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16-February-08, 03:18 PM
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| PCApex's Mac Man  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN
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    |  Please HELP I've been troubleshooting my girlfriends desk top for a few weeks now in my spare time as she has a laptop so time isn't of the essence but its getting annoying. Symptoms: Windows either loads full up for a good 20 or 30min then hard reboots, and each successive Windows load gets shorter and shorter use time out of it. Also misc applications will crash during this 20-30min of use Or and sometimes a "then" because it will sometimes do this after it keeps rebooting will just stop with a black screen after the Windows load screen. I don't mean the monitor turns off, I mean a black screen and then it sticks there. Sometimes... I've only seen this once or twice, the damn thing won't even start, no BIOS, no POST. Things I've know: This computer was working fine before like a month or so ago. No Viruses/Spyware No Hardware changes No Overheating... this thing has big frikkin Zalmans on it and I've looked at the PC Health under BIOS, it seems fine even when it is rebooting. The error message that has come up before said something about a driver, but it was working fine for months before. (Video Driver crashed a couple times) Things I've Done: Scanned for viruses/spyware Reinstalled Windows Checked Temps before and after crashes Looked under Device Manager for conflicts - nothing Voltages seemed normal before and after crashes Swapped mobo - no effect, hung after POST Tried just running it with HDD, CPU, GFX card and RAM... still crashes Reseated everything, mobo, drives, etc... What it has in it: PCCHIPS mobo 3200+ AMD 64 socket: 754 2GB of Corsair DDR400 120GB Seagate IDE 160GB Seagate IDE NEC DVD+/- Burner 500w X-connect PSU 6800GT AGP 128Mb videocard Plenty of cooling... HELP!!!
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16-February-08, 04:35 PM
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| Sempr0n?  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leeds/Ipswich, UK
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|  Re: Please HELP
It's a desktop, lol.
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16-February-08, 06:57 PM
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| Master VB Pr'hoe'grammer  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Tucker, Ga
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|  Re: Please HELP I'll guess hard drive. Turn off virtual memory and see if you get more stable. chkdsk may reveal bad things .... -MF
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16-February-08, 06:59 PM
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| PCApex Reviewer From Hell  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sunnydale
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| Re: Please HELP Alright. I misread the opening statement. I would agree with HoJo, run memtest 1st. But it could still be a power issue though. When it cuts off how hot is your power supply? Touch it and give us a guess.
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16-February-08, 07:05 PM
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| Sophist'Hoe"cated ReDNecK Reviewer  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: HALF A BUBBLE OFF PLUMB
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 | Re: Please HELP QUIT LOOKIN' AT PORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Try running Everest Ultimate (free trial) stress tests , it will let you run seperate tests on memory, cpu, cash , hard disk ................if its one of those everest should let you know 
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16-February-08, 07:42 PM
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| PCApex's Mac Man Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Re: Please HELP I'd love to run tests on it but I'm doubting the fact that it would even stay up long enough for them to work... On a side note, it may well be a windows thing cause while installing XP, for 45min no crash...
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