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Old 05-24-2009, 04:21 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety View Post
Zeep,

I have been suffering with the same thing now for ages. Same blue screen of death (except that mine are in English). In my case, it is not the power supply, it is a problem with the motherboard.

Other frequent causes for that kind of constant crash and reboot can be a problem with the graphics card, RAM,and in some cases a virus. I had to rule out virus, graphics card and RAM. Once those were all shown not to be the problem, then it boiled down to the mobo which XFX is replacing.
i'm not getting and bsod, just random reboot. i don't know if it makes any difference.

i've now done a virus check (clean) chkdsk (clean) run memtest (4 iterations, each checking 625mo as it suggested) for about 1 hour, each of them said it had about 200% completion, normally it said in 1 hour it should be able to check everything. no errors found.

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Originally Posted by Idoine View Post
I understand from your posts it's not a manufactured PC, am I right ?
What's your OS, XP or Vista ?
I'm thinking of a bad driver too... You could try to use Everest, to check all...
yes, it's a custom built computer. i have a friend who knows everything about computers, when my last one broke i called her and she told me all the references for what to buy and i just took the list to the computer store and let them put it together. all the important components are new ; the only things i kept were my hard drives (used externally now ; i have a sata drive for my system and internal hd), my dvd burner, my disquette reader. i'm using windows xp pro, i think it's sp2...

i downloaded everest but it's just a trial version, is it worth buying it ? should i look for the last free version ? is the trial good enough for now ? i don't really know what to do with it but i'm taking a look through the manual now.

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared View Post
Do you have any pre-installed hardware diagnostic tools that came from the manufacturer, or did you build this system yourself.

My diagnostic tools came preloaded and run once a month and are found here:

Click Start , All Programs , PC Help & Tools , and Hardware Diagnostic Tools.

This checks all of my hardware and all of my memory.

Its a version of PC-Doctor 5 for windows that came pre-loaded.

WDE.
i've got no pre-installed diagnostic tools. i have ccleaner and a few other things like that. i hate doing this kind of stuff so i don't know very much about it. i just want to use my computer, not diagnose it to try to fix stupid mysterious problems ten time a day. for god's sake, i just bought it.

i do appreciate all the help though. (even if this drives me crazy)
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