Matt It sure sounds like an IRQ still. Does your gpu share IRQ with anything else? Sometimes sharing IRQ can cause conflicts, maybe your sound is sharing IRQ with your gpu. If something is sharing it with your gpu, try disconnecting, boot then reconnect/reboot...

so do you think it's on the same controller as the OS hd? Was it selectable when you installed vista? did you try removing the hd(disconnecting it) booting in vista, rebooting, removing the HD and boot back again? Hi My motherboard is an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe....

would be safer. Still shouldn't have any problems either way. Thanks for your help Bump^ I have this same problem, between 3:50-3:56 PM EVERY afternoon no matter what day my net will disconnect this booting me from AIM/Online games (WoW, BF2) anything. I'm...

them are enabled, the computer does not manage to boot (except in safe mode.) It should also be mentioned that when my PCI card is plugged in - the computer at time of booting uses it and not the monitor plugged into the graphic card attached to the motherboard....

Went to start PC this morning and boot sequence froze before POST. Blank screen, no beeps. After messing for a while I found that if I left the Keyboard connector disconnected it booted up fine. I also found that if I left the keyboard connected and...

can't boot because it needs files from the old drive. You should be able to fix this by leaving your old drive disconnected, boot from the windows setup cd/dvd and choose Repair Mode. You will be thrown to a DOS-like session, where you have options like /fixmbr...

a graphics card or two that you didn't mention that takes you from the 450W I get with that calculator to the 750W you mention. Regardless, did you test the system with all but one of the drives disconnected? Boot with 2 RAM modules and see if it works. Then...

wanted to convert my current 1TB Caviar Black into a storage drive so I disconnected it, so I could get the boot loader installed onto the 500GB and the new install of Windows 7 RC1 (build 7000). The problem is, the install goes fine but when I try to boot...

trouble with this board? While it probably would support Prescott, it's one of the worst motherboards I've ever had. Plagued with random game crashes, random broadband disconnections, boot crashes, unability to run certain memory, overclocking problems, MSI...

came loose for some unusual reason (amazingly, it's happened). Also, check the innards for damage (i.e. blown caps, burnt silicon). Was there any smoke? Did you detect a strange odor eminating from the rig? Afterwards, disconnect all boot devices (optical,...