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- Apr 20, 2006
Constant Crashes/Hangs - But is it my board (790i) or HDD (Raptor) thats the problem?
Recently my PC has been crashing and freezing (well hanging on stuff for a bit) a hell of a lot .. At first I thought it was my CPU OC, but P95 didn't kill it, so I bumped the vCore a tad just to be safe. This didn't help really so I thought, might be my Vista install, its starting to age - so I defragged, scanned and all that and in the end re-installed. No luck there ...
Even @ stock speeds I still get crashes and freezing .. So what's the cause?
Now, I suspect my HDD is the cause because when it does lock up and I reboot, my machine hangs when it's detecting my SATA devices - it see's my DVD Drive but then can't see my HDD. Unplugging the HDD and letting it post before plugging it back in fixes this however .. Also, its a Raptor (150GB) and not long I read on Tom's Hardware that Raptors and Vista 64bit Ultimate (for some reason) don't like each other and they investigated this showing how their Raptor was the cause for constant 'random' crashes ..
But then again .. I've got a 790i board .. Hailed for causing numerous problems (ie. data corruption), so maybe its my board ..
I get paid on the 25th so that's when I'll be replacing what ever is causing the problem, however I'm not sure which component is the problem .. I don't have any spare HDDs to test with (all of mine are in use in my server) and I don't have any spare 775 boards ..
So what do you guys think? Cheeers
Recently my PC has been crashing and freezing (well hanging on stuff for a bit) a hell of a lot .. At first I thought it was my CPU OC, but P95 didn't kill it, so I bumped the vCore a tad just to be safe. This didn't help really so I thought, might be my Vista install, its starting to age - so I defragged, scanned and all that and in the end re-installed. No luck there ...
Even @ stock speeds I still get crashes and freezing .. So what's the cause?
Now, I suspect my HDD is the cause because when it does lock up and I reboot, my machine hangs when it's detecting my SATA devices - it see's my DVD Drive but then can't see my HDD. Unplugging the HDD and letting it post before plugging it back in fixes this however .. Also, its a Raptor (150GB) and not long I read on Tom's Hardware that Raptors and Vista 64bit Ultimate (for some reason) don't like each other and they investigated this showing how their Raptor was the cause for constant 'random' crashes ..
But then again .. I've got a 790i board .. Hailed for causing numerous problems (ie. data corruption), so maybe its my board ..
I get paid on the 25th so that's when I'll be replacing what ever is causing the problem, however I'm not sure which component is the problem .. I don't have any spare HDDs to test with (all of mine are in use in my server) and I don't have any spare 775 boards ..
So what do you guys think? Cheeers