So i put a computer together this summer, I went to the AMD/Microsoft "tech tour" and purchased an Asus A8N-E socket 939 mobo with Athlon 64 bit processor and Windows XP64 Pro. I then bought a SATA 150 HD, video card, etc. and put it together in a nifty case with all kinds of LEDs.
The computer worked great for about a week and a half. Then one day it just got stuck on the welcome screen. rebooted, same thing. Left it alone for a few hours, fired it up, same thing. Then i left it on, and it ended up booting up after several hours, but it was running sooooooooo bloody slow i couldn't do anything except hold the power button and shut it off.
came back to it a day later, and it booted up just fine...but then not more than a few days later, i was stuck again on the welcome screen.
I repaired windows, and it worked for a few days...then i reinstalled windows, formatted the HD, and it worked...again only for a few days.
Here i am about 6 weeks, 12 bottles of asprin, and many renstalls later, i am not getting anywhere...I even tried installing it on a IDE HD in case there was something wrong with the SATA.
It seems like reinstalling windows buys me about a 4-7 days of a functional computer, but then it is right back to square zero.
Any ideas? could it be a hardware or software problem? A buddy of mine went to the same convention and has the same mobo/processor, but his works fine. I am not a super computer guy or anything, so any help would be appreciated
THANKS!!
The computer worked great for about a week and a half. Then one day it just got stuck on the welcome screen. rebooted, same thing. Left it alone for a few hours, fired it up, same thing. Then i left it on, and it ended up booting up after several hours, but it was running sooooooooo bloody slow i couldn't do anything except hold the power button and shut it off.
came back to it a day later, and it booted up just fine...but then not more than a few days later, i was stuck again on the welcome screen.
I repaired windows, and it worked for a few days...then i reinstalled windows, formatted the HD, and it worked...again only for a few days.
Here i am about 6 weeks, 12 bottles of asprin, and many renstalls later, i am not getting anywhere...I even tried installing it on a IDE HD in case there was something wrong with the SATA.
It seems like reinstalling windows buys me about a 4-7 days of a functional computer, but then it is right back to square zero.
Any ideas? could it be a hardware or software problem? A buddy of mine went to the same convention and has the same mobo/processor, but his works fine. I am not a super computer guy or anything, so any help would be appreciated
THANKS!!