Heliocentrical
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Hello [H] friends. Im troubleshooting an old pc for a friend. Its an AMD Athlon 6400+ with 1gig ddr, a 160gig hard drive and windows Vista Basic. Basically the story is this: She says its super slow and it bsod's anytime she shuts down or reboots. I checked it out and naturally her AV software has been expired for who knows how long and she's downloaded a ton of "anti-malware" and "speed up my pc" apps. Sigh...molasses is faster than this thing. I back up her photos and music and nuke the drive with a fresh install of Vista Basic. I install avast (my av of choice) and ccleaner...that's it. Then all the windows updates and service packs. The system screams "Im alive!" and starts chugging right along. Its surprisingly quick actually. Problem is that its still bsod'ing anytime I reboot/or shut down and it only does it exactly then.
What Ive tried:
Reinstalled OS and all updates
Ran several memtest programs and tried different ram as well as different ram slots - No errors.
Ran Chkdsk, checked for errors and scanned for bad sectors - No issues
Checked all cables, connectors, etc.
Checked cpu/case temps..all normal
Dusted inside case (compressed air)
Im stumped. Computer runs great otherwise. Any ideas?
What Ive tried:
Reinstalled OS and all updates
Ran several memtest programs and tried different ram as well as different ram slots - No errors.
Ran Chkdsk, checked for errors and scanned for bad sectors - No issues
Checked all cables, connectors, etc.
Checked cpu/case temps..all normal
Dusted inside case (compressed air)
Im stumped. Computer runs great otherwise. Any ideas?