Gobstoppable
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- Oct 12, 2004
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- 17
Ok, so 3 or 4 week's ageo i started having computer problem's for the first time since i built my pc ( a year and a half ageo). The problem didnt bother me at first but now i cant fix it. It started randomly poping up a blue screen with an error message maybe once a day, to quickly for me to see what it said, but it was once a day so i figured big deal. After that it started getting more frequant, happening a few times in a row, i would get a blue screen, it would restart, as soon as i logged into window's boom, it would go down again. I also started having random problem's with program's. At times firefox would get an error, and i wouldnt be able to open it back up, when ever i tried, it would just give me another error and crash, it would happen with bother IE and Firefox, and the only way to get them to work again was to restart. Finally i got fed up with it, after many many virus and spyware scan's i desided to do a fresh reinstall, deleted the old partition and installed windows fresh. I started getting the same problem's right off the bat, right after i installed my ethernet and video card drivers, i would attempt to restart, and in the process of restarting i would get a blue screen. Program's would crash at odd times and nothing would work right.
At this i did some test, i had memtest86+ run for 13 hour's passing every time with 0 error's, and the computer never crashed once in the entire 13 hour's of memtest, i also ran western digita lifegaurd and did a scan on my HD, i ran it several times, found no error, i did a full 0 write to the disk, did a fresh install of window's and the problem presist.
I tried other hard drives, all my other drives are IDE, and the same thing happen with all 3 of them, i would put them in with the windows cd, it would show the drives with much less space then they actually had, and when it tried to reformat/install on them i would get a blue screen and it would crash, now this is the only time i have gotten a blue screen when not running windows, and it also did it with 2 different copies of windows xp pro.
So the only drive i have that i can install windows on is my SATA drive, and when i do install windows it doesnt work worth shit, i constantly get error's from program's and i get blue screen's frequently.
Im thinking it has to be my motherboard, nothing else makes sence in my mind. But i come to the intelegent people of hardforums for some suggestions of what i might do befor i go spend more money, that i cant really afford, to fix my computer.
At this i did some test, i had memtest86+ run for 13 hour's passing every time with 0 error's, and the computer never crashed once in the entire 13 hour's of memtest, i also ran western digita lifegaurd and did a scan on my HD, i ran it several times, found no error, i did a full 0 write to the disk, did a fresh install of window's and the problem presist.
I tried other hard drives, all my other drives are IDE, and the same thing happen with all 3 of them, i would put them in with the windows cd, it would show the drives with much less space then they actually had, and when it tried to reformat/install on them i would get a blue screen and it would crash, now this is the only time i have gotten a blue screen when not running windows, and it also did it with 2 different copies of windows xp pro.
So the only drive i have that i can install windows on is my SATA drive, and when i do install windows it doesnt work worth shit, i constantly get error's from program's and i get blue screen's frequently.
Im thinking it has to be my motherboard, nothing else makes sence in my mind. But i come to the intelegent people of hardforums for some suggestions of what i might do befor i go spend more money, that i cant really afford, to fix my computer.