The first time I started it up it crashed as windows loaded up, telling me there was a problem with a hardware device.
Had to boot up in safe mode and I eventually figured out it was the graphics card, which I disabled, whereafter I was able to boot in normal mode.
The retailers sent my pc back to the manufacturers for the soundcard to be replaced, which took 3 months.
Guess what... I start it up for the first time after getting it back and it crashes again - exactly the same problem.
Disable the graphics card in safe mode - and hey - no problem rebooting in normal mode.
Tried updating all the Nvidia drivers and re-installs etc, with no luck.
I gave up at this point and accepted that I wasn't going to be able to play games on this pc.
Very occasionally, while in normal mode I was able to successfully enable the graphics card without a crash (although it would always crash on restart) so I thought maybe I'll try a few games anyway for the few times that the graphics card manage to run.
Beginning of this year I bought BF42 and finally got internet.
Obviously I wanted to play online so downloaded and installed all the BF42 updates and PB etc.
Since that day my pc has never crashed on start -up. Ever.
I'm not sure what BF42 had to do with this, but for personal reasons I'm just gonna believe that BF42 saved my pc
