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OK, I had an awesome home-built rig. One day it started hanging for like 5-10 seconds then all is well, then 20 min later same hang (everything just freezes). Kept like this for like 4 months until I finally had enough. Cracked it open and found a little chip on the Mobo (ASRock 970 Extreme 3) was fried. Got a new Mobo (long story short it took 4 Mobo's to get one that was not DOA, never buying Gigabyte again). The 4th, a new Asus Mobo, fired up and started to post as normal. Then the dreaded BSOD. Said I have a problem with a Hard drive. I decided SCREW it! Getting a New HD and gonna start fresh. Installed NEW 320GB HD, popped my Windows Disc in and fired it up, started the install process then, got the same BSOD! HD problem? What gives? Specs are as below...
Asus M5A97 R2.0 (NEW)
AMD Black Edition Quad Core
750W PSU - Good one (can't remember model)
EVGA 9800GTX
8GB (2X4GB) Corsair Vengence RAM
WD 320GB HD (NEW)
WIN XP
CD/DVD writer

I'm about to pull what's of my hair out on this one! Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
 
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I recently started thinking maybe it could be the GPU. When it would freeze for the 5-10 seconds, progress would continue, you just wouldn't see it until it "unfroze". Like, say I'm typing along, it freezes for 5 seconds, but I kept typing. When it unfroze, the words I was typing when it was frozen, suddenly appear. It's as if the "computer" knew what was going on, the GPU just wasn't displaying it.

That was my next thought. Maybe get a cheap GPU to to pop in and see if that does it. If so, then I would feel better about dropping $200 on a decent GPU instead of spending that kind of money on a "test".

Any other thoughts?
 
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What brand PSU do you have? Try putting your hard drive on a single dedicated sata power connector. So The hard drive is getting power on a line of its own. . . Check all the power plugs and make sure they are connected all the way. one more thing. What is the exact model Of the PSU and CPU?
 
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The PSU is a PC Power and Cooling (OCZ Tech) Silencer Mk II
The CPU is an AMD FD4200FRW4KGU (FX Black Edition AM3+ quad core 3.3GHz)

I think the HD is on it's own power line but I'll double check.

Thanks
 
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Also, you wouldn't happen to have the BSOD error code would you?
Can you boot into safe mode?
 
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