I am having a problem with my new computer and was wondering if anyone had any tips for me or courses of action.
Yesterday I purchased a bundle of new hardware and built my new computer. I was pretty excited, I got the machine booted, installed Vista(which took abnormally long), and began installing drivers for my new machine. After installing video and motherboard drivers, something very strange occurred. Doing the most remedial things, such as changing settings, or installing Vista SP2, the computer locks up without cause. Sometimes it will do it after 2 minutes(if, for instance, I attempt to run Age of Conan). If I leave it sitting long enough(no longer than 20 minutes), the computer also crashes.
The list of components is as follows:
OS: Vista Ultimate x64
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600
Memory: 8GB Corsair XMS2 DDR800
Video Card: XFX 8800GS 580m 384MB PCI-E
PSU: Silverstone 1000W Strider Series
Hard Drive: 250gb Seagate SATA
To me, this feels like something in Vista is not working properly, but to be honest I'm stumped about my problem. I am tempted to reformat with my XP copy to see if that corrects the problem.
Edit: I am attempting to install the latest Motherboard drivers, apparently I didn't have the latest version. No change thus far.
Yesterday I purchased a bundle of new hardware and built my new computer. I was pretty excited, I got the machine booted, installed Vista(which took abnormally long), and began installing drivers for my new machine. After installing video and motherboard drivers, something very strange occurred. Doing the most remedial things, such as changing settings, or installing Vista SP2, the computer locks up without cause. Sometimes it will do it after 2 minutes(if, for instance, I attempt to run Age of Conan). If I leave it sitting long enough(no longer than 20 minutes), the computer also crashes.
The list of components is as follows:
OS: Vista Ultimate x64
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600
Memory: 8GB Corsair XMS2 DDR800
Video Card: XFX 8800GS 580m 384MB PCI-E
PSU: Silverstone 1000W Strider Series
Hard Drive: 250gb Seagate SATA
To me, this feels like something in Vista is not working properly, but to be honest I'm stumped about my problem. I am tempted to reformat with my XP copy to see if that corrects the problem.
Edit: I am attempting to install the latest Motherboard drivers, apparently I didn't have the latest version. No change thus far.