Back again, and imagine that, with another problem with a machine. I swear computers are allergic to me, I even kill credit cards.
Here's my situation, I just bought these parts to put together a pretty fair machine:
Asus P5N32-Sli Deluxe
Pentium D 3.0
(2) Patriot PDC22G5600+XBLK DDR2 1GB
Xtasy Radeon X850xt 256MB PCI-e
(2) WD 10K SATA 74.3MB ( in RAID-0 )
Powered by an Antec Neo HE550
running WinXP Pro
Everything installed without a hitch, got the drivers for the RAID off the ASUS supplied disc; installed XP on the RAID setup with no glitches. Latest drivers for the video card, BAM computer turns off... repeated, at no set time or task, sometimes quick, sometime it will run for an hour. Took it to Fry's (where I purchased everything) and had them run a complete diagnostics on the system. Hardware-wise everything checked out (motherboard, cpu, PSU, video card, hard-drives, etc.) They were only able to get it to crash while in XP, not at BIOS etc. Their answer for me was that it was more than likely the driver that came on the ASUS disc for the nVidia chipset was the issue, based off of the error log within XP.
So I just brought it home, started a complete reinstall of XP loading the nVidia RAID controllers to install XP on the drives, and during the first copying phase of the XP files, it shut off. It was still in the blue window phase, had not reached the full XP GUI interface. Should I assume that it could be the nVidia RAID drivers are bad?, or possibly the floppy I have them on? Or would you suspect a hardware issue at this point?
The Fry's service tech said that if it still repeated it, he would change out the CPU and motherboard for me, and test it. but until then, what do you guys think?
[i]EDIT[i] : the ASUS disc also has a Silicon Image SATA driver, should I try that, or is that not for XP?
Here's my situation, I just bought these parts to put together a pretty fair machine:
Asus P5N32-Sli Deluxe
Pentium D 3.0
(2) Patriot PDC22G5600+XBLK DDR2 1GB
Xtasy Radeon X850xt 256MB PCI-e
(2) WD 10K SATA 74.3MB ( in RAID-0 )
Powered by an Antec Neo HE550
running WinXP Pro
Everything installed without a hitch, got the drivers for the RAID off the ASUS supplied disc; installed XP on the RAID setup with no glitches. Latest drivers for the video card, BAM computer turns off... repeated, at no set time or task, sometimes quick, sometime it will run for an hour. Took it to Fry's (where I purchased everything) and had them run a complete diagnostics on the system. Hardware-wise everything checked out (motherboard, cpu, PSU, video card, hard-drives, etc.) They were only able to get it to crash while in XP, not at BIOS etc. Their answer for me was that it was more than likely the driver that came on the ASUS disc for the nVidia chipset was the issue, based off of the error log within XP.
So I just brought it home, started a complete reinstall of XP loading the nVidia RAID controllers to install XP on the drives, and during the first copying phase of the XP files, it shut off. It was still in the blue window phase, had not reached the full XP GUI interface. Should I assume that it could be the nVidia RAID drivers are bad?, or possibly the floppy I have them on? Or would you suspect a hardware issue at this point?
The Fry's service tech said that if it still repeated it, he would change out the CPU and motherboard for me, and test it. but until then, what do you guys think?
[i]EDIT[i] : the ASUS disc also has a Silicon Image SATA driver, should I try that, or is that not for XP?
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