SaintVicious

Hm.. ya'll think it may be video card ram? I havent installed anything really.. that I can remember. Might have been windows update though.. I always forget to turn that off. Oh and format? Yea right, I would buy a new hd before I formatted one of mine. To lose the 100's of gigs of data I have? Hah, no way. If I do need to buy a new one, I'll look into the external mounts for the old ones..

Alright.. I was watching a TV show on my computer the other day and in the middle of it it suddenly froze. I couldnt get it out of the freeze so I restarted the machine.. it powers up, boots, and begins to load windows.. the windows loading screen comes up and then right when it would of gone to the logon screen it powers off. I can get it up in safe mode but nothing I have tried has done it...Specs:3.6g P41gb ddr 400 ram300g sata hd200g sata hdgeforce mx440 8x ddrFixes I have tried:Windows RepairSwapping out the harddrive - does the same thing (So it cant be hd related)Swapping out ram - same thingCleaning out dust - nopeReset CMOS/BIOS - nopeI thought it might be bad ram.. but I swapped my ram out with a working stick and nothing. I have heard of something like this with agp problems, but my mobo handles 8x, it ran fine for a month or so.. I had it in the shop a month ago for a diffrent problem, came back good as new and with new parts..Anyone heard of this? Any help would be appreciated.. thanks

I use Serial ATA as well, a 200 and a 300 gig.. they wont be automatically detected, or at least they arent on my CMOS. What I do is enter the bios, go to Intergrated Periphials (sp?) then IDE devices, then you must set the Serial ATA option at the bottom.. its defaulted to 'Disable' which is why it wont work.. select 'Auto' or something else and it should work..