Computer Crashing

saintssuperstar · 8 Sep 2006 at 09:51

Hey guys, i recently upgraded my pc and it has been working fine since all the new parts have been installed until 2-3 days ago it has been crashing a lot while playing wow. Today i couldnt even get passed the loggin screen without crashing. I finally got into the game and it crashed right away so i hit the reset button and got the windows did not start up properly message. No matter what option I take it will go to the windows xp loading screen then just restart itself. Could anyone help me here?? :confused:

Specs:
AMD Athalon 64 3200
9800 pro
1gb of mix and match ram (1x512 512 geil value and 1x512 no brand)
asrock mobo

Munromax · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:28

I take it you have been running some kind of AV.
Sounds like some kind of corruption.

deadeyedic30 · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:39

Why did you hit the reset button instead or rebooting ?
Did you run scandisk to check the state of the drive ?
Do you have the latest mobo drivers for it and had you recently flashed the bios ? If yes, did you read the readme file ?
What make of hard drive is it ?

saintssuperstar · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:46

Im a newbie to this computer stuff so bare with me guys, whats an AV? Its a Maxtor 160gb sataII hard drive. I hit the reset button because i could not reboot the computer, i tried ctrl alt and delete it didnt work, tried to tab out etc I dont know if they are the latest drivers, I used the CD which came with it so chances are they are not the latest drivers

edit: lol yes i ahve been running anti virus