[ethanmcf]

Hello,
ive just had a lot of bad luck latlely,
Now i built this system about 2 Months ago,

My Current Specs are:

DFI LanParty nForce 4 SLI-DR Mother Board.
AMD Athlon Dual Core 4800+ X2 939 Pin.
1Gb of Corsair XMS DDR 400 RAM.
160Gb SATA HDD
160Gb IDE HDD
80Gb IDE HDD
TSST Corp SATA DVD-RW.
HP Lightscribe IDE DVD-RAW.
2 X 512Mb Nvidia 6800GS running in SLI Mode.
650W PSU.
oh and a Floppy Disc drive .

But, my problem is, i have been having problems with it lately,
like it crashing, becoming Hot, and i Mean HOT
So i bought a all new Air cooling system, this seems to work, my CPU is at 40 Degrees, when running intenese Photoshop and Premiere Work. dont know if thats high, or low lol
But i upgraded my System to Vista, to give it a go,
and now my System will not boot AT ALL,
it will come on fine.
I will insert the XP Disc, or Win 2000, or even Bart PE,
and it will not boot at all.
Its set in the bios to boot to CD-ROM, then HDD
it trys to boot, says press any key to boot from CD...
so i press enter, or w/e, and thats it
black screen, just a blank black screen
i dont think this is good, becuase i cannot access my PC at all.
Ive tried updating my Bios, and again nothing, i contacted all the Manufactures of my Hardware.
and they have no idea what it is.
I have NOT overclocked at all...even thought i wanted to becuase i thouht i had a good system.
But i was obviously wrong,
can any one please help me with this.
Becuase i use my PC for everything

Also i Noticed something else, in my Bios my CPU is showing as AMD Hammer Family - Model unknwon...
Why is that :S

Thanks, and i hope i have put this in the right Forum area.



Thank you

Ethan

This post has been edited by ethanmcf: 07 January 2007 - 11:41 AM

[ripken204]

are u booting off of your sata cd drive? try using ur ide drive.

[ethanmcf]

IVe tried all compinations, and still nothing,
it just wont do anything
its powering on fine.
but it will go throught the bios, and as the bios switches over the the OS it stops
with the black screen
Thanks
Ethan

[ethanmcf]

Hello,
ive just tired unplugging all hardware, FDD, HDD Etc, but kept the IDE DVD-RAM in,
and it boots into the XP Cd :S
so it must bethe hardware i thought,
so i chucked the HDD into my bros PC
and it tried to boot into XP fine
So thats confussed me, any ideas.

[ripken204]

so is it working now? i would just keep vista off unless u want it to mess up again.

[DL.]

Not enough power for everything, try connecting them all in different ways (use all the cables from the PSU and try to balance the load on each).

What's the model/make of the PSU?

[ethanmcf]

well it is working,
but not with my primary Master HDD (the 160Gb IDE)
which is wot i need, yet the OS trys to boot off the HDD, in a diffeent computer, but obviously failing, because its a different system
and i got a Corsair HX620W and 620W
Thanks
Ethan