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I think I killed my computer...
xxhennersxx
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About two weeks ago, my computer started randomly resetting. I figured it was my power supply right? So last weekend I buy a new power supply and it's still resetting randomly. And it seemed it only did it when I did certain things (watched youtube videos being one of them) so I thought "Hey, maybe it's a virus?" but virus scan didn't find anything. So I thought...perhaps it is registry? Well the easiest thing to do is to simply reformat my hard drive.
so I pop in my windows XP disc and i begin formatting my hard drive. partways through it...
the computer reset.
o_o
i tried letting it boot all the way, see what happens...says it's missing a file that windows can't find and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
so I decide to give it another reformat...
windows won't let me format my hard drive now.
I figured...it's a hard ware problem. and I can't exactally figure out whats wrong with the hard ware, I'm assuming motherboard is fucked.
so I'm in the market for a new motherboard, but i can't find any new socket A motherboards...so I need a new CPU also. And my video card is AGP, so I need a new video card too because it's been replaced with PCI-E....
-_-
anyway, is there anything I can do to fix my hdd?
And am I on the right track with replaceing the motherboard? would that be what caused the problem?
so I pop in my windows XP disc and i begin formatting my hard drive. partways through it...
the computer reset.
o_o
i tried letting it boot all the way, see what happens...says it's missing a file that windows can't find and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
so I decide to give it another reformat...
windows won't let me format my hard drive now.
I figured...it's a hard ware problem. and I can't exactally figure out whats wrong with the hard ware, I'm assuming motherboard is fucked.
so I'm in the market for a new motherboard, but i can't find any new socket A motherboards...so I need a new CPU also. And my video card is AGP, so I need a new video card too because it's been replaced with PCI-E....
-_-
anyway, is there anything I can do to fix my hdd?
And am I on the right track with replaceing the motherboard? would that be what caused the problem?
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A nice solution would be if your install disc is just dirty/scratched. Check the back of it to see if it's messed up. I've actually had that happen before; it couldn't find some file but was ok once I cleaned the disc.
If you can, I'd also try running memtest (http://www.memtest.org/). They have a bootable iso image available that you can download and burn onto a cd. I think you just let it run for a couple of hours and see if any errors occur.
But yea, heat could be an issue. I don't know about where you live, but it's been getting noticably hotter in the Bay Area in the past couple of weeks. You can dl some software to monitor cpu and vid card temp. I think nvidia drivers allow you to look at the temperature if you go into the advance settings.
GFWL: studaud (for SF4)
set the primary boot device as CD drive
Reinstall from there.
While installing, take the side off your case and blow a big(desktop) fan at it or something. If that stops the resets then it would be pretty safe to say that something is overheating.