Last year i built a computer with an intel DG33tl motherboard, quad core q6700 processor and seagate barracuda hard drive. From the beginning Vista seemed to be having alot of problems, but didnt think anything of it cause, well... its vista. The problems were windows explorer stopped working this happened alot, alot. So recently ive been having problems with booting up, it freezes before windows can reach the log in stage. Sometimes if i let it sit a few days and replug in the SATA it will load up but eventually crashes. It does alot of memory dumping too. And i have changed the SATA cable ive tried that already. So my question is do you think it is the motherboard or the Hard drive. Ive already ruled out vista i really doubt its that. My assumtion is that it is the motherboard, i did some research and found out other people had problems with the board too. If there is any questions that will help narrow down the possibility of whats wrong, feel free to ask. Thank you.
Hi, It could be your power supply, only i had all that happen to me and it was my powersupply. Or maybe somthing overheating? and maybe make sure that your bios settings are all set correctly.
Its possible, but i should have enough power to run everything, I have enough power, and everything else seems to work ive ran tests. Is there a way to test the power supply to rule that possibility out? overheating, ive gone into the bios and everything seems to be cool in the case, it has temp gauges i can check in the bios, so im sure its not that. And bios are set right but whats weird is that in the bios it reads the hard drive but its so sluggish in booting vista, and usually crashes before i get into vista. Ive been messing with it for days and havent got into vista yet. Almost like problem with hard drive. Thank you for the reply and if there is anything you can help me with id greatly appreciate it.
Have you got a spare harddrive to try, that way you'll know for sure if its just the harddrive. Some hardware monitoring software can give you the voltages of your powersupply.
if its not hard drive could be motherboards sata controller. but you can solve that problem by getting a pci sata raid card and use that instead with a single hard drive or multiple drives in a raid configuration.
