Leprekahn73
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I'm new so not sure if this is in the correct section.
System is:
Mainboard: EVGA nforce 780i SLI Motherboard - A1 Version
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor EU80580PJ0606M
CPU Fan: MASSCOOL 8WA741 92mm Ball CPU Cooler
Memory: OCZ SLI-Ready Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (4x2048MB)
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit DSP OEM DVD with Service Pack 1
DVD/Burner: Lite-On LH-20A1S SuperAllwrite SATA DVD Burner
PSU: Ultra X-Pro ULT40029 750-Watt Power Supply
Video: EVGA GeForce 8800 GT Video Card
Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB
I built two of these systems around may2008, one for me and one for my wife. The only difference between the two is she has 2 sticks of ram (I have 4 but same memory) and her video card is different (EVGA 640-P2-N829-CR GeForce 8800 GTS SSC Edition 640MB).
From the get go we both had problems with usb devices not waking up after sleep mode. That was fixed by using a usb to ps2 adapter.
Over the course of the past few weeks both of the systems were freezing (locking up might be a better word since everything stops working mouse, keyboard etc etc) and a hard boot was the only way out of it. This seemed to occur around the same time as the latest vista security update (possibly a coincedance).
This week the problem persisted for both pc's and then wednesday night when my wife's went down she hard booted to find that her registry was corrupted (I'm guessing this happened as a result of the hard boot) she put in her windows disk to repair the error only to find that the kernel was then corrupted as well. Windows seemed to fix the kernel problem during repair and she was able to use her system all day the next day with only a minor freeze untill vista installed the update again at which time her pc became hosed once again on reboot.
Now, my pc went down the next day locked up much like hers, but with no corrupt registry or kernel, however I did have to run a recovery from safe mode. I did notice when rebooting several times that the system was hanging on boot trying to recognize the lite-on optical drive. First thing I did when back up in vista was to flash the bios for my mainboard, update the firmware on the optical drive, and updated video card and mboard drivers. So far this seems to be working for me. it's only been a day since these updates so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it keeps working.
I can get a fresh vista install on the wife's pc but am more worried about what is causing the system to freeze up since I'd like to actually fix the problem that started all this rather then keep fixing the issue.
so my question is, is there a problem with older bios' on the 780i and is it possible this bios would mess with certain optical drives?
could the security update have anything to do with making this problem worse?
or is there a chance the latest security update caused a change that turned out critical for this certain optical drive?
anyone else have a problem like this?
any suggestions?
Not a huge tech head so any help is definetly appreicated
no viruses she runs nortan and I have been running kapersky.
System is:
Mainboard: EVGA nforce 780i SLI Motherboard - A1 Version
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor EU80580PJ0606M
CPU Fan: MASSCOOL 8WA741 92mm Ball CPU Cooler
Memory: OCZ SLI-Ready Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (4x2048MB)
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit DSP OEM DVD with Service Pack 1
DVD/Burner: Lite-On LH-20A1S SuperAllwrite SATA DVD Burner
PSU: Ultra X-Pro ULT40029 750-Watt Power Supply
Video: EVGA GeForce 8800 GT Video Card
Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB
I built two of these systems around may2008, one for me and one for my wife. The only difference between the two is she has 2 sticks of ram (I have 4 but same memory) and her video card is different (EVGA 640-P2-N829-CR GeForce 8800 GTS SSC Edition 640MB).
From the get go we both had problems with usb devices not waking up after sleep mode. That was fixed by using a usb to ps2 adapter.
Over the course of the past few weeks both of the systems were freezing (locking up might be a better word since everything stops working mouse, keyboard etc etc) and a hard boot was the only way out of it. This seemed to occur around the same time as the latest vista security update (possibly a coincedance).
This week the problem persisted for both pc's and then wednesday night when my wife's went down she hard booted to find that her registry was corrupted (I'm guessing this happened as a result of the hard boot) she put in her windows disk to repair the error only to find that the kernel was then corrupted as well. Windows seemed to fix the kernel problem during repair and she was able to use her system all day the next day with only a minor freeze untill vista installed the update again at which time her pc became hosed once again on reboot.
Now, my pc went down the next day locked up much like hers, but with no corrupt registry or kernel, however I did have to run a recovery from safe mode. I did notice when rebooting several times that the system was hanging on boot trying to recognize the lite-on optical drive. First thing I did when back up in vista was to flash the bios for my mainboard, update the firmware on the optical drive, and updated video card and mboard drivers. So far this seems to be working for me. it's only been a day since these updates so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it keeps working.
I can get a fresh vista install on the wife's pc but am more worried about what is causing the system to freeze up since I'd like to actually fix the problem that started all this rather then keep fixing the issue.
so my question is, is there a problem with older bios' on the 780i and is it possible this bios would mess with certain optical drives?
could the security update have anything to do with making this problem worse?
or is there a chance the latest security update caused a change that turned out critical for this certain optical drive?
anyone else have a problem like this?
any suggestions?
Not a huge tech head so any help is definetly appreicated
no viruses she runs nortan and I have been running kapersky.
I had hot glued them to the Seagates and work for a while until I got tire of tugging on it every few days. Last week I replaced them with after market ones with a thicker and stronger snapping thingy. Also the case seems stiffer. They are working ok so far with my fingers crossed.