Well I just put together my new rig:
Athlon64 3000+
MSI K8N NEO Platinum
Corsair XL
Radeon 9800pro
Raptor 74gb
Fortron 550w psu
::the following 2 items were leftovers from old comp::
Plextor 24x burner
IBM 40gb
I set everything up (damn that slk948u is a bitch to install), install windows, start screwing around with updates and crap, and have the thing hardfreeze on me. for no reason. Screwing around, it does it again and again, sometimes doing weird things like getting stuck in reboot loops where it will post, go to boot off hd, and then reboot, until I play with the HD settings in bios (disable/reenable etc). Eventually I suspected SATA drivers, and installed the system IDE only, which seemed to work fine. Then I did SATA only, which seemed to work fine (although I could have just gotten lucky and it didn't freeze). Then after I got the system all set up with windows installed on the raptor and the IDE drive disabled (aim installed, service pack 1, etc pretty much all the basic comp steps, yes aim before service pack 1), i reenable IDE and continue to work. all seems fine and dandy, but like 15 mins later it decides to hard freeze on me again. Quick reboot solved the problem.
By hardfreeze I mean the mouse stops dead in it's tracks and keyboard/mouse stop responding to anything. no bluescreen or nothing; everything just stops. A quick pop of the reset button fixes it.
I'm using latest nforce3 drivers from nvidia.com, latest ati drivers from ati.com, and I have the latest msi bios (v 1.1). From this point I don't know what to do.
Athlon64 3000+
MSI K8N NEO Platinum
Corsair XL
Radeon 9800pro
Raptor 74gb
Fortron 550w psu
::the following 2 items were leftovers from old comp::
Plextor 24x burner
IBM 40gb
I set everything up (damn that slk948u is a bitch to install), install windows, start screwing around with updates and crap, and have the thing hardfreeze on me. for no reason. Screwing around, it does it again and again, sometimes doing weird things like getting stuck in reboot loops where it will post, go to boot off hd, and then reboot, until I play with the HD settings in bios (disable/reenable etc). Eventually I suspected SATA drivers, and installed the system IDE only, which seemed to work fine. Then I did SATA only, which seemed to work fine (although I could have just gotten lucky and it didn't freeze). Then after I got the system all set up with windows installed on the raptor and the IDE drive disabled (aim installed, service pack 1, etc pretty much all the basic comp steps, yes aim before service pack 1), i reenable IDE and continue to work. all seems fine and dandy, but like 15 mins later it decides to hard freeze on me again. Quick reboot solved the problem.
By hardfreeze I mean the mouse stops dead in it's tracks and keyboard/mouse stop responding to anything. no bluescreen or nothing; everything just stops. A quick pop of the reset button fixes it.
I'm using latest nforce3 drivers from nvidia.com, latest ati drivers from ati.com, and I have the latest msi bios (v 1.1). From this point I don't know what to do.
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