Calling all Experts!PC has betrayed me

darkcatchaos

My first meaningful post and im already asking for help...what a shame

This Pc has before died on me because of a Mup.sys problem locking me out, but a format and reinstall of windows has fix it twice, last time that happened was 2 months ago.
Well my computer has died again this time for some Unknown reason,
Yesterday my Pc was working fine,i went out for a couple of minutes when i came back i turned back on the screen just to be greeted by the horrors of a BSOD,"memory_allocation" it said.
I restarted as usual and CHKDSK started doing its thing, 1%,2%,3%,and then it started saying :Deleting temp file,allocating ,failed.for several minutes was saying that.Then when it was passed to the second test it was saying deleting, allocating, failed due not sufficient space on HD,not enough space?? i have 380g free on it...so after 5 min of triying to do i dunno what screen went blue and just 2 lines appear:

Error allocating:00000000000x000000001d
FatalError Computer will shutdown

So i went and before my usual format and install procedure,ill try to acces my HD trough Knoppix Cd ,nothing it stays at :Allocating...............
So i tried a rescue disk,ya it loads the disc but when it reaches 20% of restoring windows and the pc it goes black and restarts.....so i tried windows disk ,went to recovery console, did a chkdsk /f,no errors...
Went back to restart the computer(no cds this time) windows loading bar appears and restarts, then againg Pc reaches the windows loading bar and resets.......
Last thing i did was a memtest trough a linux live cd and it seemed that my mem was messed up but then i did another one and the mem was fine...
SO i pledge to you gods of IT what do you think about my dilema
Here is my specifications:
Asus board
4x1g mem modules
2 250hd HD
AMD 64 x2 2.6
Audigy ZX Platinum Pro with front mounted panel
Ati Radeon x600 256 m
NO viruses, no spyware,no overclocking,running sygate firewall and symantec corporate trough 2 routers and their firewalls.
Sorry about the text, BBcode dont wanna behave in this computer for some reason

stigweard

The first thing that comes to mind is bad ram. Try running memtest86+ from a cd overnight. If you get any output lines in red, you have a bad or incompatible stick of ram. The secons thing that comes to mind is the hdd failed, but it is better to test the ram first. If it is ram, it could be messing up all your other tests.

Lucky Cynic

I'd just google stuff around, It's probably a ram issue, but if not, probably a harddrive or motherboard issue. It jsut goes to show that it is worth backing up your files every month. I just keep rewriting over the same fucking dvd and have all my files safely tucked away.

TheBurritoMan

It really sounds like a failing hard drive. It is possible that it's ram, so you should try just booting with one stick. If that fails, I'd try to pull my data off the drive, and then make a boot partition on the drive that doesn't have it, basically just switch the roles of the two drives.

darkcatchaos

Well im back after cheking everystick of ram and i nailed to be one of the corsair 1gb,
after that i tried memtest again and no errors anymore.Bad news is everything got erased,
not that i really cared tought i only wanted my bookmarks tough lol.All important stu,f
i have it backup on dvdvs and also scattered on 3 -300 gb HD just in case.Couldn believe that such a thing could mess up so many things

stigweard

If the cpu or ram ever get out of whack, they will mess up everything. Ram goes far more often than the cpu does though so it is usually good to start with a ram test. I've seen some really weird glitches with ram including a bad ram slot that caused severe coil noise if you plugged a stick of ram in it.