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jerrinfox

PC troubles - New one on me!

Jan 10, 2008 13:13

I encountered a new and interesting problem with my home system, and before gettign too drastic, I thuoght to see what some others might think is the problem ( Read more... )

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goggremlin January 10 2008, 19:15:15 UTC

Burn a CD with memtest86 on it and see if it'll boot and run for a couple hours.

A friends PC was acting weird and we found at 551MB he has bad memory.

wyldside January 10 2008, 20:09:45 UTC

I've seen power supplies go bad and cause that type of weird behavior, everything is fine until you increase the system load to just the right point. It could also be a loose drive cable.

fiskblack January 11 2008, 03:14:37 UTC

Probably AIDS.

deadly4u January 15 2008, 03:21:54 UTC

I would check your HDD for errors. Boot using XP or Vista disk, and try to get into the recovery environment...

If you cannot get past those sections, and no hardware has changed in your system. Then you should suspect your memory. The XP and Vista boot disks do NOT touch the harddrives until the actual installation.

Do a memtest as described above, and you should find your culprit.