Dammit well this blows! Christmas 2009 I bought myself a frigging sweet crazy fast i7 desktop with 9gb of ram,a 1tb drive and a huge crazy video card. I always build my PCs but from the specs of this desktop I couldn't build it for the price it was going for, so this rare occasion I bought prebuilt. It was a CG series Asus desktop. It was massive and in your face. I loved it.... At first anyways.
The damn thing kept locking up and crashing but I found out a warm reboot prevented it so I just lived with the issue. Other than that it was amazing. I was able to edit 1080p video real time, virtual synths ran practically real time and all the games I could throw at it were at max settings. I was in frigging heaven.
Last night I was just looking around for some samples for FL Studio and bam! The computer just shuts off and turns back on again. Now though it goes through all the system checks and then when its time to boot off the hard drive it just sits there with a black screen and a blinking cursor in the corner. I can't even get into the BIOS for some reason. I dunno if its the on board SATA controller thats toast or what. If I unplug the drive it says no bootable device but if I plug in any hard drive it doesnt do anything, just the black screen with cursor. I'm gonna check it out later and see if there is way I can flash the BIOS, if not Im just gonna pull everything out and get a better motherboard. I heard the one that came in my desktop was shit anyways.