Computer savvy people? update post 21

[DJFyrewolf36]

Hmm RAM usually doesn't spontainously fail like that, especially both sticks at the same time. Testing each stick individually is a good idea. Hopefully its just one stick acting up. Make sure you try both sticks individually on each RAM slot, just to eliminate the possibility of one of your slots being messed up.

What kind of RAM are you using? What brand of Motherboard? Hopefully I can help out some

[Sirrahsim]

Hmm RAM usually doesn't spontainously fail like that, especially both sticks at the same time. Testing each stick individually is a good idea. Hopefully its just one stick acting up. Make sure you try both sticks individually on each RAM slot, just to eliminate the possibility of one of your slots being messed up.

What kind of RAM are you using? What brand of Motherboard? Hopefully I can help out some

I didn't even think about trying the sticks in each slot. I will be sure to do that too. I'm not sure what brand my hardware is. I'll check as soon as my boys give me a moment to myself This is the second hardrive that I have had with this system so I know that it is not the harddrive. I use antivirus, ad-aware, and spybot regularly and they all come up clean. The registry keeps coming up with tons of errors so there is something that is causing corruption. I used system restore to several points before it started messing up and was greeted with the same problem so I know that it isn't a software problem.
I'll open up my tower when I get a chance and let you know the brands and specs of everything.

[Blue_Frog]

If you dont want to gut your computer, and just want to find out what hardware components you have --

1. Click on Start - 'Help and Support'
2. Click on the 'Computer Information' link on the left side
3. Click on 'Tools' on the left side bottom, under the 'See Also' category
4. Click on 'My computer information' on the left side
5. Click 'Find information about the hardware installed on this system' on the right side panel.

It will display all your system information. You can print or write down the info from here. Also includes the installed drivers.


Another diagostic tool --
1. click start - run
2. type in msinfo32 (hit enter)
3. a diagnostic window will appear
- Click on the + beside components on the left side panel
- Click on the 'Problem Devices' in the list.
-- See if anything appears on the right hand side, and what the error code is.


If you want to see if you have any hardware conflicts --
1. Click Start - Settings - Control Panel
2. Double click on the 'System' icon
3. Click on the Hardware tab on the new window
4. Click on the Device Manager button
-- See if anything displays with a red X through it.

[Hellow]

Adding to Blue Frogs post:
If you want a kind of medium level information on your computer go to:
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Information

[Blue_Frog]

Adding to Blue Frogs post:
If you want a kind of medium level information on your computer go to:
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Information

Same as running msinfo32 (part 2 of my post) -- i'm lazy and hate clicking through things I'm all about the direct running from the "Start-Run"

[Sirrahsim]

As much as I would love to do all of those things... the computer with the problem will not boot up! Even when I try to boot it into safe mode it crashes and gives me the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Right now I am on my husband's laptop because the only thing that I can do with MY doorstop of a computer is to run a bootable disc. I was able to run memtest because it was on a Linux CD. The Windows Repair Console was about as helpful as a bottle of water for a forest fire. It crashed as well

[Blue_Frog]

As much as I would love to do all of those things... the computer with the problem will not boot up! Even when I try to boot it into safe mode it crashes and gives me the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Right now I am on my husband's laptop because the only thing that I can do with MY doorstop of a computer is to run a bootable disc. I was able to run memtest because it was on a Linux CD. The Windows Repair Console was about as helpful as a bottle of water for a forest fire. It crashed as well

So, it sounds like your computer is posting, and trying to load into windars and failing? I see from your first post that it do this trying to go to safe mode -- are you able to get into 'Safe Mode Command Prompt Only' or 'Command Prompt Mode'?

Also, you could prolly pull your hardware information from your system BIOS on bootup.

I'm sorry to hear that your computer has turned into a big pile One other thing you might be able to do (if the RAM testing, swapping ports etc. isn't working at home), is take your RAM to a local computer shop, and see if they can test it for you.