I recently built a new rig (only saved the hard drive and the cd/dvd drive). I spent hours and hours and HOURS trying to install windows vista and it kept freezing in the same or around the same areas. The mouse would freeze, the keyboard and everything else would stop responding, and the computer would shut itself off after about 5 minutes of it just sitting there locked up.
After a few days of troubleshooting i discovered it was my ram. I left one stick in and installed windows, and had high hopes that the problem would be solved after I installed mobo drivers, but nope. The problem persisted, freezing at the windows loading screen after I placed the second stick back in. When I place the two sticks in single channel, they work. But just like the windows installation, the computer will freeze anywhere from the loading screen of windows to the first minute of the desktop and will turn off after a few minutes.
my specs:
2GB Corsair PC2 6400 (DDR2)
Abit FP-IN9 SLI by Fatal1ty (Nforce 650i)
Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)
Intel Core Duo E6750
EVGA 8800GTS Superclock
120GB HD
Five Case Fans
600w Power Supply
I've spent hours looking on different forums, messing around with bios settings, adjusting voltages, etc. My friend's computer who has 2gb of the same ram let me put his ram in his computer to test it out and it worked flawlessly. I think i'm going to try a different brand of ram tomorrow, but i'm afraid that it won't make a difference =\
It just really sucks, everything is brand spankin new...any help would really be appreciated =]
After a few days of troubleshooting i discovered it was my ram. I left one stick in and installed windows, and had high hopes that the problem would be solved after I installed mobo drivers, but nope. The problem persisted, freezing at the windows loading screen after I placed the second stick back in. When I place the two sticks in single channel, they work. But just like the windows installation, the computer will freeze anywhere from the loading screen of windows to the first minute of the desktop and will turn off after a few minutes.
my specs:
2GB Corsair PC2 6400 (DDR2)
Abit FP-IN9 SLI by Fatal1ty (Nforce 650i)
Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)
Intel Core Duo E6750
EVGA 8800GTS Superclock
120GB HD
Five Case Fans
600w Power Supply
I've spent hours looking on different forums, messing around with bios settings, adjusting voltages, etc. My friend's computer who has 2gb of the same ram let me put his ram in his computer to test it out and it worked flawlessly. I think i'm going to try a different brand of ram tomorrow, but i'm afraid that it won't make a difference =\
It just really sucks, everything is brand spankin new...any help would really be appreciated =]