Andrew
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My computer kept crashing and switching itself off. Anyway, gave up messing with it etc so i'm formating it. Now it keeps bringing up a blue screen when formating or if i try to create partitions seperate.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Sam
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Give up?
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Andrew
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If you knew me you would know i'm not someone who will give up. I like a challenge
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Jake
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evident with the whole charlene palarva
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Sam
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Could be to do with BIOS settings - have you fucked around with them; ie. changing mode from auto to LBA or something like that?
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Andrew
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She's as bad as me Proper wind up
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Jake
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get her online
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Andrew
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quote: Originally posted by Sam
Could be to do with BIOS settings - have you fucked around with them; ie. changing mode from auto to LBA or something like that?
No. Thinking the motherboard or CPU is going a little fucked Changed the mem about 4 months ago so prob not that.
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Andrew
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quote: Originally posted by jake
get her online
She's gone out for the night
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Sam
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Try stripping the PC down to a bare system - just leave VGA card, HDD, and CD-ROM drive, then see if you get the same problems.
Check the jumper settings on both drives too!
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Andrew
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It's got as far as the 78% on the format so far. If it crashes again i'll take out the wireless card, DVD Writer and one of the mem chips. Most the stuff on this system is onboard. I've got exactly the same system back at my parents house, just with a slightly slower CPU so i could just swop them. Hardly stay there anymore.
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Andrew
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crashed at 90% Took out a 512 chip
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Sam
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Andrew
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200GB Hard Drive too. Takes about 40 mins to format
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Andrew
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7% so far
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CoastalCorsa
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will it not be trying to detect everything so that it can remove it and because you have disconnected most things it will crash because it thinks they are there but cant detect them to delete/remove them
if ya get wat i mean jus a thought
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Andrew
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For some reason it's the memory. Windows will not go on with two 512 chips. It's got past the format stage now but i'm gonna leave it until this evening when i get home.
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Sam
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Maybe they are different types of RAM but identical in physical appearance?
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Andrew
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Could well be that Sam. Got them at the same time though.
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