soccerpimp09

Ah speedfan was exactly what i was looking for - thank you :) -

Got it to load.. i think.. increased MB voltage a little... but she is loading very slowly... hmm - must need to further tweek the bios.... Any suggestions on good CPU temp etc... monitoring programs? Edit - sorry for the double post... merge if possible?

thank you for the welcome - and no.. vista never gets installed.. i try booting from the disk (inorder to install it) and it never gets past that blank (er.. plain.. since it displays the background) - screen...

So i decided to build my first computer - after a lot of research i ended up with: antec 900 Gigabyte x48-ds4 q6600 sapphire 4870 corsair 750tx lite-on dvd/cd xigmatek rife 120mm cooler ocz reaper 800 (4gb) It starts up fine - I went ahead and set the mem timings to factory recommendations and voltage.. but when it starts running vista from disk - it gets to the black screen with the green load bar - goes to the standard vista background... and just stops... blank.. background... nothing else... and I have tried pulling out 1 set of ram... diff. ram voltages... I really don't know what else to do... Its 15 mins into memtest86 without a problem... Anyone have any ideas? perhaps some bios things i should turn on or off? I'm really stumped - and since its my first.. have no clue what i'm doing... Thanks in advance...