» Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:48 am Was hoping some PC vets might be able to assist me with a strange problem I've got.
First, my pc specs
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Component Upgrades
Case Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred
Power Supply Corsair 750W HX Modular PSU
Processor Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz Highly Overclockable
Overclocking Extreme
Processor Cooler Corsair H60 Water Cooling System
RAM 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz/PC12800
Motherboard ASUS SABERTOOTH P67
Graphics card Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Hard Drive Corsair 120GB SSD Solid State Drive Force3
2nd Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive 7200rpm 32MB Cache
3rd Hard Drive None
Sound card Asus Xonar D2X
Optical Drive Sony 24x DVD/CD ± Re-Writer Black
2nd Optical Drive None
Network card Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps
Wireless Card None
Memory Card Reader None
Extra Ports None
I also use a Wireless logitech keyboard, a G13 Logitech gamepad, and a Logietch gaming mouse (plugged in through USB). I run the comp through my Samsung TV
Component Upgrades
Case Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred
Power Supply Corsair 750W HX Modular PSU
Processor Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz Highly Overclockable
Overclocking Extreme
Processor Cooler Corsair H60 Water Cooling System
RAM 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz/PC12800
Motherboard ASUS SABERTOOTH P67
Graphics card Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Hard Drive Corsair 120GB SSD Solid State Drive Force3
2nd Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive 7200rpm 32MB Cache
3rd Hard Drive None
Sound card Asus Xonar D2X
Optical Drive Sony 24x DVD/CD ± Re-Writer Black
2nd Optical Drive None
Network card Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps
Wireless Card None
Memory Card Reader None
Extra Ports None
I also use a Wireless logitech keyboard, a G13 Logitech gamepad, and a Logietch gaming mouse (plugged in through USB). I run the comp through my Samsung TV
So, I've had this PC since about February of last year. It was fine for about a month or so and then started to 'hang' on the boot screen (where the little windows colourful logo flys in). On windows 7 this would often result in a reset or holding the power button. When the computer came back on, I would try to detect problems and nothing would come up. If I 'start PC as normal' then often it would simply boot up as normal with no problems.
This went on for about 6 months.. was originally 1 in 10 times, then started to get progressively worse until it was every other time. Looking at the loading pattern there was occasionally the odd .sys file that seemed not to load.
Thinking I might have a corrupt windows 7, I upgraded to Windows 8 a few months back (download pack that i'm assuming installs over windows 7). The problem seemed to go away for a couple of weeks and then started to return.
Now, on the blue logo screen, the little swirly loading icon doesn't appear or occasionally I just get a black screen without even the blue logo. If I hit reset 9 times out of 10 it will just reload and go straight through. (no more windows didn't shut down properly/load properly messages.)
I'm thinking it's 1 of a few things. Could the power not be strong enough for my machine? If I was getting .sys missing messages on Windows 7 and simply upgraded to windows 8 could this be a problem? Using an SSD drive could this be causing it? (It seems to cause major problems when loading in ACHI? mod rather than IDE which I swapped back to after getting the problems again.
I need to re-iterate that once I get through to Windows, i rarely have any problems and the computer runs smoothly with no graphics/lag/slowdown/rarely crashes etc.
Has anyone experienced this? Anyone got any ideas?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
