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old timer · 06-08-2006, 04:11 AM

Personally, I would favor the bad sector theory. If the sector(s) going bad are only in the area where OOTP is being installed to, it wouldn't affect any other program. Perhaps in time, if you removed OOTP and installed some other programs, they would also fail, but unless that happens, the only way to know for sure is scan your hard disk for bad sectors.

If the problem were AMD related I would expect a lot more people to be having similar problems. I have an AMD system and have setup some HUGE test leagues with no crash problems at all.

Sometimes chkdsk won't find a problem even though a sector may be going bad, but it's worth trying anyhow. You may want to try out some third party chkdsk type program. Even something free like Western Digitals diagnostic utility. Maybe you've already done this?

06-08-2006, 04:11 AM	#22
old timer Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 2,278	Personally, I would favor the bad sector theory. If the sector(s) going bad are only in the area where OOTP is being installed to, it wouldn't affect any other program. Perhaps in time, if you removed OOTP and installed some other programs, they would also fail, but unless that happens, the only way to know for sure is scan your hard disk for bad sectors. If the problem were AMD related I would expect a lot more people to be having similar problems. I have an AMD system and have setup some HUGE test leagues with no crash problems at all. Sometimes chkdsk won't find a problem even though a sector may be going bad, but it's worth trying anyhow. You may want to try out some third party chkdsk type program. Even something free like Western Digitals diagnostic utility. Maybe you've already done this? Last edited by old timer; 06-08-2006 at 04:15 AM.