[ahnunaki]

well i just finished building this custom pc and i installed vista home premium, but for some reason my computer will just freeze up and i have to restart, this usually happens when i try to install a program or an up date or something of that nature, and sometimes it will just restart as if there was a power surge or something

any help or suggestions would be awesome

[pjhutch]

Sounds like hardware, check that you have enough memory installed, use a CPU Temp program to check that it is not overheating. Also chekc the Event logs for anything software related that could cause it.

[AcaCandy]

Hi and welcome.

Also could be an underpowered power supply.

[Rich-M]

Ehat's incompatible memory most likely.

[ahnunaki]

here are my specs:
motherboard - asus a8n32-sli deluxe
cpu - amd 64 single core 2.4 oc'd to 3.2
cpu cooler - asus silent knight
memory - 4/512mb mushkin dual channel DDR
graphics - 2 nvidia bfg 9600 oc
power - kingwin 600w
storage - 4/80g seagate SATA setup on nvidia raid 0+1
1/20g ide
drives - sony cd/dvd rw & asus dvd rw with lightscribe
sound - no card yet

if this helps out any

also the sata raid drives have a jumper for either 3gbs or 1.5gbs cuently all 4 are on 3gbs,
32bit vista

[Rich-M]

Well I remember Mushkin used to have a configurator at their site I no longer see and as I remember their promo ram seldom worked with anything while their regular line was top notch..I would run memtest86 on the ram as it sounds like ram issues to me.
www.memtest86.com
You boot to a floppy disk or cd and run 4 complete tests where each test requires 8 passes so it can take 3-4 hours. But if any errors show up, you know the problem.
It sounds like you can boot but not do anything and Vista also has a memory checker though it it snot nearly as good as memtest and if you can go "Run,mdsched.exe and then hit enter to run

[AcaCandy]

Might I suggest not over clocking the cpu until you get the system working correctly.

[ahnunaki]

well i just ran windows memtest and no errors were found
2 passes with it

[Rich-M]

Well it's an indication but unfortunately not as good as memtest86.