xdreamer

I can commiserate. I have a x1950xt. My solution is to use 6.12 drivers .. .they work the best

I have replaced the hard drive cables several times and the problem still remained..... One more thing ... it even freezes inside BIOS! I dont know what the bloody hell is going on. There are no external drives connected to the computer. The problem persistes even when booting from LiveCD into linux. My only remaining ideas are that it is the GPU, the motherboard, or a bloody ghost that i must excise with holy water!

My computer will not boot cold. When i first turn it on it will freeze at various point. 1st it wont even finish posting so I hit reset. Then it typically will get as far as the the black screen before the windows logo before freezing, so I hit reset again. 3rd time it usually gets to the windows logo before freezing so hit reset again. Then it might think about booting properly. Here is my set up: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 2.8 1.3vcore Heat sink: Gigabyte G-Power Pro ASUS P5N-E Sli (bios 401) Nvidia 650i SLI chipset 2x512 Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 T2 1.9v 2x1024 Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 T2 1.9 (Rated at 5-5-5-12) Sapphire Radeon X1950XT 256mb stock clocks WD 200GB PATA HD 8mb cache Maxtor 200GB SATA 3.0Gb NCQ 16mb cache HD Lite On DVDburner Lite ON DVDrom Audigy Platinum Dlink wifi G card Power Supply: Brand spank'n new Antec TruePower Trio 650W All power rails are absolutly rock stable. Here is what I have Checked: 1. The problem is the same at stock clocks and voltages. 2. It's not the RAM. I've ran it over night on memtest. The problem is the same with several different sticks and in single channel mode. The problem also occured before i put the extra 2Gigs in. 3. Originally this set up was powered by an Antec SmartPower 450. Becuase of the cold boot issues i assumed it was a PSU problem so I replaced it with the 650. This fixed the problem for about a week. 4. It still wont boot cold with all the pci cards and disk drives removed. 5. On a lark i removed XP and installed linux. Didnt help. 6. I reseated all the heat sinks, no improvement. The crowner of this little jewel is that the computer is stable. I can run Orthos for 72 hours straight with no errors. I get no BSOD although i get random resets a couple times a week. What gives? Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.