We have a intermittent, vexing problem with my son's computer – dual boot Windows 7 / Mint 13.
Motherboard Asus M5A97
Processor AMD X6 1045t
RAM 2 ea. 8 GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600mhz
HDD's 1TB & 3TB Seagates
GPU Gigabyte GTX 560 (non ti)
He built an entry level gaming machine about one year ago, ran flawlessly for better part of 8 months, then apparently w/o any changes to system we are now in the second period of a week plus unable to load an OS.
Boots fine (all bios utilities are available), then chosen OS, windows or linux, will begin to load, but then stall about 10 secs or so into OS load.
Have tried the following, 1 at a time, to no avail:
* Issue seems independent of hard drive, as we have same issue loading live linux distro from USB and DVD.
* USB and DVD Linux OS's begins to load on screen then system stalls shortly into process...
* Rolled back bios to earlier version, all settings at default, same problem...
* Flashed bios to most current version, all settings at default, same problem...
*Removed 1 stick of RAM...
* Swapped RAM sticks in said slot...
* removed and replugged all SATA connections...
* removed and replugged all RAM ...
* ran mem check utilities overnight, runs fine, no errors...
We had his problem a couple of months ago, after about a week of failed diagnostics and reboots, problem went away for a couple of months, ran fine, then problem resurfaced last week.
Any suggestions are most appreciated!!
Motherboard Asus M5A97
Processor AMD X6 1045t
RAM 2 ea. 8 GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600mhz
HDD's 1TB & 3TB Seagates
GPU Gigabyte GTX 560 (non ti)
He built an entry level gaming machine about one year ago, ran flawlessly for better part of 8 months, then apparently w/o any changes to system we are now in the second period of a week plus unable to load an OS.
Boots fine (all bios utilities are available), then chosen OS, windows or linux, will begin to load, but then stall about 10 secs or so into OS load.
Have tried the following, 1 at a time, to no avail:
* Issue seems independent of hard drive, as we have same issue loading live linux distro from USB and DVD.
* USB and DVD Linux OS's begins to load on screen then system stalls shortly into process...
* Rolled back bios to earlier version, all settings at default, same problem...
* Flashed bios to most current version, all settings at default, same problem...
*Removed 1 stick of RAM...
* Swapped RAM sticks in said slot...
* removed and replugged all SATA connections...
* removed and replugged all RAM ...
* ran mem check utilities overnight, runs fine, no errors...
We had his problem a couple of months ago, after about a week of failed diagnostics and reboots, problem went away for a couple of months, ran fine, then problem resurfaced last week.
Any suggestions are most appreciated!!
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