I will start off with my specs:
Asus P5N32E-SLI Plus
E6600 oc'd to 3.3ghz - stable for many months
4x2gb Crucial Ram
1TB WD Black
Thermaltake Toughpower 700w
Evga 8800GTS 640mb (this is temorary till I get my 5850 back from RMA).
A bit of a long read, but please. I am desperate for help.
The problems started a week and a half ago while playing a game. (At the time, I had two 8800's in SLI. I had been using this for about a month now waiting for my RMA) I started having issues with the game randomly crashing to desktop. When I would load back in, the game refused to join a server. The second I tried it would crash back to desktop. I was also encountering random freezing too where all the sudden my sound card would output a high pitched whine and the computer was frozen.
While trying to figure out what was going on. My computer kept getting worse. Started BSOD'ing on me at random along with the occasional freezing and crashing to the desktop.
Around this time, I thought maybe the graphics card were causing the problems, so I pushed on the SLI bridge while in game to make sure it was seated right and I wasnt even thinking because I touched the bare solder. When I touched it the game started tripping out. I am thinking that this didn't help my situation, but my computer WAS already starting to go crazy before I did this.
Overall, I had restarted my computer around 40 times or so using the restart button. I think all this restarting corrupted the OS because it went down hill quick. I pulled out one of the cards and tried to reinstall the graphics drivers. But the computer would absolutely not install. The computer game me and error everytime.
Around this time check disk would try to auto start on boot. I would let it go everytime and it says it deletes crap and fixes stuff. I reboot and then it would bluescreen quickly and then reboot. Sometimes the checkdisk would appear and sometimes not.
A few more lock ups later I figured my computer is too far gone so I tried to backup all my data so I could re-format. Well... I couldnt do this either. I was getting some nasty errors. The transfer function was broken, I could maybe get a few megabytes before it would hang and then I would get an error claiming something failed and that it recovered. Transfer would resume and then around 20 seconds later it would happen again(I never got all my data).
At this point IE stopped working as well and I couldnt even boot into safe mode(seriously, it would hang while loading the files, I let it go for 30 minutes and it would never finish). Everything was going crazy.
I gave up and reformatted. After a few failures getting the OS to install. I began getting windows updates. Everything seemed okay up until I started trying to reinstall my games. One of them gave me a critical error and couldnt finish. I let the others go for while I was at work and the computer froze at some point. I used the restart button again.
Even still after having reformatted, check disk still wants to run(it did this before I had my first failure upon reformatting)
Anyways, today(reformatted yesterday). My computer has taken a dump again and cannot load anything. Gives me errors. Cant open explorer or chrome. The library button doesnt work. Couldnt even take screen shots of the errors because paint kept failling..
So at this point I am out of ideas and decided to run a checkdisk through the command line (chkdsk /r) I rebooted and it is running right now. It is taking a very long time this time around. Before checkdisk(when it autostarted upon boot) would take maybe a minute to do its thing. Now its been about twenty minutes and its only at 11%. I hope this means it is fixing something.......
I know this was long, but I am seriously frustrated. I don't know what to do other than rebuild a whole new machine. I cannot come up with any explanation as to what is going on.
I used my geeksquad MRI disk and ran a full system scan(scans everything including ram and HDD), ran a separate hard drive test, and memtest86+. All my hardware checks out. The ONLY thing that is left unknown is whether my old 8800 is causing this. I dont see how it could do all that I am experiencing though...
The only things I can think of is to put my replacement 5850 back in tomorrow, and hope the current checkdisk fixes this.
I am at a serious loss as to what to do.
Anyways, here are a few pictures of some of the errors I recieved.
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Asus P5N32E-SLI Plus
E6600 oc'd to 3.3ghz - stable for many months
4x2gb Crucial Ram
1TB WD Black
Thermaltake Toughpower 700w
Evga 8800GTS 640mb (this is temorary till I get my 5850 back from RMA).
A bit of a long read, but please. I am desperate for help.
The problems started a week and a half ago while playing a game. (At the time, I had two 8800's in SLI. I had been using this for about a month now waiting for my RMA) I started having issues with the game randomly crashing to desktop. When I would load back in, the game refused to join a server. The second I tried it would crash back to desktop. I was also encountering random freezing too where all the sudden my sound card would output a high pitched whine and the computer was frozen.
While trying to figure out what was going on. My computer kept getting worse. Started BSOD'ing on me at random along with the occasional freezing and crashing to the desktop.
Around this time, I thought maybe the graphics card were causing the problems, so I pushed on the SLI bridge while in game to make sure it was seated right and I wasnt even thinking because I touched the bare solder. When I touched it the game started tripping out. I am thinking that this didn't help my situation, but my computer WAS already starting to go crazy before I did this.
Overall, I had restarted my computer around 40 times or so using the restart button. I think all this restarting corrupted the OS because it went down hill quick. I pulled out one of the cards and tried to reinstall the graphics drivers. But the computer would absolutely not install. The computer game me and error everytime.
Around this time check disk would try to auto start on boot. I would let it go everytime and it says it deletes crap and fixes stuff. I reboot and then it would bluescreen quickly and then reboot. Sometimes the checkdisk would appear and sometimes not.
A few more lock ups later I figured my computer is too far gone so I tried to backup all my data so I could re-format. Well... I couldnt do this either. I was getting some nasty errors. The transfer function was broken, I could maybe get a few megabytes before it would hang and then I would get an error claiming something failed and that it recovered. Transfer would resume and then around 20 seconds later it would happen again(I never got all my data).
At this point IE stopped working as well and I couldnt even boot into safe mode(seriously, it would hang while loading the files, I let it go for 30 minutes and it would never finish). Everything was going crazy.
I gave up and reformatted. After a few failures getting the OS to install. I began getting windows updates. Everything seemed okay up until I started trying to reinstall my games. One of them gave me a critical error and couldnt finish. I let the others go for while I was at work and the computer froze at some point. I used the restart button again.
Even still after having reformatted, check disk still wants to run(it did this before I had my first failure upon reformatting)
Anyways, today(reformatted yesterday). My computer has taken a dump again and cannot load anything. Gives me errors. Cant open explorer or chrome. The library button doesnt work. Couldnt even take screen shots of the errors because paint kept failling..
So at this point I am out of ideas and decided to run a checkdisk through the command line (chkdsk /r) I rebooted and it is running right now. It is taking a very long time this time around. Before checkdisk(when it autostarted upon boot) would take maybe a minute to do its thing. Now its been about twenty minutes and its only at 11%. I hope this means it is fixing something.......
I know this was long, but I am seriously frustrated. I don't know what to do other than rebuild a whole new machine. I cannot come up with any explanation as to what is going on.
I used my geeksquad MRI disk and ran a full system scan(scans everything including ram and HDD), ran a separate hard drive test, and memtest86+. All my hardware checks out. The ONLY thing that is left unknown is whether my old 8800 is causing this. I dont see how it could do all that I am experiencing though...
The only things I can think of is to put my replacement 5850 back in tomorrow, and hope the current checkdisk fixes this.
I am at a serious loss as to what to do.
Anyways, here are a few pictures of some of the errors I recieved.
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