Hi guys,
I built a system for a friend about 2 years ago, but he's been having blue screening problems ever since plus problems extracting .rar files.
Original System:
Q9300 Intel Quad-core CPU
Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4L mobo
2x BFG 9600 GeForce cards
650W Coolermaster RP-650-PCAP PSU
4Gb Corsair 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
Western Digital SATA2 500Gb HDD
DVD Drive
CDRW drive.
Vista SP2 Home Premium
Since then, we've replaced the mobo and PSU to:
Asus P5N-D
Corsair 950TX
Voltages and temps have always been fine.
Steps taken so far:
Tried using only 1 graphics card at a time.
Tried using a different graphics card.
Tested each stick of RAM individually.
Tried different RAM
Bench-tested system
Disconnected IDE drives.
Bought a different HDD
Bought another motherboard (which was faulty and had to be sent back).
Tried different Power lead
Even tried different keyboard and mouse.
Tried different monitor
Tried linux boot disk
Cleaning and reapplying thermal paste.
The thing is, with the old motherboard, it works, but it BSODs, but with the new motherboard, it will only get onto desktop and freezes after a few minutes. It'll even freeze in BIOS. Just looking at temps, and it'll freeze as soon as I touch the keyboard. I've also noticed that the temps on the new motherboard are higher than I'd like (low 40s degrees for a socket 775 processor???).
So, what you reckon it is? There's little else I can even think of testing apart from CPU.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I built a system for a friend about 2 years ago, but he's been having blue screening problems ever since plus problems extracting .rar files.
Original System:
Q9300 Intel Quad-core CPU
Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4L mobo
2x BFG 9600 GeForce cards
650W Coolermaster RP-650-PCAP PSU
4Gb Corsair 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
Western Digital SATA2 500Gb HDD
DVD Drive
CDRW drive.
Vista SP2 Home Premium
Since then, we've replaced the mobo and PSU to:
Asus P5N-D
Corsair 950TX
Voltages and temps have always been fine.
Steps taken so far:
Tried using only 1 graphics card at a time.
Tried using a different graphics card.
Tested each stick of RAM individually.
Tried different RAM
Bench-tested system
Disconnected IDE drives.
Bought a different HDD
Bought another motherboard (which was faulty and had to be sent back).
Tried different Power lead
Even tried different keyboard and mouse.
Tried different monitor
Tried linux boot disk
Cleaning and reapplying thermal paste.
The thing is, with the old motherboard, it works, but it BSODs, but with the new motherboard, it will only get onto desktop and freezes after a few minutes. It'll even freeze in BIOS. Just looking at temps, and it'll freeze as soon as I touch the keyboard. I've also noticed that the temps on the new motherboard are higher than I'd like (low 40s degrees for a socket 775 processor???).
So, what you reckon it is? There's little else I can even think of testing apart from CPU.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks