therascalking
Devious Techie
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- Fullerton, CA, USA
hey guys...
i need some help figuring out what to do with my computer... it suddenly stopped working one day, without me having done anything or changed anything on it... the power went out, and when i turned it back on, it would run BIOS, go to the black XP loading screen with the blue status bar, stay there (with the bar moving) for about 5 minutes... then flash the Blue Screen of Death and run BIOS again, starting the whole process over...
in frustration, i took my HD out and using an external enclosure, plugged it into another computer and just formatted it (i have everything on it pretty much backed up)... id put it back in, put my XP Pro install cd in my cd drive, boot from disk, reinstall windows, and log in fine... but after about an hour, after i install all the drivers for my mobo, graphics card, and chipset and windows updates itself, ill be browsing the net or doing something else random... and it will just freeze... no way to do anything to it, ctrl alt del does nothing... just freezes every time... so ill manually restart it... but when i do this... it goes back to the logon loop and bsod every time...
ive done this (reformat, reinstall, then having it break) 3 or 4 times now...
ive been trying to narrow it down to what it could be... its not a virus because, i mean, the HD is formatted, theres NOTHING on it... it shouldnt be the HD itself... again, its blank, and its pretty nice and pretty new... its not my RAM i dont think (i ran memtest86 on it with zero errors...)... and its not my video card, as i have the same problem running off onboard video... i dont know how it could be my CPU, or anything else hardware, so that leave it to be software...
i have a legal, legitimate copy of windows from microsoft and the disk it came with... and ive downloaded the drivers ive been using directly from the companies websites for all parts, the latest drivers every time...
if not my XP cd, not my drivers, and not hardware... what else could i be doing wrong or what could be broken here???
id appreciate any help on this, thoughts, ideas, or suggestions... and thanks in advance...
thanks for reading this, and i hope you can help! - RK
i need some help figuring out what to do with my computer... it suddenly stopped working one day, without me having done anything or changed anything on it... the power went out, and when i turned it back on, it would run BIOS, go to the black XP loading screen with the blue status bar, stay there (with the bar moving) for about 5 minutes... then flash the Blue Screen of Death and run BIOS again, starting the whole process over...
in frustration, i took my HD out and using an external enclosure, plugged it into another computer and just formatted it (i have everything on it pretty much backed up)... id put it back in, put my XP Pro install cd in my cd drive, boot from disk, reinstall windows, and log in fine... but after about an hour, after i install all the drivers for my mobo, graphics card, and chipset and windows updates itself, ill be browsing the net or doing something else random... and it will just freeze... no way to do anything to it, ctrl alt del does nothing... just freezes every time... so ill manually restart it... but when i do this... it goes back to the logon loop and bsod every time...
ive done this (reformat, reinstall, then having it break) 3 or 4 times now...
ive been trying to narrow it down to what it could be... its not a virus because, i mean, the HD is formatted, theres NOTHING on it... it shouldnt be the HD itself... again, its blank, and its pretty nice and pretty new... its not my RAM i dont think (i ran memtest86 on it with zero errors...)... and its not my video card, as i have the same problem running off onboard video... i dont know how it could be my CPU, or anything else hardware, so that leave it to be software...
i have a legal, legitimate copy of windows from microsoft and the disk it came with... and ive downloaded the drivers ive been using directly from the companies websites for all parts, the latest drivers every time...
if not my XP cd, not my drivers, and not hardware... what else could i be doing wrong or what could be broken here???
id appreciate any help on this, thoughts, ideas, or suggestions... and thanks in advance...
thanks for reading this, and i hope you can help! - RK