System freezes on bootup half the time...

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Wytchocolate

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This problem has been going on since i built this computer, but now I'm getting sick of it. Not much I can say to explain it, so I'll post a few pics and do the best i can in explaining. This freezing up happens when ever it wants, some days it'll boot right up or restart just fine. Other days it takes up to 20 reboots to get to the desktop. There are 2 places it always freezes.


Some days it will sit at this screen forever, so i just ctrl+alt+delete and try - try again.


This is the other screen it freezes at but when its frozen it looks different. The picture is very 'shaded' as if it was trying to load the picture but stopped half way. It's easy to make it out, but the best way to describe it is shaded and frozen. This one causes me to hit the restart or power button.

The specs are in the signature. I'm not sure if this is my hard drive(s), CPU, RAM, PSU, etc. I know its not the OS because I have reformatted for other reasons to find it still happens just as often. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
remove your cdrom and see if it does it again, if it does it's either your HD or psu most likely. If it doesn't it's either your cdrom or your psu most likely .. I say most likely because it could very well be a dieing ide chip on your motherboard.

~Adam
 
Ok, I'll remove both of my cd/dvd roms and test that out later tonight. If anyone else has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
 
I've had this problem when a UATA and a PATA device are connected to the same ide cable. Make sure the devices are the same speed on the same cable.
 
both hard drives are on their own SATA cable. The cdroms may be sharing one, ill check tonight.
 
If you don't want to put the CD/DVD drives on seperate cables, doublecheck to make sure the master/slave jumpers are set correctly. You'll also want to make sure the cables are connected securely also.

 
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