A few days ago I was organizing folders with photos in them, moving them to another location to keep them in order. One folder, with nothing inside having it all copied, would not delete - it was being used by another program. I've had this happen before, so I restarted the system via the start menu. When my computer went through the POST, it gave a beep error code as it had done 8 months ago; one long beep followed by three short beeps. It was a video problem before, and a new video card solved it. A new video card did not solve my problem this time.
As for my specs, I'm running an nVidia nForce4 SLI x16 motherboard, 1gb ram (two 512mb), XFX 256mb GeForce 8600GT, and two 160GB RAID0 SATA HDs. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition. I have not replaced the RAM, CPU, or motherboard since I received my machine in February of 2006.
The new card I tried was a GeForce 8800GT. When I put that in my first PCI-E slot there was no beep error code, but there was still no display on my monitor.
So I tried putting my card in the second PCI-E slot. Both cards were able to run and there was a display again. However, there was a new problem that came up. Chkdsk ran and then the computer booted up. Windows started up for about 10 seconds, but before the taskbar could fully load the computer would give me the blue screen of death (bsod) before restarting, prompting the chkdsk to run again repeat ad nauseam. I had to manually stop the computer from auto-restarting to see what the bsod even said. The following is the problem (apparently):
Stop: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF78BEB74, 0xF78BE870, 0xF70F76D4)
ntfs.sys address: F70F76D4
Base at: F70E60000
Date Stamp: 45cc56a7
I read somewhere that I should set the second slot as my primary graphics slot somewhere, but I can't seem to find out where that is before the computer restarts. I'm not sure if that's the problem even.
My computer, as it stands, will not load into safe mode nor allow me any time in Windows. Right now I'm thinking that the PCI-E slot is defective or something is wrong with the motherboard. I'm trying to troubleshoot but I can't find any information on this particular problem anywhere on the web. Any help or information is greatly appreciated. Thank you.