Computer hangs at crcdisk.sys

My wife did a hard shutdown on my computer and the next time I tried to start it up, it hung at the Microsoft screen. I tried in safe mode and it loaded to \drivers\crcdisk.sys and hung there. I then tried to do a reinstall from a windows disk, same problem. I then changed to a new hard drive and it loaded and worked for about 3 days. The same problem happened again. I have now tried a clean install on 3 hard drives no luck. I checked my memory by removing all but 1 stick, dissembled everything and put in a new case, I was going to do that anyway, and checked all connections. Could this be a motherboard or processor problem? Hardware? fyi, I was running vista 64 on nvidia mb, core 2 duo, 4 gig ram. Thanks

 

It appears that the motherboard is failing (to be precise, it's the drive controller on the motherboard that is failing). Have you tried using new drive cables? It may not help, but a new set of cables is cheaper than a new motherboard. It might also be a bad power supply; if the hard drives don't have a steady, even, clean source of power, they wouldn't read and write data correctly.... and, yes, the CPU could be bad, but CPUs fail so rarely that I doubt that this is the problem. Besides, if it was a bad CPU, I'd think the problems would start right away, and not after about 3 days....

 

I did a bit of research... my post above still sticks, but here's some other stuff to look at:
http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=crcdisk.sys
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...s/thread/8b95be75-dc9f-4de3-b8db-3e1811899ce6
http://social.technet.microsoft.com.../thread/a2ed1ff1-3c60-4cfd-ac4e-72f22b180093/
And I found this statement at a site that would not allow me to link to it:

So hopefully something here will help. However, from what you said in your first post, I still think the motherboard or power supply is at fault. The fact that it worked OK for a short time before the exact same problem started again tells me that it is a hardware problem that is intermittent but is slowly getting worse.