hello eveyone this is my first post 
Hopefully you guys can help me solve my issues. A friend put together a new system
antec neopower 500w
gygabyte p35c-ds3r rev 2.0 -mb
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 2.66GHz 1333MHz 12MB LGA775 -cpu
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 -ram
WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s -Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce 9600 GT 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 -video card
LG Super Multi Blu-ray Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive Black SATA GGW-H20L
The Lite-On 20X Super Allwrite IDE drive
running windows xp 64bit
He built the computer and was having problems with the system locking up, so he brought it over here to me. Its kinda weird because i haven't really dealt with too much of the 64bit. He figured the lock ups were vista ultimate so he purchased windows xp 64, and had me install it.
Anyways, the problems come when I tried to install programs and run games, otherwise it runs ok with a random locks every once and a while. For example he wanted me to install nero 8 which he bought, and everytime i get to the point where the program starts to install past the serial and all that, the computer totally freezes cant even crtl+alt+del it! must shut it off and turn it back on. Same thing with all games starts to run, then total freeze.
I was thinking it might be the video card, so i updated to the newest drivers and still had the same issue, so to test it, I put in a nvidia 7300, and still get the same problem. Next thing i did was update the rev of the bios on the motherboard, didn't help. pulled the powersupply out to make sure plenty of power was going to everything and it should work fine. updated the firmware on all the drives. ran memtest on it for several hours and no errors, so its not the ram. with all of these problems worked through, kinda running out of ideas here. Its a really just installed not much on there but the system! what do you think i should do next? already spent way too much time on this and am getting very frustrated
Hopefully you guys can help me solve my issues. A friend put together a new system antec neopower 500w
gygabyte p35c-ds3r rev 2.0 -mb
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 2.66GHz 1333MHz 12MB LGA775 -cpu
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 -ram
WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s -Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce 9600 GT 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 -video card
LG Super Multi Blu-ray Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive Black SATA GGW-H20L
The Lite-On 20X Super Allwrite IDE drive
running windows xp 64bit
He built the computer and was having problems with the system locking up, so he brought it over here to me. Its kinda weird because i haven't really dealt with too much of the 64bit. He figured the lock ups were vista ultimate so he purchased windows xp 64, and had me install it.
Anyways, the problems come when I tried to install programs and run games, otherwise it runs ok with a random locks every once and a while. For example he wanted me to install nero 8 which he bought, and everytime i get to the point where the program starts to install past the serial and all that, the computer totally freezes cant even crtl+alt+del it! must shut it off and turn it back on. Same thing with all games starts to run, then total freeze.
I was thinking it might be the video card, so i updated to the newest drivers and still had the same issue, so to test it, I put in a nvidia 7300, and still get the same problem. Next thing i did was update the rev of the bios on the motherboard, didn't help. pulled the powersupply out to make sure plenty of power was going to everything and it should work fine. updated the firmware on all the drives. ran memtest on it for several hours and no errors, so its not the ram. with all of these problems worked through, kinda running out of ideas here. Its a really just installed not much on there but the system! what do you think i should do next? already spent way too much time on this and am getting very frustrated
