hello, i am hearing a click on one or both of my harddrives, then the pc freezes and eventually goes to the blue screens. sometimes when i bootup, bios doesnt find or display my hdds. sometimes just one or the other. i switch off and on a few times until it works. this booting up trouble mostly happens when its really cold. i am using my cellphone now to post this, so i cant get you the dump file. i did write down the bsod details though: stop: 0x0000007a 0xc02ffc30, 0xc000000e, 0xbff0c68e, 0x07eca860 kernel-data-inpage-error address bff0c68e base at bfe98000, datestamp 42807cdd - ntfs.sys sorry for the formatting. im typing on my cell so i dont know how itll come out. hope its readable.

Hi citizen,

What version of windows are you running on that pc?

its win 2000 pro sp4. btw, it just happened again and i had to hold in the power button to turn it off. it showed the blue screen without the instructions this time. when i turned it on again, bios said i had no hdds. it always shows everything else though, cdrw, floppy and stuff. i have an abit kr7 and amd athlon.

It sounds like one of your hard drives are dying. Can you please follow the instructions in the post below to post any minidumps of you have any. Please attach them to your next post or let me know if there aren't any.

http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-x...eath-here.html

i only have one 1001 event and its from before i had any trouble. my pc battery is dead so the date goes back to jan 1, 2001 everytime i turn it on. that makes the whole event viewer useless. if both hdds take turns disappearing, how can it be one hdd dying? i could understand if the master died and it made the secondary disappear also, but in my case, the secondary drive is disappearing while the master remains and sometimes the master disappears and the secondary remains. thats why i thought it was something loose on the Motherboard, or possibly the power supply. please correct me about the double hdd failure thing if im wrong. btw i dont have the internet so i cant attach any files. i am doing this on my cellphone.

Well, this sounds like a bit of a problem. Is this a laptop? If it is, follow these instructions. I have had this problem as well on both of my laptops. This solution may sound funny but just take out the battery. Keep it out for 30 seconds and dissconnect the charger from the back of the computer. If this is a desktop, then I have no clue :P