I have a year old custom build computer with a 500gb and 1tb hard drives. 4gigs of ram and a gtx 460 graphic card. The devise had trouble yesterday when it started up and froze with a blue screen to follow. This happened every time I started the damn thing. I fiddled with the wires to make sure that everything was connected, ran a virus scanner and erased the second hard drive only to find that it now refuses to start and stops with a black screen and a single bar blinking constantly.
What is wrong with the stupid thing and is there anything to do other than scrap it?
How’d you manage that via BSoD?
Formated? Deleted the partition?
Does the PC post normally, can you access the BIOS? Reset the settings, try booting from CD (Ubuntu, Windows setup or w/e)
Also, try booting with one RAM stick only (try either ones).
I managed to check when the computer seemed to be working before I got another blue screen.
Did you note the BSOD code down when it happened? This gives a clue to the issue.
I would recommend downloading and running memtest86+ to check your RAM is okay. It needs to run at least 10 full tests with no errors to be sure it’s okay.
As johnyo said above try a ubuntu live cd or the windows install disk to see if it will run.
Check for any motherboard BIOS updates, anything that might indicate an update in system stability (if none then don’t bother flashing as it can be risky).
I set the computer to set up with factory settings and it now loads the os… but the blue screens still plauge me.
The blue screen says that it could be related to a program not working properly or not being installed properly.
I have a 1Gb DDR2 RAM stick that started BSODing and I ended up replacing it.
Google the code. Chances are, other people have had it and solved it.
Should I get rid of all unecesary programs during safe mode. Which is the only one that works.
You could try doing what has been suggested two times already and CHECK YOUR GOD DAMNED RAM!!!
- Download Ubuntu image and burn it to cd.
- insert Ubuntu CD into your cd-drive and after booting choose “Try out”
2b. If it dont want to boot from cd you’ll have to change your bios-settings
If Ubuntu dont boot properly, there’s something wrong with your hardware. You can check your RAM with Memtest integrated on the Ubuntu CD. You just have to press F1 while booting and then choose memtest of couse.
Rukia has a point; Linux (Ubuntu) live CDs normally come with a memcheck program in their boot-up menu.
I checked the ram… it is fine. In the system settings I restored it to factory settings then booted from linux and it seems to be working fine for the time being. Thank you for your assistance but it is no longer needed.
go into the bios and play with the sata bus settings
there should be options like standard or enhanced, etc