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Format and reinstall, computer went to garbage. HELP!

Viper87227

Viper87227

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I was running a "temporary solution" windows Xp until my XP Home arrived, and last week my install got corrupted for some reason or another. Windows couldnt find two files. I got XP Home last night, and did a clean format of my windows partition and reinstalled XP Home. After I did that, my system is running like hell. For starters, I have all but lost the ability to overclock. Before I was able to get 260x10 stable, now, 230x10 is causing constant rebooting. My graphics card is also having issues. Games with pause ever 20 seconds or so. I had to unclock the card by 100mhz to make it stop, and I still get some really bad graphical glithers. I checked my temps and heat is not the problem. I immeadily thought PSU, but I just dont see how it could be. PCP&C TurboCool 450 is what I have, its a damn good PSU. The 3.3 stayed at 3.22. 5 stayed at 4.9. 12 usually hung aroudn 11.90, the lowest I saw it drop was 11.54, and it was breif. I just cant understand whats happening, the only thing I did in between the installs was move the location of the computer about ten feet and add a 2005fp, neither of which could be factors. I installed windows twice, which should rule out a bad install. What could be causing all these problems, any ideas would be appriciated.
 
/going out on a limb here

Maybe..... Do you not have that much ram? The other windows you used might have used less resources and wouldn't need as much constant cooling, but now with full windows xp home installed it might be taking more ram power, and need more cooling, but it's possible you're fan is too weak so it's getting too hot..... I dunno, just trying to take a kick in the dark ;)
 
Unfortunitly, I don't just have top quality PSU's lying around, and not sure I want to buy one on a limb.

As far as ram, this is the system in my sig. If it coudl take 260mhz 2-2-2-10 before, I hardly think 200mhz 2-2-2-6 should be any issue. I have 1GB, so its not like I am running out. again, this is not a problem i had before, when I had XP Pro.
 
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