What's going on here? I used to have a rock solid PC that could run Prime95 and memtest 24 hours no problem. It was always perfectly stable and reliable. Now it's a different story. Nevermind overclocking, this thing is all of a sudden unstable at stock with BIOS "fail safe defaults" all set.
I first noticed some weird behaviour while using windows, programs not responding, services failing (superfetch in particular) double-clicks being missed and thigs like that. So I decided to run memtest and within 30 seconds loads of errors. Same with Prime95. Uhhh! It was late so I just shut it down and thought I'd take a look next day....
Well next day it won't even boot. Weird - it got as far as the green loader bar thing (Vista 64) and just hung there for ever. So I try booting off the Vista DVD - same thing!?! Well that can't be corrupt so I figure it's a hardware issue.
Eventually I end up unplugging bits hardware to see if I can get it to boot from the DVD. Eventiually I found it does when 1 particular disk drive is unplugged - it'll boot from the DVD then. If I plug that 1 drive (which happens to be my OS drive) into any of the sata sockets, then it can't seem to load an OS from the DVD or HD. So a bit miffed I decide it's knackered, take it out and install Windows to another drive. It boots Windows again no problem from the DVD or HD but the instabilities are still with me. They didn't used to be.
I've also noticed that my fancontroller has started to cut out sometimes. The LCD goes blank and the fans all stop, like it's been cut from the power. It hasn't though. Funny thing is if I tip the machine on it's side, that often brings the fan controller back online. Like me you're probably thinking loose connection but it's not, I checked all the wiring it's fine.
So those are the symptoms from last night. Just started out of the blue, no warnings or anything. I'm thinking my PSU is playing up but wanted to run this by you fellas to see what you think. PSU?
Cheers!
I first noticed some weird behaviour while using windows, programs not responding, services failing (superfetch in particular) double-clicks being missed and thigs like that. So I decided to run memtest and within 30 seconds loads of errors. Same with Prime95. Uhhh! It was late so I just shut it down and thought I'd take a look next day....
Well next day it won't even boot. Weird - it got as far as the green loader bar thing (Vista 64) and just hung there for ever. So I try booting off the Vista DVD - same thing!?! Well that can't be corrupt so I figure it's a hardware issue.
Eventually I end up unplugging bits hardware to see if I can get it to boot from the DVD. Eventiually I found it does when 1 particular disk drive is unplugged - it'll boot from the DVD then. If I plug that 1 drive (which happens to be my OS drive) into any of the sata sockets, then it can't seem to load an OS from the DVD or HD. So a bit miffed I decide it's knackered, take it out and install Windows to another drive. It boots Windows again no problem from the DVD or HD but the instabilities are still with me. They didn't used to be.
I've also noticed that my fancontroller has started to cut out sometimes. The LCD goes blank and the fans all stop, like it's been cut from the power. It hasn't though. Funny thing is if I tip the machine on it's side, that often brings the fan controller back online. Like me you're probably thinking loose connection but it's not, I checked all the wiring it's fine.
So those are the symptoms from last night. Just started out of the blue, no warnings or anything. I'm thinking my PSU is playing up but wanted to run this by you fellas to see what you think. PSU?
Cheers!
(and a new disk drive!) so I hope this will sort it out. Just hope this Jeantech doesn't kill anything else in the meantime!