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Probable Solution: I had the same problem but just read someone else's post about a grounding issue. I had too many "risers"? Those little heagonal things you screw into the case to lift the MOBO up. One of them was grounding out the MOBO. Check yours. Mine booted fine outside the case...

Home built nforce 4, Opteron 175, 3.25 GB ram I have Vista Ultimate on one HD (It Ultimately SUCKS) (I ultimately have driver problems with my scanner and I have to settle for Ultimately generic drivers for everything else) and XP on one Hd because I have no choice at this point! I used to...

This may work...I recently read that the live Linux Distros were made to recover data from failed hard drives. These Distros run in RAM so just get any live Distro, run it in your DVD drive. It will take a while to load but once it does you will have a fully funtional PC. At this point you...

Ditto: I have 3 hard drives, one with Vista 32 bit. On occasion it refuses to shut down. I don't believe this is a problem with Vista as much as configuration, drivers, hardware and my MBR. I had Linux, XP and Vista running perfectly for a while until I monkeyed too much. Then out of the...

If you've figured out the problem, let me know. Here's what I figured out. I have Vista 32 bit. I added 2 gig RAM for a total of 4 gig, I knew it would only recognize 3.25 gig. Anyway, everything was flying...almost too fast...but when I re-booted it refused to start up even from the DVD. I...