I've had Vista running on the rig below for a couple weeks now with absolutely no problem. The problems started after I put in a Wireless NIC for the time in between now and when the cable people get here to hook it up in my room. I would randomly get bsods, irql_not_less_or_equal mostly and sometimes page fault in nonpaged area. It was alright, after rebooting I could get back in. But now it's just being extraordinarily strange. All I'm trying to do is format and put a fresh install on here. When booting up, the majority of the time the screen will just freeze(note this is without having any OS on the hdd, it will freeze at the gigabyte pre-bios page, sometimes when I'm in the bios it will freeze, sometimes right after vista finishes loading the files on that first screen and it goes to that main windows loading green bar screen, and sometimes i'll be in the middle of installing vista(unpacking/entering serial) etc. It occurs at random points, that's why I don't understand. Prior to not having an OS on the system, I could only get in via safemode, when I did, I'd be okay for a minute or so, but then it would randomly freeze like all the other times and the cycle would start over again. I thought at first it'd be my temps or something overheating, but I checked them and they are fine, I even reduced everything back to stock, and system temp is around 29-30C and cpu temp is 34C so it can't be those. It can't be the HDD's because it'll happen even pre-bios. Oh I had already taken out the wireless NIC long before this. The times it doesn't just freeze, it gives a bsod after vista has finished loading the files on that first screen and usually it's irql not less or equal with
Sudden BSOD/Install Problem
0x000000a (0x0000275000c3cb70, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000001, 0xfffff800098879E6)
or the other is page fault in non paged area.
I've tried booting with the bare essentials, however the same errors ocurr.
Please don't respond with vista sucks or some retarded response like that. It's not vista, it's something in the hardware that I can't figure out.
Temporary Fix: I turned the computer on its side and now everything works. Oh yes, this is indeed a joyous occasion.
UPDATE: I put all the original hardware back in the system and am no longer getting the BSOD's but it still freezes at random intervals. =/
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