that's what i thought too, i doubled check my soder connections on the chip but when he told me it did it before the chip, i figured, its not the chip then. I'll triple check things, but i doubt its anything i've done to it. I swear its a bad power supply, i feel it in my bones. Like, maybe the voltage is somehow wrong on it. Had this problem with a pc once. That switch on the back of the power supply was on the higher setting and nothing worked when i turned it on. Well things came on, but nothing worked, no picture, didn't load, cd drive didn't open. Which is kinda what this one does. Like wheni t's messing up and the pic is not showin, the drive won't open either. And if its not the power supply, then it would have to be the hd drive. To me, the hd acts weird. I put wolfenstein on it, and it doesn't run. Halo acted weird on it too. Like sometimes it would load, and sometimes it wouldn't. I should start chargin my friend for diagnostics and shit. I told him i'd mod it for him, but he didn't tell me he had problems already with it.