First, here is a list of my current configuration:
Abit IP-35 Motherboard
CD2 4500 - using factory HSF
2 x 1 Gig Kingston PC26400 ValueRAM
EVGA 256 Meg 7600GT PCIE
Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB SATA HD
Samsung 20X SH-S203B SATA DVDRW
Windows Vista 32 Ultimate
Antec Earthwatts 430 Watt PSU
Cooler Master Centurion 532 RC-532 Case
I built the system in late December of last year, and instead of having the Samsung HD and 7600GT I was using an MSI 8500GT and a Western Digital 160 GIG ATA HD. Later I ended up switching out the video card and harddrive, and it worked fine for the first few weeks after installing the new harddrive.
The first problems I started to encounter were random Explorer hangs that happened when I would try to go to Control Panel or Windows Explorer. Then I noticed hangs when I would try to load my Steam Games such as Half-Life 2. The Valve logo would load, and then Vista would tell me the program was not responding, to which I'd tell it to wait and then the game would launch fine.
Then later I noticed that when I tried to start games, they would begin to load, then I would be right back at the desktop, with the game minimized and still running.
I began to look through the Event Logs and noticed NTFS errors on the C partition. Looking at Microsoft's KB, I did what they recommended and that was to run a command (I now have forgotten which one it was), and it came up telling me my NTFS was dirty. After I rebooted Chkdsk ran and it corrected the problems.
I also ran Samsung's HD utility, and it found no errors as well.
About a day later I started running into the random Explorer and game hangs, and ran another Chkdks, but this time it didn't find any errors. So I decided to run Memtest86+ from a floppy, and my memory checked out fine with no errors.
I then tried playing the Half-Life 2 Coast download, and when I was playing it I noticed that I was able to walk through buildings, and had extreme texture tearing. Frustrated I went ahead and reformated and reinstalled Vista.
Vista installed fine, and afterwards I tried installing the drivers for the onboard Marvell Ethernet controller and the system did a complete hang, which was the first time I'd seen that happen. I then rebooted the computer, and it hung at the ABIT logo for a good thirty minutes, then it finally booted.
My voltages and temps in Bios all seem to look fine to me, and I've run Memtest again and found no errors.
So, I'm really stuck as to what's going on here. I'm leaning towards a problem with the Memory or Harddrive, but yet again every time I run diagnostics on them they come up fine.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Should In include more information?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Abit IP-35 Motherboard
CD2 4500 - using factory HSF
2 x 1 Gig Kingston PC26400 ValueRAM
EVGA 256 Meg 7600GT PCIE
Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB SATA HD
Samsung 20X SH-S203B SATA DVDRW
Windows Vista 32 Ultimate
Antec Earthwatts 430 Watt PSU
Cooler Master Centurion 532 RC-532 Case
I built the system in late December of last year, and instead of having the Samsung HD and 7600GT I was using an MSI 8500GT and a Western Digital 160 GIG ATA HD. Later I ended up switching out the video card and harddrive, and it worked fine for the first few weeks after installing the new harddrive.
The first problems I started to encounter were random Explorer hangs that happened when I would try to go to Control Panel or Windows Explorer. Then I noticed hangs when I would try to load my Steam Games such as Half-Life 2. The Valve logo would load, and then Vista would tell me the program was not responding, to which I'd tell it to wait and then the game would launch fine.
Then later I noticed that when I tried to start games, they would begin to load, then I would be right back at the desktop, with the game minimized and still running.
I began to look through the Event Logs and noticed NTFS errors on the C partition. Looking at Microsoft's KB, I did what they recommended and that was to run a command (I now have forgotten which one it was), and it came up telling me my NTFS was dirty. After I rebooted Chkdsk ran and it corrected the problems.
I also ran Samsung's HD utility, and it found no errors as well.
About a day later I started running into the random Explorer and game hangs, and ran another Chkdks, but this time it didn't find any errors. So I decided to run Memtest86+ from a floppy, and my memory checked out fine with no errors.
I then tried playing the Half-Life 2 Coast download, and when I was playing it I noticed that I was able to walk through buildings, and had extreme texture tearing. Frustrated I went ahead and reformated and reinstalled Vista.
Vista installed fine, and afterwards I tried installing the drivers for the onboard Marvell Ethernet controller and the system did a complete hang, which was the first time I'd seen that happen. I then rebooted the computer, and it hung at the ABIT logo for a good thirty minutes, then it finally booted.
My voltages and temps in Bios all seem to look fine to me, and I've run Memtest again and found no errors.
So, I'm really stuck as to what's going on here. I'm leaning towards a problem with the Memory or Harddrive, but yet again every time I run diagnostics on them they come up fine.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Should In include more information?
Any help would be much appreciated!
