My "super computer" still keeps crashing. Not as often, but it crashes harder now. Now after a crash it won’t even boot fully into the BIOS screen (it sticks on "detecting IDE" portion) unless I open it up and fiddle with stuff lol.

The screen will freeze up, nothing works, and it makes a sound like if you hold a key down and it hits the end of the line, only lower pitched. I can imitate the sound but sadly (or mercifully) you can’t hear me lol.

The time before last when I tried to get it to boot the Vista install disc to repair it, I got an error message saying the DVD was not detected, so I checked the power and SATA cables to the DVD. I am using a serial SATA power cable for both my HDD’s and my DVD (total of 3 connections on one cable). It is connected to the 1st rail which is 12v, all 4 rails are 12v BTW. The 5 case fans are also connected to that rail (only rail those components can connect to). my GFX card is connnected to the 4th rail with both a 6 pin and 8 pin PCI cable. I just made that connection, before I had one cable on the 4th rail and one on the 3rd rail, i screwed up when swapping out from 2 cards to one, the manual says each card should have both connections from the same rail, IE 1 card on the 3rd and 1 card on the 4th. While it’s too soon yet to know if that was causing the problem, or even if it’s possible for it to cause the problem, I’m wondering if my PSU is bad, or maybe my DVD drive. How can I tell?

Also, I ghave a Razer Lachersis gaming mouse. Occasionally it goes a bit haywire and won’t track smoothly, and I have to reboot to get it working right. What would cause this? Am I making any sense lol?