I just built this rig and although everything looks fine on surface... it takes too long to load windows(I have the correct boot sequence). But more importantly, when I run 3dmark06 - in the first intensive graphics test - the system halts midway - the screen becomes black for about 15 seconds, all this time the machine being unresponsive and then it just restarts/reboots. What do I need to fix? This is my first build and its kinda frustrating to know that my 3-yr old 1.5ghz athlon xp machine was faster.
(I ran the directx diagnostics etc. Everything looks fine. The drivers etc have been put in the right order and are updated. Only the bios is old ver 1.5. A little scared to mess with that.)
The details of my rig:
A64 San Diego
ASrock 939 Dual-sata2
Antec TP 2.0 550W PSU
ATI Radeon 9800 pro AGP
Audigy 2 ZS
WD 80 Gigs 7200rpm IDE
OCZ performance 1 gig DDR2
Windows xp pro
(I ran the directx diagnostics etc. Everything looks fine. The drivers etc have been put in the right order and are updated. Only the bios is old ver 1.5. A little scared to mess with that.)
The details of my rig:
A64 San Diego
ASrock 939 Dual-sata2
Antec TP 2.0 550W PSU
ATI Radeon 9800 pro AGP
Audigy 2 ZS
WD 80 Gigs 7200rpm IDE
OCZ performance 1 gig DDR2
Windows xp pro