snakegriffin85
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hi all, this is perhaps the strangest computer issue ive ever dealt with, maybe somebody can give me some ideas.
ive had a home built game rig now for about 2 years, has run like a dream - minus a few fan changes and a power supply replacement roughly a year ago.
it started out freezing randomly and restarting automatically in windows without any changes being made.
no problem i thought, ill just format it, but it wont format.
not a single installation program, be it windows xp 32bit, xp 64 bit, vista, not even suse or fedora linux, 32 bit and 64 bit, it doesnt care.
it doesn't freeze at a particular file, sometimes ill get half way done with an install, other times it will freeze before ive started.
when it freezes the cd drive becomes unresponsive and keyboard goes dead. sometimes it blinks.
i cant even run it with a live distro of linux, it simply freezes at various points during the mounting process. it doesnt force a shut down, when it freezes either, it just sits there... laughing at me. :freak:
ive tested all my memory, no issues there. processor, video card, and chipset are within normal temps, cd drive good, floppy disabled (useless anyway).
ive updated to the latest bios, and then back again to earlier versions, still the same problem with all of them.
it still freezes when i run a live distro of linux with the hard drive unplugged.
which in my mind means its one of two things: motherboard or power supply.
would these symptoms appear if a power supply had gone sour? or would that tend to be more a motherboard issue....
any help GREATLY appreciated - im losing my mind.
ive had a home built game rig now for about 2 years, has run like a dream - minus a few fan changes and a power supply replacement roughly a year ago.
it started out freezing randomly and restarting automatically in windows without any changes being made.
no problem i thought, ill just format it, but it wont format.
not a single installation program, be it windows xp 32bit, xp 64 bit, vista, not even suse or fedora linux, 32 bit and 64 bit, it doesnt care.
it doesn't freeze at a particular file, sometimes ill get half way done with an install, other times it will freeze before ive started.
when it freezes the cd drive becomes unresponsive and keyboard goes dead. sometimes it blinks.
i cant even run it with a live distro of linux, it simply freezes at various points during the mounting process. it doesnt force a shut down, when it freezes either, it just sits there... laughing at me. :freak:
ive tested all my memory, no issues there. processor, video card, and chipset are within normal temps, cd drive good, floppy disabled (useless anyway).
ive updated to the latest bios, and then back again to earlier versions, still the same problem with all of them.
it still freezes when i run a live distro of linux with the hard drive unplugged.
which in my mind means its one of two things: motherboard or power supply.
would these symptoms appear if a power supply had gone sour? or would that tend to be more a motherboard issue....
any help GREATLY appreciated - im losing my mind.
