Mobo: Gigabyte P67A-UD3
CPU: Inte Sandybridge i7 2600k overclocked to 4.7ghz
SSD: Intel X-25M 160g
RAM: 8gb DDR3 1600mhz
GPU: Gainward GTX 570
PSU: Coolermaster 850w
About two weeks ago I started having issues starting up the system from cold, as well as restarting after I'd been using it for a while. I had not made any changes to the hardware since my friend put the machine together.
One of three things will happen at boot-up:
1) I will get this blackscreen with wierd ascii lettering
http://imgur.com/ESIdJ and cannot go any further.
2) The system will hang at "Detecting IDE Drive" and will then go to a disk boot failure, please enter system disk etc...
3) the systenm will boot up properly, maybe one in every 20 attempts and will run very poorly, and will probably crash after a minute or so.
Initially we thought it was a graphics card issue, and so I took the card in to the retailer, but it tested perfectly so it can't be that. Have any of you guys ever experienced this sort of issue, and if so what was causing the problem, and how did you fix it?
