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crash/restart randomly
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: July 26, 2007 at 20:36:19 Pacific OS: soon xp CPU/Ram: quadcore 2gig Product: me
Comment:
Before windiws loads, comp randomly restarts. Sometimes displays blue screen of death. I romoved all the hardware aside from cpu and fan and it worked fine. Put eveything back one by one, and it was fine, now still crashs ans gives the blue screen during xp setup. Brand new comp, no dropped screws shorting somthing. Coudl it be a bad ps, this comp ran vista for like 3 days no problem, only when i formated and tried to inatall xp am i running in to problems.
Thanks,Cody
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: July 26, 2007 at 20:41:01 Pacific
Reply:
might be helpful to list specs lol....
quad core 2 gig ddr2 duel chanel intell mobo (dp35DP) 500 gig serial ata HD seagate(set in bios to look like IDE so XP setup would see it[tryign to set up xp on this drive]) ide dvd-rw 200 gig ide maxor radion 1650 vid card (yea it sucks, but i ran out of money...will upgrade later)
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
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Response Number 2
Name: max00 Date: July 26, 2007 at 20:50:18 Pacific
Reply:
Did you have the XP install program repartition/format the drive? You need to do that if you are installing XP after Vista.
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Response Number 3
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: July 26, 2007 at 20:55:29 Pacific
Reply:
yea its all formated corectly, it crashs w/wo trying to install xp
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
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Name: Cody (by codyrichter)
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