Hello all, I recently put together this new build and it has been very frustrating from the first moment, not sure why.
After putting it all together, i attempted to install WinXP, which it did but upon starting for the first time it froze during the load of the desktop (hourglass froze). I restarted it and it ran fine, i assumed it was just a random bug...I started to load drivers and randomly it just restarted on its own. I tried again and it did the same things at different times. I reinstalled windows again with the latest Bios and the same sort of thing happened at various places and times (usually within 10min of boot).
I tried loading Vista thinking maybe it would react differently or that my XP disc was bad. Same thing happened. I have tried another power supply already thinking it was the problem, i have reseated the RAM and CPU and video card already. The only thing that possibly had some effect was adjusting the RAM timings manually. I have ram MemTest for 15 hours with no errors ?
Regardless though the system randomly restarts and or freezes and various times, not sure...more ram timing stuff ? ? ?
Specs:
MSI X58 PRO
2.6 Intel Core I7
4GB DDR3 Patriot Viper (PC3-10666 - 1333MHz)
Hitachi 1TB SATA HD
Evga Nvidia 260
OCZ 600W PSU
Advice, Thoughts Please ...
Pete
After putting it all together, i attempted to install WinXP, which it did but upon starting for the first time it froze during the load of the desktop (hourglass froze). I restarted it and it ran fine, i assumed it was just a random bug...I started to load drivers and randomly it just restarted on its own. I tried again and it did the same things at different times. I reinstalled windows again with the latest Bios and the same sort of thing happened at various places and times (usually within 10min of boot).
I tried loading Vista thinking maybe it would react differently or that my XP disc was bad. Same thing happened. I have tried another power supply already thinking it was the problem, i have reseated the RAM and CPU and video card already. The only thing that possibly had some effect was adjusting the RAM timings manually. I have ram MemTest for 15 hours with no errors ?
Regardless though the system randomly restarts and or freezes and various times, not sure...more ram timing stuff ? ? ?
Specs:
MSI X58 PRO
2.6 Intel Core I7
4GB DDR3 Patriot Viper (PC3-10666 - 1333MHz)
Hitachi 1TB SATA HD
Evga Nvidia 260
OCZ 600W PSU
Advice, Thoughts Please ...
Pete