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PNY 8800GTS 320MB in game failures

Mudslinger said:
Well, your voodoo has struck my system. As I was working on it tonight, the PSU ... FAILED ... GOD! Computers are a damn expensive hobby. Anyway, I got myself a Coolermax 650W extreme power duo and I am also reformatting WinXP as we speak to see if that solves that XP problem. More to come on my super fantastic adventure...
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oops, sorry, haha. Didn't think THAT would happen! Sorry to hear of your bad news. Good thing it didn't take anything out with it! You know, when I was building my computer I was looking at a Raidmax case and that power supply to match it.... glad I didn't now :p
 
FIDDYOWNZ said:
Ye.

Though to me it sounds like it may be a hard drive issue (I.e BSOD/slow performance/lock up)

run a diag on it:
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Might lead you to some interesting results...
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Well, it did take a drive with it. Late last night, I started getting "hang" at startup after a clean install. The only thing that I had added to the mix wath plugging in my 2nd SATA drive. Soon as I unplugged it, problem solved. So I check the connections, because I was also getting strange charcters at the bios startup for that drive instead of the description. It was slightly loose. So I fixed that, rebooted with the 2nd drive in again and things seemed fine. Windows recognized it and just when I was about to pull my backups off of it to my main drive....POOF...and FREEZE. Unplug the drive and fixed the problem again. Now I have to figure out how I am gonna get my data off of it. Maybe try my external enclosure so I can boot it after windows loads, and if there is a problem, I can shut it off without having to reboot?
 
After taking everyone's feedback, I reformatted XP and bought a new PSU and another gig of ram. GRAW now runs flawlessly and looks incredible. In the end I think it must have been the PSU. Thanks all for your help!!!
 
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