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Klynt

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Well my friend has recently reformatted his computer and upon doing so he has been plagued by incremental lockups. At first it only seemed to happen after playing about 10 or more minutes of World of Warcraft so we decided to swap out hard drives, memory, power supply, sound card, and just about everything except for the motherboard, proc, and video card.

When we tried re-installing windows we had some problems initially getting it installed as it would lock during the installation so we thought the CD drive might be the culprit. We tried the other drive installed with the same result. So according to both of my friends they tried going into the BIOS to switch back drive order and it ended up locking there as well.

Any sincere help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Clint
 
Run a barebones setup outside of the case with just the mobo/cpu/vidcard/ram/psu on a cardboard box. Run memtest overnight and see if you get any errors. If not, plug in the optical drive and hdd, and install windows. If you have issues, run some HDD diagnostic tools (available at the drive manufacturers website) to check for any errors. As an added measure, try different cables. Make sure all the ram settings (and any other settings) are correct in the BIOS.
 
well said enginurd.. try running with minimum hardware - after memtesting proceed with OS installation - if everything goes fine, run some stability tests (Prime95 / F@H client along with a looped 3DMark). If something goes wrong - report back and we'll try to help you out what might be causing the problem...
 
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