First my equipment:
Intel Core Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz
ASUS P5B-Plus LGA 775 Intel P965 Express
ASUS EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V
Operating System: Windows Vista 64 Ultimate
Not really looking for a build critique, unless you see some compatability issues. Let me explain what is happening:
Now here is the kicker: I didn't realize that the old computer, in which I was taking a seagate 200g drive, a wd 120gig drive, were all IDE drives. Okay minor setback I think to myself, I'll hook it on the IDE and leave off the 120 gig, that way i will use the single ide port on the mobo and just hook the seagate and the dvd burner up on it. Due to the way my case is set up, i had to do a master pin set on the dvd drive, and a cable select on the seagate.
Hooked everything up, no hitches, easy as usual. Loaded Vista 64, no problems. Logged onto windows for the first time, and set up my internet connection- good so far. Went to the Asus site, and d/l'd the latest chipset driver and installed,reboot, still fine. Went to the nvidia site, and did the same with the newest drivers, after installing, I set my res. to 1600x1200 (native res for my monitor), reboot. Everything seems ok.
Then get 117mb bundle of updates a security patches from windows update. Reboot, and everything still seems ok, although I am noticing that the ram usage is about 700mb when the system is idling, which seems high to me, but i don't know much about vista, and had heard it was a mem hog.
So then i shut down, and leave for a while, come back and switch the system on, and it will not even boot to the bios. It justs hangs on the mobo logo screen. Strange i think. Then I pop out the CMOS to reset everything, reboot, and it works, only, I get a screen saying that overclocking failed (which i didn't do....yet) and hit f1 for bios, f2 for default blah blah.
Of course i load default, and it boots right up. So I am a gamer, and i pick up the closest game to me (happened to be KOTOR2) installed it, cause i just wanted to see how it would run with the settings maxed. First couple of tests it did fine, but then the game would start hanging up, and not only in intense graphical situations, but also in the menu screens.
Exit that, go to windows, piddle around with moving some files around on my drive (data files, not system files) and I am noticing a definate sluggishness in everything I do. So I reboot, and guess what? Same thing happens with the mobo logo, it wont even go to the bios.
So I do the same thing again, pop out the cmos, and the same overclocking message comes up, system keeps getting more and more sluggish. got to the point where it wouldn't even load up kotor2.
Does anyone have any ideas about what is wrong? Help would be greatly appreciated.
Intel Core Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz
ASUS P5B-Plus LGA 775 Intel P965 Express
ASUS EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V
Operating System: Windows Vista 64 Ultimate
Not really looking for a build critique, unless you see some compatability issues. Let me explain what is happening:
Now here is the kicker: I didn't realize that the old computer, in which I was taking a seagate 200g drive, a wd 120gig drive, were all IDE drives. Okay minor setback I think to myself, I'll hook it on the IDE and leave off the 120 gig, that way i will use the single ide port on the mobo and just hook the seagate and the dvd burner up on it. Due to the way my case is set up, i had to do a master pin set on the dvd drive, and a cable select on the seagate.
Hooked everything up, no hitches, easy as usual. Loaded Vista 64, no problems. Logged onto windows for the first time, and set up my internet connection- good so far. Went to the Asus site, and d/l'd the latest chipset driver and installed,reboot, still fine. Went to the nvidia site, and did the same with the newest drivers, after installing, I set my res. to 1600x1200 (native res for my monitor), reboot. Everything seems ok.
Then get 117mb bundle of updates a security patches from windows update. Reboot, and everything still seems ok, although I am noticing that the ram usage is about 700mb when the system is idling, which seems high to me, but i don't know much about vista, and had heard it was a mem hog.
So then i shut down, and leave for a while, come back and switch the system on, and it will not even boot to the bios. It justs hangs on the mobo logo screen. Strange i think. Then I pop out the CMOS to reset everything, reboot, and it works, only, I get a screen saying that overclocking failed (which i didn't do....yet) and hit f1 for bios, f2 for default blah blah.
Of course i load default, and it boots right up. So I am a gamer, and i pick up the closest game to me (happened to be KOTOR2) installed it, cause i just wanted to see how it would run with the settings maxed. First couple of tests it did fine, but then the game would start hanging up, and not only in intense graphical situations, but also in the menu screens.
Exit that, go to windows, piddle around with moving some files around on my drive (data files, not system files) and I am noticing a definate sluggishness in everything I do. So I reboot, and guess what? Same thing happens with the mobo logo, it wont even go to the bios.
So I do the same thing again, pop out the cmos, and the same overclocking message comes up, system keeps getting more and more sluggish. got to the point where it wouldn't even load up kotor2.
Does anyone have any ideas about what is wrong? Help would be greatly appreciated.
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