Hello nice shiny bit-tech people, i came home last night to find that my pc wont boot or shutdown properly and crashes when it tries to do a scan of the C: drive, be it virus or spyware. After a w/e of gaming to forget the stresses of work i shut down my pc, which is not something i normally do, as i couldn't be bothered to start my torrents after playing online. Then after a much less stressful day at work i try and boot my pc to do a little work on my case design only to find it gets stuck at the win xp screen with the silly whooshy bar for 10 min. Normally i have my pc booted and all the apps i'm gonna use open within about 5 so this wasn't normal. So i reset and try again as it can sometimes be a bit temperamental due to the OC. I get nowt, still stuck in the same place. I then remove the OC and reset back to stock clocks and try again, still stuck. After the reset this time tho i'm confronted with the black "windows did not load" screen, so i try and start in safe mode. And it does. Having no idea whats wrong i try and shut down and restart again as this has sometimes fixed a similar problem. It goes to shut down, kills explorer etc but then i'm left with a black screen and my mouse on it which i can wave around to my hearts delight and thats it. No keyboard control for a quick CAD and reset. So incredibly pissed off by this point i kill the power on the PSU. Dont know why just did. After having dinner and calming down i turn the power back on try again and windows boots up first time. WTF!? Ignoring this and thinking its some good luck i do a virus scan to see if i've picked up something nasty as i dont know what to do. Half way through the C:\ scan my music stops and my PC locks up. Mouse still moves just nothing responds, so i wait and wait but then get pissed off and reset. Again the pc goes through the whole stuck at win xp screen, so i try safe mode but that now gets stuck after loading ...\mup.sys. Frustrated i turn off the PSU again and try again. Viola, PC boots first time. Wondering if its some weird problem with AVG i try a spybot scan and that crashes it. PSU trick again and see if its a cpu load issue or HDD activity thats crashing so i ask winamp to scan the music drive and then anaylyse all the tracks with musicip, thats fine. But then again my music is on my E:\ drive partition and may even be on a totally separate drive, cant remember sorry been a while since i set up all the partitions. After it completing this i do a bit of work, listen to some music, play some overlord watch a film and go to bed, forgetting i have a 3am virus scan scheduled I wake up this mornig to find a nice locked up PC so i figure i'll give you guys a go. My specs are: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo AMD x2 3800+ 2x512mb Corsair 5400 xms2 (i think) 2x samsung 250gb drives 8800 gts from evga linksys wifi card hiper 350w psu Think thats all the info you need, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
your using a 350W PSU with an 8800 GTS? I'd say the PSU is your problem. You must be running pretty close to the limit. The requirements for that videocard is .... Requirements Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply. (Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps.) She canna take it captain.
i agree with bungle here a 350 Watt power supply strained it to the limit. I was surprised that it actually ran 8800 Gts in some cases when they try to place it wit a 8800 Gts in cases blew up a internal fuse or the wattage keeps spiking have u ever heard he fan going high speed then low? and happens every time? that's cause the power supply is strain that goodness you didn't put these bad boys in SLI but i have to say very good card =]
ok turns out i was wrong about the PSU, its a 435, found the paperwork lastnight whilst i was debating reinstalling windows. Am not very good at remembering little details like that sorry, This pretty one Well what ever the problem is its gonna have to wait as i'm off to the US for two weeks on friday. Might grab a cheap copy of vista ultimate and install that on it when i get home and see if that does the job. If not, will come back to you guys with the new symptoms.
Still, with the symptoms your describing, I would still think about investigating the PSU. I've had a few problems with supply rails in the past and it can make you run around in circles with all the random crashes etc. If you have a spare or can borrow one to install. Would be worth doing. Just for peace of mind.
