Ok, prob with daughters rig....

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Boots fine. Windows splash shows up...then when it gets ready to go into actual Win I get a bsod, I have done nothing to it. I swapped out mem and vid card...still the same thing. Think I just need a new install?
 
Before you format I'd recomend switching out the PSU. It doesn't seem likely, but if that's it you'll be glad you tried first.
 
Can you boot into safe mode? If you can then there's something wrong with Windows.
 
Hit F8 before windows splash screen and select "dont reboot on system failure" or something like that so you can see whats the error.

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I can not get into safe mod...just reboots. Will try PSU and the F8 deal this evening.

Thanks for the help guys =)
 
PSU did nothing, and i could not figure out the F8 deal.

Has to be the disk, though. Put in a another hdd and it booted fine. Guess something got corrupt on her hdd.
 
Have you tried to repair windows? I had this problem before and it was my boot files. When I rebuilt them it worked fine and saved me a reinstall
 
If swapping HDDs seems to have fixed the problem, and you wish to use the old one anyway by reformatting and reinstalling... before going through all that trouble, I would run the HDD manufacturer utilities on the drive first to make sure that drive isn't toast.

Just my $0.02
 
Dude. Power the computer up and get into safe mode w/ the f8 key. If you can get into windows in safe mode then you have a bad driver.. I suggest removing video, sound, lan, drivers etc.. After removing the device drivers try to reboot and see if it doesn't boot back up just fine.. if it doesn't, it sounds like you'll need to reformat. If it does then just install your lan drivers from the disk and download the latest drivers for all your hardware..

The only time I've seen a computer boot w/ bsod are when something is OVERHEATING, power supply is fubr or if the user has swapped motherboards around. The new chipset will freak windows the f' out. That would require a reformat as well.
 
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