Hi all,
To make a long story short,
I upgraded my system about six months ago and had a number of issues with the build, so I went through an exhausting RMA process. The end result was that I was still left without a machine that was able to POST. So I basically left it sitting on my bedroom floor for months until I finally tackled the problem again and got it working fine last week.
About three days after I got my computer working, I suddenly encountered an excessively long boot time (of about 5 1/2 minutes). I'm using 32 bit Vista and it runs fine until it gets past the loading bar, at which time it sits there at a black screen until finally loading.
My cd-rom drive encountered problems simultaneously. It is still being detected, but won't read discs anymore. A run through event viewer informed me that the drive had bad blocks, and I have had dirty discs in it before, so perhaps that is the issue.
My question is, what could have caused the sudden boot issue?
My system still runs fine without any crashes, freezes or lockups. It is not overheating, and I have independently tested the cpu, ram, and video card. The motherboard shows no signs of problems, and functions very well. I have not tested the power supply with a DMM yet, but I see no reason to suspect that it may be the culprit. I have checked all connectors, done system restore, set both cores to work on boot up via msconfig, etc. None of it has worked.
Also, certain tasks are problematic when I finally do boot. The recycle bin, for instance, takes longer than usual to load. IE7 also crashes 85% of the time, and a few games just flat out refuse to run, even with cracked executables.
I'm going to try a reformat later because event viewer informed me that numerous win updates after service pack 1 had issues. But I have had other hard drives die on me before. Prior to this, I had sudden lock ups on other hard drives, followed by data loss, having the "no operating system" error, as well as blue screens.
My system specs are:
AM2 6000+ dual 3.0ghz
2 GB corsair XMS DDR2 pc-6400
Gigabyte GA-m57-sli-s4 (s-series) motherboard
lite-on DVD-RW drive
80 gig western digital sata drive @7200rpm
750 rosewill extreme psu
8800 GTS 640mb pci-e non-sli video card (by BFG tech)
Thanks everyone!
Any answers would be appreciated.
To make a long story short,
I upgraded my system about six months ago and had a number of issues with the build, so I went through an exhausting RMA process. The end result was that I was still left without a machine that was able to POST. So I basically left it sitting on my bedroom floor for months until I finally tackled the problem again and got it working fine last week.
About three days after I got my computer working, I suddenly encountered an excessively long boot time (of about 5 1/2 minutes). I'm using 32 bit Vista and it runs fine until it gets past the loading bar, at which time it sits there at a black screen until finally loading.
My cd-rom drive encountered problems simultaneously. It is still being detected, but won't read discs anymore. A run through event viewer informed me that the drive had bad blocks, and I have had dirty discs in it before, so perhaps that is the issue.
My question is, what could have caused the sudden boot issue?
My system still runs fine without any crashes, freezes or lockups. It is not overheating, and I have independently tested the cpu, ram, and video card. The motherboard shows no signs of problems, and functions very well. I have not tested the power supply with a DMM yet, but I see no reason to suspect that it may be the culprit. I have checked all connectors, done system restore, set both cores to work on boot up via msconfig, etc. None of it has worked.
Also, certain tasks are problematic when I finally do boot. The recycle bin, for instance, takes longer than usual to load. IE7 also crashes 85% of the time, and a few games just flat out refuse to run, even with cracked executables.
I'm going to try a reformat later because event viewer informed me that numerous win updates after service pack 1 had issues. But I have had other hard drives die on me before. Prior to this, I had sudden lock ups on other hard drives, followed by data loss, having the "no operating system" error, as well as blue screens.
My system specs are:
AM2 6000+ dual 3.0ghz
2 GB corsair XMS DDR2 pc-6400
Gigabyte GA-m57-sli-s4 (s-series) motherboard
lite-on DVD-RW drive
80 gig western digital sata drive @7200rpm
750 rosewill extreme psu
8800 GTS 640mb pci-e non-sli video card (by BFG tech)
Thanks everyone!
Any answers would be appreciated.
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