HAving Trouble with new Build

[PimpinChuck]

Last week i put together a new computer for myself. Everything is in my sig, except for the fact im running Vista x64 Ultimate. Its suffering from random crashing, freezing requiring hard restart. In windows it doesnt happen too often, in games like Bioshock and Crysis it freezes sometime between 5-15min. I have the latest Bios, Drivers, this is the 5th computer put together for myself since 1998 (countless builds for friends/family) and being lucky i never had a hardware/software issue that wasnt obvious. I ran Sandra Burn in on the proc for 17hrs. no problem, Ran the vista memory diagnostic 3 times without trouble, I tried using a different mouse (suggested to others on other forums). I tried installing vista x86 ultimate and windows was crashing twice as much. I really dont want to downgrade to XP if i dont have to as ive gotten used to vista in the past year as it runs perfect on the other 3 comps in my house any help/suggestions would be very appreciated.

 

[tazzmissionx]

Have you ran any diagnostic checks on your hard drive? Maybe you have a defective/faulty hard drive. Or maybe the 790 chipset is causing data corruption issues like Nvidia's other 700 series chips have been known for.

 

[PimpinChuck]

Ive tried two things so far. I took my blank 320GB drive and put it on the non raid sata port and did a clean vista 64 install and in the end got the same problem. Then i formatted again and installed XP. No problems or freezing for two days now. I think im going to return this motherboard if i dont figure something out soon