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Hi all,
I'm new around here and hoping that someone might be able to help me. I've been building my own PCs for a few years now, and recently took the plunge to upgrade various elements and move up to Vista x64.
The current spec is;
Intel Core 2 Quad 6600
Asus P5N32SLi Premium Socket 775 Mboard
MSI GeForce 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E OC
2 x Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 C5 Extreme Performance (2x2GB) (total 8GB)
Xilence 600W Gaming Edition PSU
storage is 2 x RAID 0 arrays one based on 2 x 500GB Seagate/Maxtor SATA2 16MB and the other on 2 x 250GB Maxtor/Seagate SATA2
and the system is cooled using Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II GH-WIU02 system. [I'm 100% sure that cooling is not the issue - CPU temp even under load is about 34C]
What happens is that at some point after booting up and entering Windows (usually within about 5-10 mins) the system totally locks up and hangs - no error messages it just sits there (I've left it for over 24hours to no avail). The system is totally locked (CAPS LOCK light locked on etc.) and is totally un-responsive.
I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light on what my problem is (or what I've done wrong) - there is some budget to change components if that will improve things.
Hoping someone can help.....
Best wishes
Colin
I'm new around here and hoping that someone might be able to help me. I've been building my own PCs for a few years now, and recently took the plunge to upgrade various elements and move up to Vista x64.
The current spec is;
Intel Core 2 Quad 6600
Asus P5N32SLi Premium Socket 775 Mboard
MSI GeForce 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E OC
2 x Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 C5 Extreme Performance (2x2GB) (total 8GB)
Xilence 600W Gaming Edition PSU
storage is 2 x RAID 0 arrays one based on 2 x 500GB Seagate/Maxtor SATA2 16MB and the other on 2 x 250GB Maxtor/Seagate SATA2
and the system is cooled using Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II GH-WIU02 system. [I'm 100% sure that cooling is not the issue - CPU temp even under load is about 34C]
What happens is that at some point after booting up and entering Windows (usually within about 5-10 mins) the system totally locks up and hangs - no error messages it just sits there (I've left it for over 24hours to no avail). The system is totally locked (CAPS LOCK light locked on etc.) and is totally un-responsive.
I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light on what my problem is (or what I've done wrong) - there is some budget to change components if that will improve things.
Hoping someone can help.....
Best wishes
Colin
