Crazy issue after an electrical storm

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jordan12

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Guys,

I have a client that has her machine hooked up to a surge protector. After the storm, she lost her built in network card.
Comcast came out and put in a PCI card. Worked ok. But she started having strange reboots and small software erros that made no sense.

I came out and replaced the MB and Power Supply. That seemed to make things better, but not completely ok.

Still kept getting little strange erros and rebooted once in awhile. The app log showed that various programs have stopped responding. Like IE, or Activesync, etc.

I am at a loss to know where to go from here. I tested her memory and it seemed fine. I am now ready to replace the Video card and HDD. The reasoning on the Video card is due to it gets so hot on the HSF I cant touch it. And the HDD is older and could have a problem as well.

Any suggestions?
 
jordan12 said:
Still kept getting little strange erros and rebooted once in awhile. The app log showed that various programs have stopped responding. Like IE, or Activesync, etc.

I am at a loss to know where to go from here. I tested her memory and it seemed fine. I am now ready to replace the Video card and HDD. The reasoning on the Video card is due to it gets so hot on the HSF I cant touch it. And the HDD is older and could have a problem as well.
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I don't think programs would be affected by the video card. I would say replace the HD 1st.
 
Doesn't sound like a video card problem. I'd test the RAM and hard drive.
 
It doesn't sound like a hardware problem at all actualy.

Have you tried reinstalling Windows yet?
 
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