possible PSU failure?

[wanderica]

I'll try to provide you all with as much info as I can. I bought and assembled this rig in Nov. of last year. It worked flawlessly until around June. I haven't added or upgraded anything. The problem I'm having is with Start up. I POST just fine, but if I even make it to the windows splash screen it stays there indeffinately. It never loads into windows. It also freezes when I try to boot into safe mode. I have been experiencing frequent crashes as of late, so I backed up all my data on my storage drive, and decided to reinstall windows. That didn't work either. I boot from the CD and get into windows installation. When I tell it to continue to install windows, I get a message telling me there is no disk in the drive. I know the CD-ROM reads the discs however. The last time I tried to load windows, I got the following error message:

machine_check_exception stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x8054d5f0, 0xb2000000, 0x00070f0f)

I know that one of the things this error can be caused by is poor power either from the wall itself or the PSU. I live in an older house and the plugs are 2 prong not 3 prong, so I have to use an adapter to plug in my power strip. Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to include all the info I could.

please help
wanderica

Mobo: MSI K8N SLi platinum
Processor: AMD 4400+ X2
Video: 7800 GTX
HDD: 2 x 74 GB raptor (raid 0)
Seagate 180 GB 7200.9
PSU: PC P&C 510 SLi
DVD: NEC DVD + RW
Memory: OCZ platinum DDR 400

 

[wanderica]

just wanted to update. I took everything out of the case, and hooked up only the essentials using only my storage drive as the primary HDD. When i tried to install windows, I got a message that said, "windows could not verify that there was a previous version installed on your computer. Please insert the CD and press enter to continue." The CD is in the drive, and when I press enter, I get the same message. Isn't this where you usually get prompted to format the drive??

I'm sure there is something simple that I'm overlooking, but I'm lost right now. Please Help.

wanderica

 

[wanderica]

Moved to a place where power wasn't an issue and still no improvement. I'm stumped. There must be someone out there that can help.

thanks in advance,
wanderica