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[Rambo]

Well best of luck Nick, but what you're coming across sounds rather weird. I never had this much problem when I built mine and I have roughly the same specification, just an i5 processor instead.

Out of curiosity, how much did you spend on the motherboard? I got the Asus PAP55D

[iargue]

Everything in the computer is new. Got an i7 920, Gigabyte Ex58 mobo, 3gig corsair ram, new 1TB HDD and everything is compatible. The mobo has been sent back for testing and that was apparently fine and all the wires etc are in the correct place. I figured it might not be the RAM because I could get windows installed eventually....but then programs/games would close randomly and windows updates did not install properly etc etc....so that must have gotten corrupted during installation as well.

I am waiting for some new RAM to arrive at the moment. It is the same stuff the guy used to test the mobo. Everything he used to test it was the same as my build except for the RAM....which would suggest a RAM problem again.

I was hoping it would arrive today but the snow must have prevented the delivery.

It sounds like a bad os installation. Burn yourself a new cd from a different source and give it a go again.

[Oaken]

It sounds like a bad os installation. Burn yourself a new cd from a different source and give it a go again.

I have tried burning Windows 7 twice at the slowest speed, buring an illegal copy of windows XP twice which was also burned on the slowest speed and I even bought myself a legal copy of windows XP Home edition....nothing worked.

[iargue]

I have tried burning Windows 7 twice at the slowest speed, buring an illegal copy of windows XP twice which was also burned on the slowest speed and I even bought myself a legal copy of windows XP Home edition....nothing worked.

It absolutely could not be the RAM though. Ram would result it many many different issues. You can try the new ram I guess.


It may even be an I7 processing error :|

The best thing to do is to load this, http://thepiratebay....tCD_v10.1_(2009)__ET_

Burn that to a cd, boot from it, and select Testing Tools, Pc Check, and then Advanced Diagnostic Tests and test every single piece of hardware (Cant test ram from there, but Hiren has Memtest86 from the main menu)

[Waser Lave]

Try a flavour of Linux and see if that works.

[xZel]

Whats the wattage of your PSU and whats the company brand?

[Oaken]

Whats the wattage of your PSU and whats the company brand?

600w and Kingwin....

[Rambo]

600w and Kingwin....

Using 650 myself But that's more than adequate enough (your's, not mine).

[nicksmart21]

75c on your cpu? Holy crap. That's like 20 higher than my max

depend of the Cpu my Q6600 can go to 72º whit NO PROBLEM

INTEL IS ALWAYS INTEL