Recent content by echo5kw

Been years since I did anything in these forums, nice to be back... Anyway, I've been running into some issues the last few weeks and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. About a month ago my computer started randomly stopping any transmission to my monitor for about 5...

Liger88, that actually sounds exactly like what I'm going through. The new drive can be seen in BIOS and in the disk management, but it's not letting me assign a drive path or anything. It shows that I had all the information restored to it correctly, i.e. what I had backed up is on there based...

So one of my old hard drives is failing. It's5 years old, it's been used and abused, I had an external that I took apart to use as a movie storage and I decided to move the OS over to it for use as a main hard drive. I backed up the OS drive with Acronis and restored the new HD thru it as...

Well after dverything...a friend is building a new rig so I snaked his.old mobo, cpu and ram, threw it together very temporarily and lo and behold...everything started up with nary a problem. So im either looking at mobo or ram being bad. Joy. Ipso facto, new ram and motherboard here I come...

First off i wanted to say thanks to everyone for the advice. Going over everything i've heard from in here as well as talking with some friends, i've pulled the HDD's and tried using them as best i can in a friends computer (i'm in the military so 90% of the people i know have laptops, which...

Oh, almost fprgot specs... evga 670i mboard Radeon hd 5850 Core2quad 6700 I believe (its the low end higher wattage quad) Toughpower 850/ raidmax850 psus 4 gig corsair ram 2x seagate 250 gig hdd's

So I've scoured around trying to find some kinda solution to my computers ills and no one seems to have a decent solution. So hoping someone here has some kinda idea to throw at me. My computer froze a while back, I did a restart on it and it froze at the windows loading screen, the one right...