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ok well i installed 2 8600gts cards in my rig (setup is in my signiture) and it kept resetting itself so i went back to an old graphics card that i know works fine and now my system keeps freezing sometimes in windows and sometimes before, i have tried changing my hard-drive, clearing c-mos and i have taken the entire computer apart and rebuilt it to check all connections, i have no more ideas as to what it could be as everything was bought new over the last month or 2, any ideas as to whats going on? thanks in advance, loki.

ok well my sig didnt show so the setup i'm using is as follows

asus m2n32 ws pro mobo
AMD athlon 64 5400x2 black edition cpu
2x 1gb ocz pc2 6400 gold ram
850 watt alpha power psu
swiftech h20 120 compact water cooler
ATI radeon 1650 graphics card

I really don't like the look of that PSU. I worryingly can't find any specs of what amps its voltage rails can provide, which is the key to power supplies (rather than their overall wattage rating), so odds are it's over-rating itself as to the power it can output.

Did you reformat and re-install windows between card swaps? Or uninstall graphics drivers then run driver cleaner pro? It could be some left over conflict in drivers from switching between nvidia and ATI.

Dan

well i did uninstall the drivers between swapping out the cards, but i also tried booting with a different hard drive in and my normal one unplugged so if there was a driver conflict it wouldn't matter anyway??

Was the other hard drive a new install? Try running memtest86+ for a couple of passes to check the memory.

Dan

i can't it either freezes just after i get into windows or before that so i cant run anything, the power supply has always been fine it ran my hd2900xt with no problems

memtest is a boot cd and runs from CD outside of windows.

If the other hard drive is from a different computer and had windows installed when it was plugged into that one, then put it in your new pc and expecting it to work isn't going to happen. Windows customises itself to the hardware it is running on when you install it, so if the hardware (most importantly the mobo) isn't identical in the second PC you try and use it with you are going to run into problems.

Dan

it was a blank hard-drive i tryed a fresh install of windows but it just freezes, i also tryed 2 run boot n nuke 2 blank my other hard-drive but that wouldnt run either

Does it freeze up if you run with just 1 card?

yeah it did, i've been trying to run it with an old graphics card i have that i know works fine but it just freezes up no matter what within 2 mins of me turning it on now.

ok well i'm testing the psu in an old system (amd sempron 3300 on a random foxconn board with 1 gig of ram) and it seems to be working fine it maybe that its not under much stress so i may order another mobo to test my setup on??

I'm leaning towards Dan's assessment of your PSU. You old system you're testing it on is far less demanding of your PSU than your new set up with two 8600 cards in SLI so just because it's running your old system with no problems doesn't necessarily mean it can keep up with the draw of your new system.

i had a problem with frezzing a few months back, i built a new system and it would freeze after booting up after a few min.- it turned out to be the CPU. do you have another system you can test the CPU in?

no i dont have the means to test my cpu or mobo, but i've had no problem with either up until now.

ok well it looks like i'm ordering an ocz stealth 600w psu to test my setup with so i'll know if its the psu or not.

ok so i bought a jeantech storm 700 and got exactly the same problem so thought screw this bought an asus m2n32 sli dlx wi-fi to try this time and it wont even post i am now thinking of having a lovely bonfire in my garden of all things electical! i'm thinking my cpu could have been damaged somehow? so my setup is

asus m2n32 sli dlx wi-fi
amd athlon x2 5400 black edition
2x 1gb ocz gold
jeantech storm 700
ati radeon 1650 (only as i know this works)

any idea's?

haven't been on here in a while as i had no internet connection until today

ok well my rig will now power up but i get no video out of it??
i have checked the video card works so does the screen and the cable, i attached a buzzer but got no codes coming out of it, i have tried both pci-e slots and still get no video can anyone suggest anything else?