My PC is down for the count..

Not sure what is going on but, woke up this morning and it was frozen. Restart, Frozen, would not load.. Re-installed windows all went well until i tried to load video drivers, and froze again.. Thinking it might be the video card but really acts like a direct X problem.. Stuck at work but will work on it when i get home.. Sucks! If anyone shows up for Monday night Madness, please someone take the helm and make it happen.. If it is my video card, i have a backup, an 8800GT MONSTROSITY card... Anyways, wish me luck and i hope to be back on soon, provided it's not another piece of hardware. I live way in the boonies so, sigh..

welcome to my world

Hope you can figure it out

have you tried an older video driver? sometimes that helps

Any luck whith the PC ?

Steelhed did you get a...

"Blue Screen"

Windows just not loading...

Funky Graphic Issues

Did Windows shoot you any code errors?

Was their a recent power outage? I had something similar happen after this. It was an Intel Motherboard Controller that kept the HD from loading the software. Power outage disabled it and I just had to go into the Bios to enable it.

OMG, had a similar problem over the weekend. PC would run for 10 minutes, then the lights in the room would flicker and the PC would abruptly shut off. First thought power supply was going bad but found that the video card was overheating. I've had this EVGA 8800GTX card for over a year so today I carefully removed the housing for the cooling fan and fins. To my surprise they had applied way too much contact gel on the video processor and the cooling fins were full of goop and dust bunnies. I cleaned off the excess goop, cleaned the fins and the fan, reassembled and it runs cooler now than it ever has..! EVGA must've elminated their quality control to save a few bucks that year!?!

Ive got a few spare parts laying around if it will help

Well, my PC woe's continued.. All the things I thought were wrong with it, turned out it was an Illusion. The fact that it appeared that I fixed it threw me off.. It turned out to be my video card intermittently failing.. It finally went caput this morning after a week of being off and on. Fortunately, me living out in the boonie's, I had a backup card but, it does not perform near as well as my GT 240 did... I am going to attempt to purchase the exact same card, and re-box it and take it back to the store with my old card in it.. Let them deal with the RMA process.. Anyways, I can still play BC2 with my 8800, just on lower settings..

Sorry for being in and out this past week, it really threw me for a loop.. Been a while since I had to spend THAT much time trying to figure out an issue. Kinda like a power supply intermittently failing, it can send you down the wrong part of the trouble tree.. Thanks for the responses and the offers of parts guys...

Ha! An 8800, what an antique.
Wait, ...that's what I'm running!

I feel your pain I lost my PC a couple weeks ogo so I upgraded well Let me restate that I changed every thing but the case and sound card.

new specs

1000 watt antec power
i7 Intel extreme 3.33 ghz 6 core
6 gig corzair ram
sound sb x-fi extreme
Nvidia GTX 480
6 fans
windows 7 64bit pro


loads fast but it does not help me play any better. (LOL)

I am hopping that I do not have to do this again for a long long time.

If you are going to up grade any time soon the I7 is a more of I have bigger toys that yours thing that a buddy of mine and I play. A good quad core will do just as well and cost a whole lot less.

WOW! Nice rig Helltamer.. You should be set for quite a while.. Good to know you're still around.. Should be able to handle Homefront Juuust fine

looks similar to the new rig i'm gettin ready to build in about a month or so here are the specs for mine,

COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

ASUS Rampage III Formula LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

2 EVGA 012-P3-1470-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory

Noctua NH-C12P SE14 140mm SSO CPU Cooler

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

the only thing i might change is the case and if i do i'll go with the antec 1200

3rdBat wrote:

Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor

How can you justify that i7, or even afford it for that matter, damn it is nice, but for 1000 bucks... I would love to have that chip but it will never happen.