New computer problem

[Lucifers_Ghost]

*sigh* If its not one thing, its another.

Ok, so I got my booting problem fixed with regards to my optical drives. I also fixed my BT problem. It WAS Zone Alarm. I now have Kerio and its amazing. Im downloading quickly again and no errors / cutting off downloads. So first and foremost, thank you to everyone who is reading this and who helped :P

Soooo now I have a new problem. On Thursday, I was downloading 4 different BT files. I needed to check my email on hotmail real quick so I did. The computer bogged waaaaaay down and was taking forever to do anything (its a P3-733 with 512meg of ram .. not the greatest but my other computer is at my dads). So, I did a control alt delete and nothing happened. I did a cold shut down by just hitting the power button. I waited about 15 minutes then booted back up. It took about 45 minutes to boot. When it finally did, it was obviously to slow to do anything. So I shut it down. I left it until Friday evening. I tried to boot and I got a "ntoskernel.exe file is corrupt or missing" error during the boot (even before the XP splash screen). It said to reinstall it but I couldnt do anything so I couldnt install it. So, I turned it off and unplugged everything. Turned off the power bar, unplugged the tower, unplugged the power from all the drives, took out the memory. I thought maybe this would reset everything. I left it for a day and a half. Booted it up and got a blue screen saying "Kernel_data_input_page" error and at the bottom it said "beginning physical memory dump." So, I decided to just format and get it over with. I started to format the drive and after 2.5 hours (I watched Braveheart), my c drive (a 10 gig Western Digital) was only 3% formatted.

What the hell is all this about?

Can anyone help me on this?

LG

[BJ_M]

your drive or the motherboard sounds like it packed it in

[offline]

In the old days we would be replacing your IDE card and seeing if
that was the problem. With built in IDE, the mainboard may have
to be checked.

The only other thing that might cause this is a bad +5 power connection
(rare) or blanked cmos (rare as most p3's autoboot default ideal settings)

Like BJ_M said.. something along the lines of mainboard talking to
harddrive if not the drive itself.

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Hmmm ... ok. So how can I test either or to find out which one is it (mainboard or HD)?

[BJ_M]

swap in a different hard drive and see what happens

[Lucifers_Ghost]

oh yeah .. duh! Sorry, not thinking right now. Im at work :P