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TiniTini SlippyPARegistered User regular
edited March 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
First off here's a list of my hardware.
    CASE/ PSU
    [*]Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case w/ CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520W Power Supply

    MOBO
    [*]CHAINTECH VNF4 Ultra 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

    PROCESSOR
    [*]AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz Socket 939 Single-Core Processor Model ADA3000BPBOX

    RAM
    [*]CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model VS1GBKIT400

    VIDEO CARD
    [*]SAPPHIRE 100600L-Red Radeon X800PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

    SOUND CARD
    [*]CHAINTECH AV-512 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card

    HARD DRIVES
    [*]Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3400620AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
    [*]Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive

    CD/DVD DRIVE
    [*]NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model ND-3520A BK



    Now onto the problems...
    I built this pc a while back and was running it on my 80gb hard drive and everything was going smooth...

    I recently got my 400gb hdd and a new power supply so I installed that as the OS drive for Windows XP professional. The install went fine. I boot up windows install all my drivers and restart the computer. When the computer restarts everything looks alright, but when I go to do a simple task such as open up internet explorer or go into my computer or control panel, etc. it freezes up on me. Another thing is that it takes about 20 minutes for the computer to shutdown without me doing a forced shutdown. Any idea on whats the matter would be INCREDIBLY APPRECIATED

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    • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Test the memory, sometimes it goes bad.

      http://www.memtest86.com/

      Could of course be that your new HDD is faulty, although that's unlikely; or the new PSU, but that power supply is freakin' awesome (I have it in my computer) and I sincerely doubt that it would be busted.

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    • TiniTini Slippy PARegistered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Yeah I really doubt it's the power supply and I sure as fuck hope it's not the 400GB because when I say I recently got that I mean like back in June I got the thing... I'm just lazy with installing and didn't have a proper version of XP at the time.

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    • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Where is the 80gb drive?

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    • TiniTini Slippy PARegistered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Master 3 I believe and the 400 is in Master 2.

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    • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Did you wipe the 80g?

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    • TiniTini Slippy PARegistered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Yes. Both were wiped with no partitions when I installed windows. So I created the partition on the 400 during installation then when everything was up and running i made a partition on the 80 for storage.

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    • 1ddqd1ddqd Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Motherboard or memory fault; could be an issue with the OS disc as well, but thats much more unlikely. If you can, get a copy of Eurosoft PC Check - it's pretty comprehensive and fits on a floppy (or burn as an ISO)

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    • TiniTini Slippy PARegistered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Well then, I just decided to use the XP cd to repair the install and now everything is working perfect... hahah. That was quite stange. For once the computer shut down within 5 seconds. :D

      EDIT: Appears as though that was a one time thing... it's still freezing ahhahhah. fuck.

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    • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Like I said, try testing the memory. If you don't want to deal with Memtest, at least try each memory stick by itself to see if one of the two is broken.

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    • TiniTini Slippy PARegistered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Do I need to put memtest on a cd-rom? or...? And are you just talking about taking one stick out and bootin up?

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    • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
      edited March 2008
      Well, taking one stick out and booting up (then trying the other if it doesn't work) is a fast way to check if one of them is causing the problem. As for Memtest, yeah, you need to burn it to a CD and boot with it if you want to do a proper test for errors.

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