SkankingElf
03-02-2007, 08:37 PM
Hi all,
I recently built myself a gaming rig. These are the components:
- intel duo core E6700
- EVGA nforce 680i SLI
- BFG Geforce 8800 GTX (768MB GDDR3)
- OCZ 4x1GB dual channel SLI ready RAM
- Ultra 550 Watt power supply
- 1x Western Digital 160 GB SATA 16mb cache HDD
- 1x Seagate 400GB SATA 16mb cache HDD
- Creative Lab Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer
- Ultra 550W SLI ready power supply
- windows vista 32-bit Home premium
- D-link wireless card (N-rangebooster)
I was able to assemble it with no problems. Vista was instaled with no difficulties. At the time I had not instaled the 400gb HDD. When i tried to install it, the computer started but crashed after the windows loading screen. I then removed all connections to it and restarted my computer it got to the desktop but I keep getting the following problems:
- Computer often locks-up (screen freezes and nothig responds) at random (either executing a task or when idle) forcing a manual restart. Often, it freezes just after the load screen before geting to the windows desktop. Whenever i get the freeze, the HDD light on the front of my PC tunrs off.
- Hardware managment (windows utility) does not detect any hardware malfunction.
- No problems seem to occur while in safe mode.
- SB sound card and motherboard built in sound card produce a choppy, poor quality sound.
- I cannot access the full fuctionality of windows vista home premium (no aero view, pretty much a classical view as a matter of fact)
- Can not connect to my home wireless network or to the internet. I was pnly able to gain access by physicaly connecting my router to the motherboard's built in LAN ports.
- Also I instaled rainbow 6 Vegas to see if the computer could run a game. The game instaled but for some reason it does not detect my processor when i try to launch it(might be that the game is not compatible with vista, who knows?). I instaled another game (Neverwinter nights 2) and it seems to work decently.
I downloaded the new drivers for my hardware via my laptop and instaled them, so that's not it. I also spent about 3 hours on the phone with a microsoft engineer thinking that vista might be the problem. So far, he is as stumped as me. He suggested I remove 2 plates of ram because of a known bug, so I did and yet it did not change anything.
If anybody can help this poor owner of a very expensive paper weight of a PC, please do!
I recently built myself a gaming rig. These are the components:
- intel duo core E6700
- EVGA nforce 680i SLI
- BFG Geforce 8800 GTX (768MB GDDR3)
- OCZ 4x1GB dual channel SLI ready RAM
- Ultra 550 Watt power supply
- 1x Western Digital 160 GB SATA 16mb cache HDD
- 1x Seagate 400GB SATA 16mb cache HDD
- Creative Lab Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer
- Ultra 550W SLI ready power supply
- windows vista 32-bit Home premium
- D-link wireless card (N-rangebooster)
I was able to assemble it with no problems. Vista was instaled with no difficulties. At the time I had not instaled the 400gb HDD. When i tried to install it, the computer started but crashed after the windows loading screen. I then removed all connections to it and restarted my computer it got to the desktop but I keep getting the following problems:
- Computer often locks-up (screen freezes and nothig responds) at random (either executing a task or when idle) forcing a manual restart. Often, it freezes just after the load screen before geting to the windows desktop. Whenever i get the freeze, the HDD light on the front of my PC tunrs off.
- Hardware managment (windows utility) does not detect any hardware malfunction.
- No problems seem to occur while in safe mode.
- SB sound card and motherboard built in sound card produce a choppy, poor quality sound.
- I cannot access the full fuctionality of windows vista home premium (no aero view, pretty much a classical view as a matter of fact)
- Can not connect to my home wireless network or to the internet. I was pnly able to gain access by physicaly connecting my router to the motherboard's built in LAN ports.
- Also I instaled rainbow 6 Vegas to see if the computer could run a game. The game instaled but for some reason it does not detect my processor when i try to launch it(might be that the game is not compatible with vista, who knows?). I instaled another game (Neverwinter nights 2) and it seems to work decently.
I downloaded the new drivers for my hardware via my laptop and instaled them, so that's not it. I also spent about 3 hours on the phone with a microsoft engineer thinking that vista might be the problem. So far, he is as stumped as me. He suggested I remove 2 plates of ram because of a known bug, so I did and yet it did not change anything.
If anybody can help this poor owner of a very expensive paper weight of a PC, please do!