Ok well my system has been running without a single hiccup since November on WinXP, which is a miracle because so far it never lasts longer then 2 weeks. Last night, I was doing FTP work and playing CoD2, nothing I don't do daily, I turn it off normally like I always do, and once it shuts down, I turn the PSU off to cut all power off, and I go to bed. In the morning I get up, turn it on, and go to the bathroom, by the time I get back it's always already at the desktop ready to roll. This morning, it wasn't, it was loading XP still, but the loading bar was moving slowly, freezing every so often. I let it continue for 4 hours, knowing full well there was something wrong but hoping it was just having a bad day. Saddened, I reboot it, select "Last Known Good Config" and I get the same thing, reboot again, I select Safe Mode, and it starts loading, and then gets stuck on loading kernel something. Stays like that for 5 hours. I reboot again, pop in the WinXP CD, hoping that a repair install will save my rump. After it loads, it stays for a long time on "reading information" and then goes to the screen where it asks, repair console or install windows, so I do install, and then it starts examining my disk, and just hangs there. "Examining <Mbs amount> at disk 0 at id 0 at bus 0 on atapi..." I got past it once, but then it hung on "detecting previous windows installations" I had three other HDs on there, one with Vista, and another with XP as well. None of them will boot up, the Vista one will stay at a black screen, and the WinXP one will just keep loading XP forever (with the bar thing going at normal speed). I had some spare (100% working) RAM, and I popped mine out, and put those in, hoping it was a RAM problem, but it does the same thing. I tried a different PSU as well, no go. I put the HDs into another computer and did a disk check on them, and they all diagnosed healthy and 100% working, but I can't boot from them on other computer either (they all do the same thing as on mine) I'm getting desperate... >.>
Got a repair install going... it's going soooooooooo slow though.. and it's a SATA drive.. It's been copying the Setup files for 3 hours now and it's only at 28%
Since you've ruled out the PSU, RAM, and HDD's... I suspect it's the mobo on its way out? But do you have another graphics card you can throw in, just to rule it out as well? The only other option, is to haul everything out, and re-install it all again on a different mobo (borrow [a known working] one, if you don't have one yourself)
I gave it one last try today, and I ripped out all extra hardware other then mobo, cpu, ram, cpu, 1 dvd drive, 1 hd and video card. And I tried doing another repair install, and it's been progressing much faster then last night, though not as fast as it should, but it's a good sign. I shall update when and if the repair process is successful. I think it was either my sound card (Live 24bit from Creative) or my TV Tuner card. Whats good is that if it's my sound card, my Xfi just came in so yey Thanks for the reply though
Ok, I figured out the problem... CPU is constantly maxed at 100%... How do I fix this? Edit: What's interesting is that I can touch my CPU fan and it's midly warm Edit: TAT says the CPU is running at -44 degrees
Whoa...I say mobo problem, not necessarily the processor itself. If it's reporting your CPU as running -44 degrees...yeah it's you'r mobo. If your other computer's mobo is the same socket type as your current one, try switching out your CPU just to rule it out, and if everything's all fine and dandy, replace your motherboard.
