Hieronymous
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Just moved half way across the world, and before I left, I re-installed windows for my girlfriend. Now that I'm 3000 miles away, she tells me it keeps crashing, and she doesn't know what to do. She says it will randomly shut down, then when she turns it back on, it will shut down again almost right away. On the other hand, she says that when she lets it sit for a while, she can get it to stay on for longer.
I told her to try it in Safe Mode, that made no difference.
I told her to do a system restore, that didn't help.
It's starting to sound like a temp problem, but I never had one before, and I haven't changed any of the hardware in the recent past (except a web-cam).
Admittedly, I did the re-install in a bit of a hurry, but it is far from the first re-install I've ever done.
The only posts I have found that are similar talk about power source shortage, but I've already got 400 watts on that comp.
Can somebody help me help my girlfriend figure this problem out from a distance? I need to redeem myself in her eyes as the geek pants-wearer in the relationship, and I can't do it alone!
Asus A8N-SLI SE
AMD Athalon 64 4000+
ATI Radeon X1300
2x512 Corsair DDR-400
nVidia nForce 4
Maxtor 164gb HD
Windows XP Home SP2
I told her to try it in Safe Mode, that made no difference.
I told her to do a system restore, that didn't help.
It's starting to sound like a temp problem, but I never had one before, and I haven't changed any of the hardware in the recent past (except a web-cam).
Admittedly, I did the re-install in a bit of a hurry, but it is far from the first re-install I've ever done.
The only posts I have found that are similar talk about power source shortage, but I've already got 400 watts on that comp.
Can somebody help me help my girlfriend figure this problem out from a distance? I need to redeem myself in her eyes as the geek pants-wearer in the relationship, and I can't do it alone!
Asus A8N-SLI SE
AMD Athalon 64 4000+
ATI Radeon X1300
2x512 Corsair DDR-400
nVidia nForce 4
Maxtor 164gb HD
Windows XP Home SP2