pc problems, suggestions?

[Hicks12]

Well it would appear my PC is messing up majorly, has been working fine for awhile but today it crashed while i was just listening to music and trying to browse the web, after rebooting it froze on the windows 7 startup (little image thing) and then another boot it just took AGES too load and when i mean ages i mean like 10minutes to logon and have the system running.

I tried safemode and it seemed OK so i looked at logs and saw that an ATI service had been failing frequently on those boots so i assumed it was the new 10.3 alpha driver i installed, tried to unistall in safemode but cant as it wont launch so tried to turn system off (crashed in safe mode!). restarted and managed to get in to windows quickly and unistalled drivers, it crashed 2minutes after and again i rebooted and it seemed fine for 20minutes while browsing and listening to music but again it froze and lagged out(music started repeating) so turned off. Again i tried rebooting and running HD tune just to see if it was the drive but the system just dies after loging on now.

Any ideas on what the problem could be? Im leaning towards hard drive almost dieing as that could cause the slow loading right?. Any solutions or suggestions of things to do?.
edit: Shouldnt be any viruses as im using Nod32 and MSE and none have picked up anything and i scanned system last night before these problems.
Thanks

[jim]

My immediate thought was HD... just run chkdsk initially, see if it picks anything up.

Whenever I've had issues before there've been errors streaming down the page with scandisk so it's been fairly obvious.

Alternatively try SeaTools for Windows.

[kalniel]

But it still seems okayish in safemode? Or not?

Memtest86+ the ram, check for loosely seated connectors etc.

[Hicks12]

it crashed in safemode after me attempting to shut it down, it was only on for a few minutes as i looked at logs. Will try safe mode again after i get back.

[Hicks12]

Well i did a memtest and nothing bad,downloaded western digital tools and as soon as i start the quick test i get an error which is

Cable test: write sector error
Check your cables

Now i replaced the sata cable and also plugged it into a differet sata port and yet stil get the same error. chkdst picked up nothing also and i did just try seatools but it doesnt even pick up my drive?

SMART seems to be unreachable says WD tools, yet its enabled in the bios so any other suggestions for testing the hard drive? Need to RMA this i think .

edit: was fine in safe ode but died at the exact time i tried to open HD tune, does HD tune check the drive while its starting itself?. Aso why does my AAKS have SCSI in its name in device manager, i thought it was a Sata drive or am i being silly?>

[Hicks12]

OK the cable thing seems to be a fault with the progra (found out on the support forums ). However after doing a test with hard disk sentinel it didnt pick up any bad sectors (although some at the start and end were a dark colour which ment they went the best but not damaged etc).

SMART reads as fine, looking at comparisons though i dont think my drives doing that great http://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinf...000008000051B6

The second to last test (Ultra ATA CRC Error Count) seemed to be terrible compared to average, mine being 667 compared to average user 29.91. Is this something to worry about?