Hi All.
Two days ago my friends and I started putting together the following System:
CPU
Q9450
Motherboad:
P5N72-T Premium
Memory:
Corsair XMS2 Dominator TWIN 4GB
Hard Drive:
Western Digital Caviar 640GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Buffer
Video Card:
9800GX2
Monitor:
Samsung 2253 LW
PSU
Antec NEOPOWER 650 650W ATX12V 120mm LED Fan 80PLUS ROHS Power Supply
Anyways, during installation everything went smooth, we installed Win XP 64 bit w/o a hitch and installed mobo and basic hardware drivers no problem at my friends house (I used the latest guru 3d driver for the graphics card, 177.79 but other then that the drivers were all just standard, from the cd that came with the hardware). We ran3dmark06 on it, no problems again, went very smoothly.
Then I took it back to my place and yesterday morning started to do some more work on it, starting with windows SP2 for the 64 bit system, still no problems. After that, I started to install some basic programs, such as the following:
PC Probe II & AI suite (Both programs came with the motherboard)
RivaTuner
Speedfan
Kaspersky Antivirus (Also came with mobo)
GeoShaders
During this time I had maybe 1 freeze, (Freeze being the kind that requires a whole new startup, not just program close). I should also not that the only modifications I made to any of the hardware was that I used rivatuner to turn the fanspeed on the GX2 to 100%. I ran 3dmark about 3 more times during this initial period, and had no problems.
The temps of the cpu, mobo, and GPU were about 35, 38 and 65 during this time.
Anyways, as the day went on and I started installing more programs (Firefox 3.0, windows messenger, adobe acrobat Reader, etc, still no games just basic things) I started to note more and more freezing. And the freezing didn't seem to have any correlation to any activity. Sometimes I would get freezing right when windows loaded up, or when I opened a webpage. Sometimes when I would start to run graphs of the core temperatures b/c I wanted to see them underload on Geoshaders, pretty much random freezing. I thought at first maybe it was b/c of the Kapersky AV since it seemed like crashes became more frequent after I installed that so I tried disabling it but no, still got random crashes. By the end of the day it got so that the comp could not go 30 minutes without freezing, regardless of whether I just turned it on and left it or if I started to do something on it like run Geoshaders, it would always freeze.
So this morning I decided I should just rollback to before I had even installed SP2, since prior to that the comp showed absolutely no problems whatsoever, and just try installing progams one at a time, and then run a 20 min stress test with GeoShaders to make sure there was no freezing before going on to the next thing. So I used the rollback I had made just before installing SP2. The system went through closing windows and then did the system restore and rebooted. Now however, as the system loads, I get the Windows XP x64 bit screen with the loading bar at the bottom, but after that fads, it just goes to a black screen for about 10 seconds, then a blue screen with words flashes for an instant (Impossible to read what it says) and then the computer restarts! It did this cycle 4 times in a row before I turned the comp off manually, then turned back on again, still the same restart before I get into windows. I don't know if this problem is related to the freezing or what but now I can't even get into windows!
If you have any advice to give as to how I can get into windows or if you think you know whats going on with the freezing, please let me know! I am not very computer savy, my friends who built the comp with me know a lot more then me but unfortunately they are at work until 5 oclock today so in the mena time I'm hoping someone on these boards can help me fix it.
Thanks for your time.