Chris0288
05-25-2005, 12:45 AM
Not sure what this comes under as Im not sure what the problem is, basicly this all started a while ago when one of my Maxtor HD's died, the computer was working fine to a point then it started randomly restarting so I turned off the auto restart option so it would give me a blue screen instead to try to find out why it was doing it, the errors it gives are just STOP 0X000...etc things that i dont understand and it changes usually everytime.
So as it went on it got worse and worse, random crashes that I could never tell when they were going to happen, so I decided yesterday to repair XP, once I tried that it installed etc then went to start XP and said there was a problem with ntfs.sys and kept saying windows has detected a problem and shut down the computer, I couldnt get into windows atall, so I formatted...same problem.
I took a wild stab at it and took a stick of ram out and wobled the graphics card a bit, and it booted to windows.....weird, so I thought Id sorted it, just a fault stick of ram, but while av been trying to install stuff back on it its crashed twice blaming a device driver doing that blue screen thing again, not as frequent but it has done it so evidently the format hasnt worked, I think it might be my radeon but I dont know how to check as I dont have anyother cards about, any ideas?
Specs are:
A64 3200
Asus K8V Deluxe
1GB Mushkin level 2 PC3500 (only 1 512mb stick in just now)
Radeon 9700pro with newest cats (5.5 i think)
Audigy 1
Maxtor 80GB HD
WinXP Home
anyother info Ill be happy to provide if anyone can help, Im at my wits end here honestly about to throw it out the window.
So as it went on it got worse and worse, random crashes that I could never tell when they were going to happen, so I decided yesterday to repair XP, once I tried that it installed etc then went to start XP and said there was a problem with ntfs.sys and kept saying windows has detected a problem and shut down the computer, I couldnt get into windows atall, so I formatted...same problem.
I took a wild stab at it and took a stick of ram out and wobled the graphics card a bit, and it booted to windows.....weird, so I thought Id sorted it, just a fault stick of ram, but while av been trying to install stuff back on it its crashed twice blaming a device driver doing that blue screen thing again, not as frequent but it has done it so evidently the format hasnt worked, I think it might be my radeon but I dont know how to check as I dont have anyother cards about, any ideas?
Specs are:
A64 3200
Asus K8V Deluxe
1GB Mushkin level 2 PC3500 (only 1 512mb stick in just now)
Radeon 9700pro with newest cats (5.5 i think)
Audigy 1
Maxtor 80GB HD
WinXP Home
anyother info Ill be happy to provide if anyone can help, Im at my wits end here honestly about to throw it out the window.