Computer driving me crazy after gtx 560 ti upgrade

Hi guys

I am in need of some help:

here is my setup:

Intel i7-930 stock
16 gb of Gskill DDR3-1600
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
evga gtx 560 ti (was 8800gt)
windows 7
2 hdds -
1. western digital
2. seagate


Here is my problem:

I had to upgrade my video card as I was noticing some problems with my monitor as it often freezes. everything was frozen, no mouse movement, nothing. Sometimes I see parallel lines so I knew it was time to upgrade my video card.

I bought a gtx 560 ti and everything went downhill from there.

1. when i first installed it, it booted up, stalled at the windows loading screen (before login) and it turned off by itself.

2. after that weird fiasco, it took a LONG time (longer than usual. before the video card upgrade the login screen would just pop up right away) for the login screen to appear.

3. once logged in. everything seems to run normal, BUT, A BIG BUT. once in awhile my programs either firefox, adobe illustrator, etc. would just stall, it's "not responding" for 5 seconds and then goes back to normal.

4. I wanted to test out my new video card with batman so after playing the first level it crashed on me.


5. I also had this incident with the western digital that was installed. This checkdisk ran when i booted up

checking file system on c:
the type of the file system is NTFS

one of your disks need to be checked for consistency. you may cancel the disks check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk.

chkdsk is verifying files (stage 1 of 3) ....
delete corrupt attribute record (128, "" )



so MY SOLUTIONS SO FAR:

1. i thought it was my RAM before i noticed that when i changed my ram in the bios to 1600mhz it wouldn;t boot so i had to set it at 1033 or something like that.

i booted up the computer with just one stick of ram, but everything seemed ok.


2. took out my western digital (thought it was hard drive) and then put my old seagate hard drive in there and decided to reformat.

during reformat, the process took longer than I remembered. i had to force reset at one point.

a. finished reformating, but after the force reset, it booted to windows loading, and it turned off by itself again.
b. now i am looking at the checkdisk screen again and doing the same thing as my western digital.



please, can somebody help me or tell me what to do or what to replace....

i just want to play skyrim and bf3 already.

What is your PSU? looks like your cpu was not handling the video card before, and now got even worse.

I have a 600 watt psu, by thermaltake

and also i have already tested each individual memory and all of them exhibited the same behavior - long loading time to the login screen.

and im not sure if this is a crucial aspect, but my mobo doesn't take 1600 RAM but i didn't have this issue when i was using my 8800gt. I've had my memory couple months back now.

but is your memory Overclocked to 1600? if the mobo does not support, i don't think you are running at 1600, are you?

anyways the 600watts looks enough for one 560 ti so i'm not sure if it is psu problem now.

EDIT: post up here was not there yet +1 up here, thermaltake reviews always are bad, the psus are always rated 100watts over their max power, so i would try changing psu if the post up here does not work.

that is more than enough unless you are thinking in going for SLI you will not need 850w.

but that price (U$99) is great, so if you can do that you can that one.

otherwise i would suggest corsair gs600 (or 700)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] ir%20gs600

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139020


only if you are thinking about sli or you have some discount go for 800+

just switched to video card and still stalling on starting windows screen. the first time it went to check disk process again, but second time it's stuck on the starting windows screen...

what a nightmare