ethanmcf Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Hello,ive just had a lot of bad luck latlely,Now i built this system about 2 Months ago,My Current Specs are:DFI LanParty nForce 4 SLI-DR Mother Board.AMD Athlon Dual Core 4800+ X2 939 Pin.1Gb of Corsair XMS DDR 400 RAM.160Gb SATA HDD160Gb IDE HDD80Gb IDE HDDTSST Corp SATA DVD-RW.HP Lightscribe IDE DVD-RAW.2 X 512Mb Nvidia 6800GS running in SLI Mode.650W PSU.oh and a Floppy Disc drive .But, my problem is, i have been having problems with it lately,like it crashing, becoming Hot, and i Mean HOT So i bought a all new Air cooling system, this seems to work, my CPU is at 40 Degrees, when running intenese Photoshop and Premiere Work. dont know if thats high, or low lolBut i upgraded my System to Vista, to give it a go,and now my System will not boot AT ALL,it will come on fine.I will insert the XP Disc, or Win 2000, or even Bart PE,and it will not boot at all.Its set in the bios to boot to CD-ROM, then HDDit trys to boot, says press any key to boot from CD...so i press enter, or w/e, and thats itblack screen, just a blank black screen i dont think this is good, becuase i cannot access my PC at all.Ive tried updating my Bios, and again nothing, i contacted all the Manufactures of my Hardware.and they have no idea what it is.I have NOT overclocked at all...even thought i wanted to becuase i thouht i had a good system.But i was obviously wrong,can any one please help me with this.Becuase i use my PC for everything Also i Noticed something else, in my Bios my CPU is showing as AMD Hammer Family - Model unknwon...Why is that :SThanks, and i hope i have put this in the right Forum area.Thank youEthan Edited January 7, 2007 by ethanmcf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 are u booting off of your sata cd drive? try using ur ide drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanmcf Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 IVe tried all compinations, and still nothing,it just wont do anythingits powering on fine.but it will go throught the bios, and as the bios switches over the the OS it stopswith the black screen ThanksEthan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanmcf Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hello,ive just tired unplugging all hardware, FDD, HDD Etc, but kept the IDE DVD-RAM in,and it boots into the XP Cd :Sso it must bethe hardware i thought,so i chucked the HDD into my bros PCand it tried to boot into XP fine So thats confussed me, any ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 so is it working now? i would just keep vista off unless u want it to mess up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DL. Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Not enough power for everything, try connecting them all in different ways (use all the cables from the PSU and try to balance the load on each).What's the model/make of the PSU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanmcf Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 well it is working,but not with my primary Master HDD (the 160Gb IDE)which is wot i need, yet the OS trys to boot off the HDD, in a diffeent computer, but obviously failing, because its a different systemand i got a Corsair HX620W and 620W ThanksEthan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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