About a year ago I installed Nero Burning ROM, this was on Win98, and my system corrupt. 
I would reboot , it would lock, then say reg was corrupt, kept doing it, I finally 
found out the cause. A conflict with the drivers for my SCSI scanner... Sold it on 
eBay, systems been fine since.





On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:13 am, RhoXS wrote:
>I loaded XP using a clean install starting with a cleanly formatted drive. Everything 
>seemed well for about four weeks. During this period I was impressed with the crisp 
>trouble free operation of XP. Suddenly, the system locked up. When rebooting, Scandisk 
>found a very large number of cross linked files. So many files were lost that it 
>was necessary to rebuild the system, again with a clean install. Due to backups, 
>I was able to recover almost all my data. Within a day or so the system crashed 
again 
>but this time the problem was a corrupted Hive or registry file. At this point, 
I 
>then found that everytime I rebuilt the system, it would crash within a day or so 
>as a resuilt of either a large number of crosslinked files or a corrupted hive/registry 
>file.
>
>I suspected a bad HDD and replaced it (60 Gig IBM). This did not solve the problem 
>so I replaced the Abit P3V4X mobo with an ASUS ST6. Problem still not solved. After 
>two weeks of frustration I finally called Microsoft and paid $35.00 for a pay for 
>support call (an excellent service). After much troubleshooting we discovered that 
>one of my expansion cards, an Adaptec 2910 SCSI card, was not on Microsoft's compatibility 
>list. The technician also had a body of circumstantial evidence in his database, 
>from other calls, that this card could cause similar problems. I replaced it with 
>a 2930 (a compatible card per both Microsoft & Adaptec). This seemed to solve the 
>problem as everything has worked fine for two weeks now.
>
>This incident really raises some red flags. A piece of hardware, not at all related 
>to the hard disk storage system, can cause corrupted files. I have to wonder if 
a 
>malfunction of a compatible card can also corrupt files.
>
>Has anyone else had similar probelms? 

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