My first board had major issues in Bios. I was getting cmos errors every other boot. Sometimes I wouldnt have a live moniter, sometimes I would. I could NOT install an Audigy 2 card no matter what... Tried 4 times in every pci slot. Finally rma'ed.
Then I get the new board and here is where I am...
Asus A8N Sli Deluxe 1003.08
AMD 3500+ 939 winchester 1.425 volts
Mushkin pc3200 222 special 512x2 2.85 volts
PNY 6600GT pci-E
WD 74gig raptor
PC power and cooling 510 deluxe
I dont even know where to begin...
I came home today and started surfing my usual spots... About 20-30 minutes my moniter blinks and my comp freezes up for a second or 2. Seemed odd so I rebooted. Everything was fine up until I get another freeze. At that point I start thinking about chages ive made in the last day or 2. I narrow it down to my video card drivers. I was using the latest beta drivers and decided id go back to the Nvidia 66.93s. I installed the drivers and reboot...
Windows xp goes into Scan disk and starts deleting files and something mentioned "deleting orphaned" files or something like that. Scan disk finishes and reboots. Windows XP logo comes up and my system reboots in cycles at the Windows XP logo everytime! At this point, im thinking hardware... I check everything, reseat cards, try 1 stick of ram yadda yadda... SAME THING.
I try getting in safe mode- No dice! Frozen!
ok, I toss in my xp disk to reformat and start over... I get to the agreement F8 and guess what! BSOD!
REGISTRY_ERROR
I then tried this... My hard drive came with a WD utlity disk. I booted from the cd and wiped out the drive using the WD utlity. Now... I can get past the darn agreement page!
I did a full format and installed a fresh copy of windows... while I was grabbing my creative drivers... I got a system hang again!
Sure enough, chkdsk and more registry errors.
I was able to keep the system stable for the majority of the night. I had a few reboots and hangs and eventually gave in to thinking it MUST be the hd. At one point my usb ports stopped working while loading a game. I then ran over to WD website and ran a test to search for bad sectors, errors, etc. Passed a quick test and the extended test with no problems. I am about to throw this thing off my roof guys, keep the help coming.
At the moment im formating an older PATA drive I have. Hopefully that will rule out some possibilities.
Then I get the new board and here is where I am...
Asus A8N Sli Deluxe 1003.08
AMD 3500+ 939 winchester 1.425 volts
Mushkin pc3200 222 special 512x2 2.85 volts
PNY 6600GT pci-E
WD 74gig raptor
PC power and cooling 510 deluxe
I dont even know where to begin...
I came home today and started surfing my usual spots... About 20-30 minutes my moniter blinks and my comp freezes up for a second or 2. Seemed odd so I rebooted. Everything was fine up until I get another freeze. At that point I start thinking about chages ive made in the last day or 2. I narrow it down to my video card drivers. I was using the latest beta drivers and decided id go back to the Nvidia 66.93s. I installed the drivers and reboot...
Windows xp goes into Scan disk and starts deleting files and something mentioned "deleting orphaned" files or something like that. Scan disk finishes and reboots. Windows XP logo comes up and my system reboots in cycles at the Windows XP logo everytime! At this point, im thinking hardware... I check everything, reseat cards, try 1 stick of ram yadda yadda... SAME THING.
I try getting in safe mode- No dice! Frozen!
ok, I toss in my xp disk to reformat and start over... I get to the agreement F8 and guess what! BSOD!
REGISTRY_ERROR
I then tried this... My hard drive came with a WD utlity disk. I booted from the cd and wiped out the drive using the WD utlity. Now... I can get past the darn agreement page!
I did a full format and installed a fresh copy of windows... while I was grabbing my creative drivers... I got a system hang again!
Sure enough, chkdsk and more registry errors.
I was able to keep the system stable for the majority of the night. I had a few reboots and hangs and eventually gave in to thinking it MUST be the hd. At one point my usb ports stopped working while loading a game. I then ran over to WD website and ran a test to search for bad sectors, errors, etc. Passed a quick test and the extended test with no problems. I am about to throw this thing off my roof guys, keep the help coming.
At the moment im formating an older PATA drive I have. Hopefully that will rule out some possibilities.