Unhappy Computer Mark II
On Saturday I eventually managed to fix my computer by vacuuming it out and reinstalling Windows (now that it no longer crashed in the Windows installer). Or so I thought.
Yesterday at the LAN party in the graphics lab, the sucker went down hard, again. I was copying *ahem* a folder from a network share when the screen went blank on me and the computer rebooted. Subsequently, it would get partway through booting into Windows before erring with a bluescreen and rebooting before I could see what the problem was. It's still doing that now. I've run a couple of chkdsk /R scans on either partition, and for each partition, the first run reported fixing errors and the second gave it an all clean. Still crashes on boot, though. Guess it's time for the second Windows reinstall in three days to see if it stays up any longer.
If this fails, I'm not sure what to do. I don't know if the problem is the hard drive, the memory, or what. I'm probably buying something new at a computer store tomorrow, but I'm not sure if it should be a new HDD or a whole new box.
Yesterday at the LAN party in the graphics lab, the sucker went down hard, again. I was copying *ahem* a folder from a network share when the screen went blank on me and the computer rebooted. Subsequently, it would get partway through booting into Windows before erring with a bluescreen and rebooting before I could see what the problem was. It's still doing that now. I've run a couple of chkdsk /R scans on either partition, and for each partition, the first run reported fixing errors and the second gave it an all clean. Still crashes on boot, though. Guess it's time for the second Windows reinstall in three days to see if it stays up any longer.
If this fails, I'm not sure what to do. I don't know if the problem is the hard drive, the memory, or what. I'm probably buying something new at a computer store tomorrow, but I'm not sure if it should be a new HDD or a whole new box.