DesktopPC meltdown

well heres the problem im having NOW:

i did reformat

when i run a perfectly fresh version of windows, It starts crashing before i even have a chance to download and install sp1.

for some reason my original problem board refuses to boot at all.

the only reason i mention the video card is bc i never had this problem until i switched boards. it may be that windows installed an update in the background and it was just coincidentally the same time i installed the card. in fact thats (probably) what it is. but regardless, the first 3 "paragraphs" i just typed above are what are confounding me the most.
I'm not even going to ask if you installed the chipset drivers or let Vista patch itself before you tried to dl SP1; if I find out you did, I'm going to stab myself in the eye... :cry: Also, if you don't think the details of this new board are important, I'm not going to press the issue.

Reboot the machine, go into the bios and load the optimized defaults. Save your changes and reboot.

Get this: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ Save it to your desktop then unplug your ethernet. Boot into Safe Mode and run Driver Sweeper. Wipe out all the nvidia drivers. Reboot.

Right click on Computer and select properties. Click 'Advanced System Settings'. Under the 'Startup an Recovery' menu, click settings. Under 'System Failure' uncheck 'Automatically restart'. Exit out. If at any time during these next steps you get a bsod, write down the error.

Next, run a chkdsk for errors; cross your fingers and hope that no hardware has been damaged beyond repair. If chkdsk finds errors, let it fix them. While this is going on, if you have another machine burn SP1 and install it when chkdsk is finished doing its thing. Do not let Windows Update update your machine with 50 patches; patch directly to SP1. Now you can plug back in your ethernet.

Here's the tricky part. Install your chipset drivers. Don't use the one's on the CD; instead, get them from your mobo maker's site. *sigh* Please don't install the nVidia SATA driver.

With any luck, you will survive this without any BSOD's. Go to the Device Manager. Under IDE/ATA ATAPI look for an entry named nVidia nForce Serial ATA Controller. Highlight it and select properties, then select the Driver tab. If the Driver Provider is NVIDIA, uninstall it and reboot the machine. Upon reboot, Windows will load its own driver.

Report back.

This of course all assumes an nvidia chipset. It would be nice to know if we're now dealing with a different chipset, but... I suppose we can't just go spouting State secrets all over teh internets. :p
 
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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Fumz' Flux-Capacitor
    CPU
    E8400
    Motherboard
    DFI LP DK P35-T2RS
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill PC-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    500GB W.D. RE2 Primary 1TB W.D. Caviar GP WD10EACS
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
    Case
    Lian Li Lancool K62
    Cooling
    Thermalright Ultima-90/S-Flex 120mm
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Elite 4000 Ergonomic
    Internet Speed
    2.5MB/430
    Other Info
    D-Link DGL 4500
Could it not be that he's not loading the SATA drivers for Vista when installing it? I had this problem back with XP and if I didn't install them, it blue screened when loading.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
    Motherboard
    XFX MB-750I-72P9 NF750i
    Memory
    4096MB Corsair XMS2 PC-5400
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX470
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar DX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell 24" S2409W & Dell 20" E207WFP
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    750GB Western Digital Caviar Black & 500GB Samsung
    PSU
    750 watt Thermaltake Toughpower
    Case
    Coolermaster Dominator 690 Nvidia Edition
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT Cooler, 6x 120mm Chassis Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 Laser Mouse (2007 edition)
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11 Keyboard
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
    Other Info
    abit airpace 54mbps wireless PCI-E x1 card
I don't think so. Vista doesn't install like XP. It doesn't ask for SCSI or RAID drivers when installing; it doesn't need them. Besides, way back when this all started, he said he was getting the sata driver error. Some reading around shows that this error can cause all kinds of random havoc.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Fumz' Flux-Capacitor
    CPU
    E8400
    Motherboard
    DFI LP DK P35-T2RS
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill PC-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    500GB W.D. RE2 Primary 1TB W.D. Caviar GP WD10EACS
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
    Case
    Lian Li Lancool K62
    Cooling
    Thermalright Ultima-90/S-Flex 120mm
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Elite 4000 Ergonomic
    Internet Speed
    2.5MB/430
    Other Info
    D-Link DGL 4500
The option to load the drivers though is still there when you choose the partition to install to.

But was just a thought anyway.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
    Motherboard
    XFX MB-750I-72P9 NF750i
    Memory
    4096MB Corsair XMS2 PC-5400
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX470
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar DX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell 24" S2409W & Dell 20" E207WFP
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    750GB Western Digital Caviar Black & 500GB Samsung
    PSU
    750 watt Thermaltake Toughpower
    Case
    Coolermaster Dominator 690 Nvidia Edition
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT Cooler, 6x 120mm Chassis Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 Laser Mouse (2007 edition)
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11 Keyboard
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
    Other Info
    abit airpace 54mbps wireless PCI-E x1 card
lol ok wow. new problem: windows wouldnt even install. it would give me error codes during installation and stuff. also was getting BSODS with MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. obviously had to be mobo psu or cpu. i got a different version of windows at the store bc i technically was not supposed to be using that CD anyway. -there were still problems installing of course, which i figured there would be, so last resort swapped the psu for my old one. my pc is running so.... wow. i really really didnt want it to be the psu i mean i love corsair everyone said it would work and so did i, and now its running on the rosewill which will not run my gtx 260 which means even if my system is stable, i cant play ****ing crysis.

i said the problem didnt arise until i switched vgas but i also switched psus at the same time and being so stressed out about stuff led me to overlook it or just not want to get a new psu. so now im not crashing by random **** or memory management, so now ill be able to follow the instructions in that last post there about drivers. so now i have to find a damn psu that will run stable on my system AGAIN GAH

first thing i did was choose not to install updates during installation, which turned out to be a good move. i hate auto-update sooooo much, it would always minimize my games and now it caused me the most trouble in the history of this computer. for as long as im running an nvidia board i shall install all my updates MANUALLY

that last long post looks good so im about to follow those steps. and no i didnt install chipset drivers before downloading sp1
 

My Computer

Simple - RMA the PSU for another one.

No product is ever 100% perfect OOB (and by that I don't mean each individual item, but I mean in a batch of, say, a couple of hundred of PSUs, there is bound to be a (or even a few) bad ones....
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
    Manufacturer/Model
    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System) Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree) 2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
  • Operating System
    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
    CPU
    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
    Hard Drives
    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
    PSU
    Lenovo
    Case
    Lenovo
    Cooling
    Lenovo
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
    Keyboard
    Lenovo
    Internet Speed
    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
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