thats some bad luck there Bevo, hopefully you sorted it now tho.
Nope, seems to be happening again this morning
sigh.
ed: reinstalling windows... then onto switching PSUs
double ed: Stable as of fresh install... hopefully that's the last of that.
sigh.
ed: reinstalling windows... then onto switching PSUs
double ed: Stable as of fresh install... hopefully that's the last of that.
Last edited by Bevo (2010-04-17 10:55:21)
Told ya.Bevo wrote:
Nope, seems to be happening again this morning
sigh.
ed: reinstalling windows... then onto switching PSUs
double ed: Stable as of fresh install... hopefully that's the last of that.
touch wood.
Not quickly enough it seems.Finray wrote:
Told ya.
touch wood.
Sigh.
I guess I'll switch out PSUs.
Switching out PSUs yielded a working boot - but now it beeps twice every 3-4 seconds, which my manual indicates is a CMOS settings error. I went into BIOS and loaded the optimized defaults, that didn't work. Then I removed the battery and reset the CMOS manually. That didn't work.
Aside from the incessant beeping it appears to be normal. It beeps even after windows has loaded.
Aside from the incessant beeping it appears to be normal. It beeps even after windows has loaded.
Have you tried updating your BIOS? I recently built a new system and had some weird errors. Updatnig from BIOS version F5 to F6 solved every issue I had.
Tried to but apparently it's not compatible with 64bit
jesus this cant ever be easy can it
jesus this cant ever be easy can it
WTFBevo wrote:
Tried to but apparently it's not compatible with 64bit
lol, I downloaded their utility and it's up to date already. The only other option is a beta.
If it were me I'd give the beta a go. Looking on their site it seems to be getting a bit old now, which *may* indicate a stable version.
I'm gonna reconnect my new PSU and see what happens.
Last edited by Bevo (2010-04-18 12:14:18)
At this point i would test the ram individually in each slot for at least one full pass... That will rule out if its the mobo or the ram. If its neither.. then disconnect everything except essentials. Gradually add components untill you begin to face errors and crashes again. You need to isolate teh problem more here bevo, its a hardware issue for sure... like we said earlier, but the name in the game is process of elimination... It can be quite tedious, believe me.
That's just the thing though, it's not consistent. I just put my new PSU back in, booted it up, and it's been fine for the past hour. No issues to speak of. The only way to test is on a long term basis because the errors aren't constant.SonderKommando wrote:
At this point i would test the ram individually in each slot for at least one full pass... That will rule out if its the mobo or the ram. If its neither.. then disconnect everything except essentials. Gradually add components untill you begin to face errors and crashes again. You need to isolate teh problem more here bevo, its a hardware issue for sure... like we said earlier, but the name in the game is process of elimination... It can be quite tedious, believe me.
I think all we've done is eliminated the PSU as a cause of the issue, not witholding that both could be bad. I still think its your motherbaord or most likely your memory.Bevo wrote:
That's just the thing though, it's not consistent. I just put my new PSU back in, booted it up, and it's been fine for the past hour. No issues to speak of. The only way to test is on a long term basis because the errors aren't constant.SonderKommando wrote:
At this point i would test the ram individually in each slot for at least one full pass... That will rule out if its the mobo or the ram. If its neither.. then disconnect everything except essentials. Gradually add components untill you begin to face errors and crashes again. You need to isolate teh problem more here bevo, its a hardware issue for sure... like we said earlier, but the name in the game is process of elimination... It can be quite tedious, believe me.
I still wonder if it's a BIOS issue. I had a bsod when in power saving mode, Windows would hang on the loading screen, my dual core unlocked to a quad would revert itself back to a dual on reboot, even had these issues in safe mode. Updated my BIOS and all has been sweet for 2 weeks now.
I'm beginning to think it's a software issue. I'm sitting at my desktop right now, and xfire and steam friends are working, but I cannot launch any steam games or even open mozilla. The steam games "validate" instead of launching, and mozilla just gives me a crash report.
It usually crashes by about now, but for some reason hasn't. I booted it up this morning and put it into sleep before I went to class, maybe that had something to do with it..
Anyway by suggestion of one of my friends I'm downloading a Linux iso and gonna see if anything works in there...
Thoughts, advice?
It usually crashes by about now, but for some reason hasn't. I booted it up this morning and put it into sleep before I went to class, maybe that had something to do with it..
Anyway by suggestion of one of my friends I'm downloading a Linux iso and gonna see if anything works in there...
Thoughts, advice?
Start - Run
SFC /scannow
SFC /scannow
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
Cheers KCD, running now.
Erm, I stopped watching it for a second and it just disappeared.
Cannot be good.
Cannot be good.
It would give you a report if it found any missing system files.Bevo wrote:
Erm, I stopped watching it for a second and it just disappeared.
Cannot be good.
I would maybe try reinstalling your sound and video drivers... after that, I dunno. When was your last reformat/fresh inistall?
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
It disappears at 43% of validating something or other. Just goes away.King_County_Downy wrote:
It would give you a report if it found any missing system files.Bevo wrote:
Erm, I stopped watching it for a second and it just disappeared.
Cannot be good.
I would maybe try reinstalling your sound and video drivers... after that, I dunno. When was your last reformat/fresh inistall?
Just did a fresh install of windows uh, 2 days ago? This is pretty much a clean build KCD, I put it together not even a week ago
could this be an HDD issue? It seems more likely..
Last edited by Bevo (2010-04-20 11:03:35)
Very well could be.
I'd run checkdisk on it fo sho.
I'd run checkdisk on it fo sho.
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
I downloaded WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and I'm running that now. It seems to make more sense than any of the other proposed culprits.King_County_Downy wrote:
Very well could be.
I'd run checkdisk on it fo sho.
For reference, can I install windows 7 on my old HDD while I send this one off, and then put it back on my new one once I get it back?
Yeah, but there'd be no point. Best to do a fresh install.
I hate such problems.. so much!
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...show me the schematic
...show me the schematic