Help ! Pc Froze on me, then hangs on boot everytime...

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hey all

well, I was happily chatting on msn and surfing the web, then my music playing started loooping and the system froze, had to restart ! same thing has happened last 3 days each day, but it worked again after that.

So first thought, my overclock, take that off, so set the bios back to defaults, but still does it.

decieded to boot from my xp hard drive (froze on vista) and also the same, hangs on the loading part with the bar going accros.

I also tried safe mode, also hangs. for both os's

If its happening for both os's, this makes me think its a hardware issue,

ive just turned it off now, leaving it to cool, maybe its a temp issue ??:confused:

I really really dont want it to be a hardware issue, I just paid 700 quid for new pc parts 5 months back. this was to replace a pc which motherboard died !, not another please..

pray for me:rolleyes:

so what do you experts think ?

Thx for any help

slinger
 
hmmmcould be woth having a check inside to see what its like dust wise. sometime the coolers can get really clogged wth dust and sooo temps rise drematically.

also checkfor anything like a loose cables or loose cards.

havbe youmoved you pc recently ?
 
Hmm not moved it, but I might have accidently knocked/kicked it with my foot

Dust its ok, dusty, but not bad.

I will have a fiddle with it inside, check cards, etc.

thx for your reply

edit: forgot to say, I did install another set of 2 gig ram in it, about a two weeks ago
 
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Ok, done some experimenting

and I'm now 2 gig ram down :( and a hard drive down !

The hard drive seems to stop it booting aswell, theres just a lot of hdd activity, for a minute, then stops and still doesnt boot.

so unplugged its power, and now im back and running again...

odd for both ram and hdd to be a problem ?
 
hamesy said:
The HD with the OS, or is this HD used for data such as music only?
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I have two hard drives, one has xp on it and other has vista.

The vista drive wouldnt boot without the xp drive being upplugged..

but i didnt test it the other way round, to see if the xp drive wouldnt boot with the xp drive connected.
 
Hmm, would you guys say the ram is faulty for sure ?

i dont want to rma it, then be charged cause its not faulty ?
 
wolvers69 said:
Try it on it's own, without the original RAM, then you'll know for sure.
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Gave this a shot and it boots !

So the new ram is not faulty,

I put in the original ram (to make it 4 again) and doesnt boot, put in just 1 stick of the original ram and it boots

I first tried certain slots , didnt boot in one of them, cleaned the slot out abit and it booted(gave a blue screen with pgn or something corrupt,), then cleaned the other out and it booted ,tested one stick of the original ram in the slot and it boot, so wasnt dust in that one.

Can a motherboard not like 4 sticks of ram ?

and why only start with probs after 2 weeks ?
 
My p5n32e-sli threw a wobbly when i had 4*1gb geil 6400 in it, but none of the sticks were faulty, the motherboard/BIOS just didn't like my brand of RAM.
 
'Can a motherboard not like 4 sticks of ram'

It's definitely possible. I'd probably Run memtest with each stck of RAM at this stage just to be certain that the memory is fine.

Can you now reconnect that hard drive that you thought was faulty?

Is it possible that the extra RAM is too much for your PSU?

'I first tried certain slots , didnt boot in one of them'

Usually only one slot will work for just one stick of RAM.
 
Right, another update

I tried connecting the hard drive again, and it still wont boot. the connected hard drive just clicks a lot with activity and then nothing while vista trys to load.

I tried some other combo's in the ram slots, still not luck

wont boot, sometimes doesnt even show the post screen, just stays on a blank screen with my monitors light flashing, it should flashes anyways untill the graphics card kicks in and the bios post shows.

Im also peed bout the hard drive, i dont think theres anything wrong with it, it was working fine.

wierd for that to stop working and ram slots or whatever it could be.
 
Boot up with the RAM and hard drive configuration that works, with the hard drive you think is faulty as slave drive, then see if you can access the data on it.

Then RMA your mobo cos it sounds to me like it's faulty, and the other hard drive if it turns out you can't access the data on it.

Also, you didn't answer my question about your psu? Post a full system spec.
 
Sorry,

its a corsair HX620w PSU.

spec is all in my sig.

the two hard drives are a

seagate barracuda 7200.10 250 gig

western didital AAKS 500 gig

both original and new ram sets are OCZ platinum rev 2, 2 gig sets, (so 2 x 1gig sticks)

If its a faulty mobo, im gonna go crazy..., my previous built pc has two motherboard replacements. then I built this new one im on now...

just my luck that I had to go sell the extra free mobo when I got 2 for 1. (some messup on their end with delivery) thinking nah the motherboard will be fine, i still thought to myself, keep it, your bad luck with mobos might ruin another motherboard. and here we are now.

im going to do some more tests now, will report back
 
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