Computer savvy people? update post 21

[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.

[Sirrahsim]

My computer will get all of the way to the full screen windows logo and then go black for a moment before coming up with the BSOD. When I try to load into safemode it runs through all of the files until it gets stuck at the file past drivers/mup.sys and then goes to the BSOD. My boys are both napping *gasp!!* so I'm going to go test the RAM now

[Sirrahsim]

It looked like a dust bunny family reunion inside my tower I cleaned out the case and gave the fans a good scrubbing with a Q-tip. Throughout the time that my comp was working but messing up from time to time I was keeping an eye on the cpu temp and it never went higher than it is supposed to. It turns out that I only have one stick of RAM but it was filthy so I cleaned it off a bit. The wrench in the works is that now that I have plugged the essential things back in to test if it works my monitor won't work! As soon as I turn the computer on it says that it is entering power saving mode.... SO it might have fixed the problem but if it did I don't know it I'm off to fiddle with the connections and make sure that I didn't knock anything lose.

[Sirrahsim]

Monitor works but nothing else does
It's a much cleaner doorstop now though!

[Blue_Frog]

If its not booting now, the only thing i can think of is to take out the cards one by one, and reseat them and hope it loads.

Sounds like a trip to a local computer shop might be in order though, if you suspect its a hardware failure