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Heres my hardware
Asus Nfroce4 SLI Deluxe (The original asus sli board)
OCZ pc3200, 2gigs, dont remember timings
OCZ powerstream modular power supply
6600gt
logitech g5 mouse
No overclocks
A couple of months ago I noticed that Windows couldn't read any cd/dvd media. It would just sit in the drive and spin. No errors, explorer just wouldn't respond. I chalked it up to issues with VMware Workstation as it disables autorun by default. I mostly used linux anyways.
Well now I'm having to get back into development so I'm going to use Windows again for awhile. Well I reformatted last night thinking that would solve my problem, and it did at first, but after I installed the nforce drivers it went to hell. Same issues as before, can't access dvdrw drive. Also, my mouse won't work (doesn't have power) until I unplug it and replug it back in. So that made me think that my motherboard is going bad. BUT I also had a problem installing the nforce drivers. I got an memory write violation twice during the install and had to retry until it worked. So for giggles I ran memtest86 and within 10seconds I had miles upon miles of errors. So I figured out which ram stick was dead and removed it. I fired back into windows thinking that could possibly fix my 2 issues listed above but it didn't.
So now I'm trying to figure out why Windows still acts stupid. I run Gentoo on another hard-drive and I hadn't had any issues til about 2 weeks ago. (X server wont start but its possibly my fault and not hardware
) Ubuntu LiveCD works like a charm. So heres my thoughts of what could be wrong
1) Drivers/OS is corrupt from having bad memory while installing them. In which case I'd just reformat again since the only things installed are firefox and netbeans.
OR
2) Motherboard is also going bad. The only reason I mention this is because I've had issues before with it and the SATA controller. It wouldn't surprise me if went dead too.
I've ruled out power supply and dvd-rw as everything has worked in linux. (Which in itself it wierd since I do some heavy computing in linux.)
What are your thoughts?
Asus Nfroce4 SLI Deluxe (The original asus sli board)
OCZ pc3200, 2gigs, dont remember timings
OCZ powerstream modular power supply
6600gt
logitech g5 mouse
No overclocks
A couple of months ago I noticed that Windows couldn't read any cd/dvd media. It would just sit in the drive and spin. No errors, explorer just wouldn't respond. I chalked it up to issues with VMware Workstation as it disables autorun by default. I mostly used linux anyways.
Well now I'm having to get back into development so I'm going to use Windows again for awhile. Well I reformatted last night thinking that would solve my problem, and it did at first, but after I installed the nforce drivers it went to hell. Same issues as before, can't access dvdrw drive. Also, my mouse won't work (doesn't have power) until I unplug it and replug it back in. So that made me think that my motherboard is going bad. BUT I also had a problem installing the nforce drivers. I got an memory write violation twice during the install and had to retry until it worked. So for giggles I ran memtest86 and within 10seconds I had miles upon miles of errors. So I figured out which ram stick was dead and removed it. I fired back into windows thinking that could possibly fix my 2 issues listed above but it didn't.
So now I'm trying to figure out why Windows still acts stupid. I run Gentoo on another hard-drive and I hadn't had any issues til about 2 weeks ago. (X server wont start but its possibly my fault and not hardware
) Ubuntu LiveCD works like a charm. So heres my thoughts of what could be wrong1) Drivers/OS is corrupt from having bad memory while installing them. In which case I'd just reformat again since the only things installed are firefox and netbeans.
OR
2) Motherboard is also going bad. The only reason I mention this is because I've had issues before with it and the SATA controller. It wouldn't surprise me if went dead too.
I've ruled out power supply and dvd-rw as everything has worked in linux. (Which in itself it wierd since I do some heavy computing in linux.)
What are your thoughts?