hey guys.
so here's my story, i really need some help here.
My computer started acting wonky and freezing up and rebooting and then occasionally it, when loading the post screen, it would be unable to detect my hard drive and would just sit there. i would either have to wait a while then boot up or unplug my HD and replug it in and then it would work.
Recently it had been getting really bad so i decided to format my C drive and reinstall windows. Upon reinstalling it would just BSOD when trying to load windows, usually towards the end, so i formatted again and tried installing again. Except this time even when i would go to load the windows disc, it would BSOD. So i thought <snipped>
Tonight i went out and bought a new hard drive thinking mine was just toast. I format it and partition off my drives and install windows, again BSOD when trying to load windows. At this point i'm pretty much convinced my motherboard is fried somehow. My motherboard is an eVGA 680i. I bought almost exactly a year ago. I'm guess the motherboard got messed up when trying to mess with bridge voltages for an OC.
Anyone else have some input before i go out and spend money on a new MB? Has anyone seen this problem? Also, what motherboard should i get to replace this one? I have 4 gigs of 800MHz ram and a quad core processor. I need a solid replacement as i do overclocking too.
Maybe something else is wrong? I can't really think that anything else would be wrong. The fact that my motherboard wouldn't detect the SATA drives upon booting those times prior makes me think it has to be the motherboard. What do you guys think???
Thanks in advance.
i'm looking at maybe ordering the eVGA 750i FTW board, only 150 bux after rebate. anyone know if this board would be any good for a replacement?
*edit* sorry mak...
also, i'd like to mention i did do other trouble shooting, i ran the memory test in the the vista setup and i did defrag and ran multiple hard drive checks, i just thought my SATA connection was wonky or something.
Can anyone else reassure me that it's my motherboard? I tried resetting my BIOS to default and it didn't help. And the blue screen only appears for a split second. Would I be getting problems like this with a fried CPU? I have the Q6600 and people were telling me to be pretty liberal with my OC, i only took it to 3.2 GHz and the temp never rose about 65C.
so here's my story, i really need some help here.
My computer started acting wonky and freezing up and rebooting and then occasionally it, when loading the post screen, it would be unable to detect my hard drive and would just sit there. i would either have to wait a while then boot up or unplug my HD and replug it in and then it would work.
Recently it had been getting really bad so i decided to format my C drive and reinstall windows. Upon reinstalling it would just BSOD when trying to load windows, usually towards the end, so i formatted again and tried installing again. Except this time even when i would go to load the windows disc, it would BSOD. So i thought <snipped>
Tonight i went out and bought a new hard drive thinking mine was just toast. I format it and partition off my drives and install windows, again BSOD when trying to load windows. At this point i'm pretty much convinced my motherboard is fried somehow. My motherboard is an eVGA 680i. I bought almost exactly a year ago. I'm guess the motherboard got messed up when trying to mess with bridge voltages for an OC.
Anyone else have some input before i go out and spend money on a new MB? Has anyone seen this problem? Also, what motherboard should i get to replace this one? I have 4 gigs of 800MHz ram and a quad core processor. I need a solid replacement as i do overclocking too.
Maybe something else is wrong? I can't really think that anything else would be wrong. The fact that my motherboard wouldn't detect the SATA drives upon booting those times prior makes me think it has to be the motherboard. What do you guys think???
Thanks in advance.
i'm looking at maybe ordering the eVGA 750i FTW board, only 150 bux after rebate. anyone know if this board would be any good for a replacement?
*edit* sorry mak...
also, i'd like to mention i did do other trouble shooting, i ran the memory test in the the vista setup and i did defrag and ran multiple hard drive checks, i just thought my SATA connection was wonky or something.
Can anyone else reassure me that it's my motherboard? I tried resetting my BIOS to default and it didn't help. And the blue screen only appears for a split second. Would I be getting problems like this with a fried CPU? I have the Q6600 and people were telling me to be pretty liberal with my OC, i only took it to 3.2 GHz and the temp never rose about 65C.