Last week I ordered a load of new components from OCUK to build up a new pc. Here are the specs
Point of View GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
MSI P7N Diamond nForce 780i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard with Free Creative X-FI Card
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
2 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7200S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable
Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Now I have built plenty of PCs before and work in IT so I know what I'm doing. The problem I have is that Vista is completely unstable.
I have the 2x500GB seagate sata disks in raid 0 which is where Vista is installed. After installation it booted in to vista and I started to run windows updates so i could install all the 4Gb ram I bought and it just spontaneously rebooted itself without showing any error.
I then tried windows updates again and it got a little further but then rebooted itself again.
I decide I would try installing a few of updates at a time to see if I can get them to complete which it does but once it restarts properly it goes into an infinate reboot loop until I switch it off.
I ended up having to run a repair from the vista disk.
Now it won't shutdown properly and is still not very stable.
I've tried getting the latest GFX and motherboard drivers but it doesn't seem to help.
Can anyone with roughly the same hardware and operating system tell me if they have had any joy with it because this is really starting to do my head in.
Cheers
Point of View GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
MSI P7N Diamond nForce 780i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard with Free Creative X-FI Card
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
2 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7200S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable
Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Now I have built plenty of PCs before and work in IT so I know what I'm doing. The problem I have is that Vista is completely unstable.
I have the 2x500GB seagate sata disks in raid 0 which is where Vista is installed. After installation it booted in to vista and I started to run windows updates so i could install all the 4Gb ram I bought and it just spontaneously rebooted itself without showing any error.
I then tried windows updates again and it got a little further but then rebooted itself again.
I decide I would try installing a few of updates at a time to see if I can get them to complete which it does but once it restarts properly it goes into an infinate reboot loop until I switch it off.
I ended up having to run a repair from the vista disk.
Now it won't shutdown properly and is still not very stable.
I've tried getting the latest GFX and motherboard drivers but it doesn't seem to help.
Can anyone with roughly the same hardware and operating system tell me if they have had any joy with it because this is really starting to do my head in.
Cheers
