Evening All. Guess this could be for the Hardware or Software section, so excuse me if I've gone for the wrong one.
Recent build (First for me) as follows;
Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Chassis
Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL-01 PSU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Zalman CNPS9700-LED Aero Flower (Socket AM2/939/754/775) CPU Cooler
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8888C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Soundcard - Retail
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
Creative GigaWorks 7.1 S750 THX® Speakers - Retail
Logitech G15 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard - Retail (UK Layout)
Microsoft HABU 2000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail
After first install, the machine worked fine, apart from one thing. When installing the nvidia chipset for the mobo, I Naievely accepted, and installed, the Forceware Network Access Management 'utility'. As many of you are no doubt aware - but I wasn't - this interferes with several applications and is virtually impossible to get rid of. After much Googling, and some helpful advice from the Forum here, I opted to reformat, and do a clean install of XP Home.
With this done, I also added another 2x 1GB sticks of memory (exactly same as the first two). In retrospect, I now realise that this was a stupid thing to do until I determined if the system was going to be stable with the original hardware.
All seemed to be OK until (maybe by coincedence) I was updating Windows. From that time on, I am getting occasional 'Blue Screen' Flashes, and re-boots.
Since then, I have 'restored' to various stages, but with the same results. Windows Security Center has decided not to recognise my NOD32 AV software in the last couple of hours, having been quite happy with it to begin with. Not sure if this is relevant, but I notice the Event Viewer is logging 'Security Center' and 'WinMgt' every 7 or 8 minutes. Most recently I installed AVG anti-spyware, and it can't manage a full scan without the thing crashing.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Recent build (First for me) as follows;
Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Chassis
Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL-01 PSU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Zalman CNPS9700-LED Aero Flower (Socket AM2/939/754/775) CPU Cooler
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8888C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Soundcard - Retail
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
Creative GigaWorks 7.1 S750 THX® Speakers - Retail
Logitech G15 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard - Retail (UK Layout)
Microsoft HABU 2000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail
After first install, the machine worked fine, apart from one thing. When installing the nvidia chipset for the mobo, I Naievely accepted, and installed, the Forceware Network Access Management 'utility'. As many of you are no doubt aware - but I wasn't - this interferes with several applications and is virtually impossible to get rid of. After much Googling, and some helpful advice from the Forum here, I opted to reformat, and do a clean install of XP Home.
With this done, I also added another 2x 1GB sticks of memory (exactly same as the first two). In retrospect, I now realise that this was a stupid thing to do until I determined if the system was going to be stable with the original hardware.
All seemed to be OK until (maybe by coincedence) I was updating Windows. From that time on, I am getting occasional 'Blue Screen' Flashes, and re-boots.
Since then, I have 'restored' to various stages, but with the same results. Windows Security Center has decided not to recognise my NOD32 AV software in the last couple of hours, having been quite happy with it to begin with. Not sure if this is relevant, but I notice the Event Viewer is logging 'Security Center' and 'WinMgt' every 7 or 8 minutes. Most recently I installed AVG anti-spyware, and it can't manage a full scan without the thing crashing.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
