I'm back (again)

Sooo.... This time it's a bit more serious.

Yesterday: Ok well my system has been running without a single hiccup since November on WinXP, which is a miracle because so far it never lasts longer then 2 weeks.
Last night, I was doing FTP work and playing CoD2, nothing I don't do daily, I turn it off normally like I always do, and once it shuts down, I turn the PSU off to cut all power off, and I go to bed. In the morning I get up, turn it on, and go to the bathroom, by the time I get back it's always already at the desktop ready to roll. This morning, it wasn't, it was loading XP still, but the loading bar was moving slowly, freezing every so often. I let it continue for 4 hours, knowing full well there was something wrong but hoping it was just having a bad day.
Saddened, I reboot it, select "Last Known Good Config" and I get the same thing, reboot again, I select Safe Mode, and it starts loading, and then gets stuck on loading kernel something. Stays like that for 5 hours. I reboot again, pop in the WinXP CD, hoping that a repair install will save my rump. After it loads, it stays for a long time on "reading information" and then goes to the screen where it asks, repair console or install windows, so I do install, and then it starts examining my disk, and just hangs there. "Examining <Mbs amount> at disk 0 at id 0 at bus 0 on atapi..."
I got past it once, but then it hung on "detecting previous windows installations"

I had three other HDs on there, one with Vista, and another with XP as well. None of them will boot up, the Vista one will stay at a black screen, and the WinXP one will just keep loading XP forever (with the bar thing going at normal speed).

I had some spare (100% working) RAM, and I popped mine out, and put those in, hoping it was a RAM problem, but it does the same thing.

I tried a different PSU as well, no go. I put the HDs into another computer and did a disk check on them, and they all diagnosed healthy and 100% working, but I can't boot from them on other computer either (they all do the same thing as on mine)

This morning: Got a repair install going... it's going soooooooooo slow though.. and it's a SATA drive.. It's been copying the Setup files for 3 hours now and it's only at 28%

This afternoon: I gave it one last try today, and I ripped out all extra hardware other then mobo, cpu, ram, cpu, 1 dvd drive, 1 hd and video card. And I tried doing another repair install, and it's been progressing much faster then last night, though not as fast as it should, but it's a good sign. I shall update when and if the repair process is successful.

I think it was either my sound card (Live 24bit from Creative) or my TV Tuner card. Whats good is that if it's my sound card, my Xfi just came in so yey

Now: It finished copying files, and it's stuck on "saving configuration" right before it reboots and starts repairing windows. I tried rebooting and trying to see if it'll go to the setup screen, but it just does the slow bar thing. So I did the repair install again, and it's stuck at "saving configuration" again and it's been there for several hours.

Advice?

(I think imma donate after this problem is fixed >.>)

Welcome back...

Slow operations usually fall in the HijackThis catagory.
Recommend you do the Pre-Work link in my signature.

Good Luck...

P.S. Can I have the film rights to your posting?
P.S.S. Can you top my donation?

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I can't boot into anything at all. Nothing.

You said, "I ripped out all extra hardware other then mobo, cpu, ram, cpu, 1 dvd drive, 1 hd and video card." Can you remove your video card and connect the monitor to the motherboard? If you can, remove the DVD drive as well. If your sound card is still connect remove that too.

Now you've eliminated everything but the CPU and the clock. If you were FTPing when all this started, then I suspect you caught a bug. Have you backed up your C: drive? Can you reformat and reload from the backup? I don't know how that works on a multi-system drive. If not, then all I can suggest is bite the bullet and reformat.

Perhaps one of the brain trust can come up with some alternative. I hope so.

Good Luck...

Thanks for the reply, sadly I don't have a vid connector on mobo (darn those new mobos :P) . The only things connected right now are, PSU, RAM, Mobo, CPU, HD (keyboard, mouse, screen). Nothing else, no PCI cards, no other IDE/SATA hardware, nothing. Still won't boot.

I plugged in a DVD drive, and went ahead and put a HD in, formatted it, and started installing Vista. It went incredibly slow, took well over 20 hours to install and get to the screen where you setup the username and whatnot, and when it got there, the system was extremely sluggish and choppy, clicking on anything would have a 10 minute dela
y before doing anything.

I know it's either the motherboard or the CPU. Is there a way I can pinpoint exactly which of the two? I don't have any other LGA775 CPUs and nothing I have here will fit into my motherboard.


(I seem to always solve my problems alone O.o)

I don't know for sure if you can tell, but I think it's CPU. I see from your PC info that you're overclocking it. That can kill the CPU or at least make it quite unstable. I suggest setting it to normal clock speed, and if that doesn't work, it's a Core 2 Duo so I'm assuming it's fairly new and still under warranty. RMA it.

Man...you're having nothing but troubles

You might have mentioned this earlier...but i'll be ****** if i'm reading everything while i'm at work

Have you removed the CPU and put it back in? Making sure it's seated correctly?