problem: computer is acting strangly

[WITWICS]

The computer I am having problems with is a AMD Athlon 2500+, with some soltek motherboard, 80g seagate HD etc.

I installed XP, all security updates, Anti virus, SP2. The computer was running flawlessly, no problems what so ever. I booted the computer up, then tried to assign XP a passport and MSN closed. I tried to open it, it would just close. Then I downloaded MIRC, and the computer just shut down. I tried to reboot it, and it will not make it into XP, it just keeps rebooting.

I tried safe mode, last known config. I ran memtest and there are no problems with the ram, I ran SEATOOLS and it found 1 bad sector on the hard drive.

This computer has had problems in the past, random rebooting. I just tried a new hard drive, and I got a blue screen while installing XP.

Any help?

 

[gigaxtreme1]

I'd try to format the drive and reinstall. You could have a virus. Also that bad sector may be where the executable may reside. Partition the drive around it if you can. then format the suspect partition if possible and run a DOD disk wipe of the partition. Some of those things need to be force overwritten.