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Billmc70

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Okay, this all started new yrs eve. I decided I wanted to play some Doom 3 and went to fire it up and my system locked. I rebooted and it stopped after cpu detection (no memory post). I rebooted a few times with same results and called it a night. In the morning I cleared the cmos and got it up and going. I did ok browsing the net but locked up in any games. I decided it was about time for a fresh window install and wrote zeros to the disk and started a new install. It seemed to take forever but eventually went. I started it today and went to install my nforce drivers and it just restarted and and I havent been able to log into windows since. I tried safe mode and a few other modes and still nothing (just a black screen with a blinking line in upper left corner. I have tried running memtest from a floppy and did that for 7.5 hours with no errors. My cpu temp and voltages all look good (according to bios anyways) temp is 45c and voltages were all slighly higher than spec. I ran seagate seatools and passed all the physical tests but got a file structure error. It said : "Critical errors in the index and metadata" whatever that means :) Any suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated (or else I gotta take it to a shop) :-( My new X-850 XT vid card comes tommorow and I really wanna get this workin ;-) Thanks
 
Give these a try:

1. Power down and reseat all the power and drive cable connections (check for bent pins on the connectors).
2. Remove 1 stick of memory and try that. If problem still persists, try the other stick of memory by itself. If the memory doesn't seem to be causing the problem, then
3. Reseat all the components (gpu, cpu, whatever else you have).
4. Make sure your hard drive(s) and optical drive(s) aren't jumpered for cable select. Make them master/slave.

If all of those fail to cure the problem, you might be facing damaged hardware. BTW - did you take precautions in guarding against ESD when you built the system?
 
I did try swapping the memory around. (forgot to mention that). I will reseat everything tommorow and see how that goes. As far as esd, I dont have a wriststrap or anything but i try to ground my self out and keep the parts in the packages and not walk on carpet and stuff like that. I built this system a while ago and its never given me any trouble so I dunno whats going on. Thanx for fast responses :) Also, if it is damaged HW, any guesses on what it might be?
 
Could be a number of things, really. PSU, Motherboard, CPU, hard drive, and the list goes on....

I hope you can get things stable soon. Keep us posted.
 
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