Crash & boot issues-Please read.

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As of late i have been having some frustrating issues with my PC. It will
freeze, bring up a blue screen of death, and when i attempt to restart the
system it will not go past the Bios screen.
In an attempt to repair this issue, i have formatted and reinstalled windows
several times but it seems it is a short term solution as after a couple of
days the same problem occurs.
Now my question is-any idea what could be causing this? I have run some
tests on my Ram and it appears to be clean, and various friends suggest it
could be either a bad hard drive or even the motherboard causing the
corruption. Any input is appreciated thank you for your time.
 
If you reinstalled xp by booting to xp cd,reformating the hd,etc..Then it
sounds like ram issue,thats fairly easy to test + test the controller which
is what the memory tester does.Download and install to a MS-DOS formatted
floppy,boot to floppy.The utility is
at:http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
It runs from a cd also i believe...
 
Hello Andrew and thanks for your response,
I run the diagnostic you posted and unfortunatelly it came out clean-no
errors detected what so ever. Also, yes, all the times i had to do a clean
install of windows i did follow the winxp boot cd, format partitions etc
process. My pc runs fine for a couple of days and then corruption in either
user profiles or windows files it self begins to occur.
Once again thanks for the response and if theres any other ideas that you
would like to suggest, i'd really appreciate it.
 
Greeko said:
As of late i have been having some frustrating issues with my PC. It will
freeze, bring up a blue screen of death, and when i attempt to restart the
system it will not go past the Bios screen.
In an attempt to repair this issue, i have formatted and reinstalled
windows
several times but it seems it is a short term solution as after a couple
of
days the same problem occurs.
Now my question is-any idea what could be causing this? I have run some
tests on my Ram and it appears to be clean, and various friends suggest it
could be either a bad hard drive or even the motherboard causing the
corruption. Any input is appreciated thank you for your time.
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Run the following diagnostics

memtest86 http://www.memtest86.org run it overnight if possible
HDD utility from the manufacture's web site

rgds
Roberto
 
Greeko said:
Hello Andrew and thanks for your response,
I run the diagnostic you posted and unfortunatelly it came out
clean-no errors detected what so ever. Also, yes, all the times i had
to do a clean install of windows i did follow the winxp boot cd,
format partitions etc process. My pc runs fine for a couple of days
and then corruption in either user profiles or windows files it self
begins to occur. Once again thanks for the response and if theres any
other ideas that you would like to suggest, i'd really appreciate it.
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Andrew E. is a troll so you can ignore him. As Roberto says, Memtest86+
is a good RAM tester, but of course there are other hardware components
in your computer. You definitely are having hardware issues since at
times your system won't even go past the POST. Reinstalling Windows
(software) will not help with solving hardware problems.

Here are some general hardware troubleshooting steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts
with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Malke
 
Thanks for the responses everyone-Will try out whatw as suggested and
hopefully report with some results soon. =)
 
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