- Joined
- May 2, 2002
- Location
- Keller, TX
So this may take a few words to describe but I'm hoping for some troubleshooting help.
Here's what happened: I went away for a few days and left my system running, no problems when I got back. I shut down and installed an expansion slot cooler next to my 9800GT (Antec, two-slot cooler to exhaust GPU fan air.)
After that I increased my GPU OC a bit because the cooler seemed to be working well and then I installed VMWare Workstation again, which required a reboot.
The reboot took over 10 minutes... once I got to my UI in Windows (after 6mins or so) it took another 4-5minutes just to load my network, Core Temp, GPU2 Folding, etc. Normally I go from cold shut down to browsing in well under one minute.
After this I tried uninstalling VMWare from safe mode; no effect.
Then I used system restore from the point when I installed VMW; no effect.
System restore from the previous day; no effect.
Removed wifi card; no effect.
Removed expansion slot cooler; no effect.
I'm kind of at a loss here. MemTest shows no problems and I couldn't get WD's hard drive diagnostics thing to load.
Ideas??
Here's what happened: I went away for a few days and left my system running, no problems when I got back. I shut down and installed an expansion slot cooler next to my 9800GT (Antec, two-slot cooler to exhaust GPU fan air.)
After that I increased my GPU OC a bit because the cooler seemed to be working well and then I installed VMWare Workstation again, which required a reboot.
The reboot took over 10 minutes... once I got to my UI in Windows (after 6mins or so) it took another 4-5minutes just to load my network, Core Temp, GPU2 Folding, etc. Normally I go from cold shut down to browsing in well under one minute.
After this I tried uninstalling VMWare from safe mode; no effect.
Then I used system restore from the point when I installed VMW; no effect.
System restore from the previous day; no effect.
Removed wifi card; no effect.
Removed expansion slot cooler; no effect.
I'm kind of at a loss here. MemTest shows no problems and I couldn't get WD's hard drive diagnostics thing to load.
Ideas??