eek something died

jaws104 · 30 Dec 2009 at 06:19

System hard locked last night after extended use over holidays. It will now only post and bsod crash on windows startup :eek:

Reverted back to stock clocks {from what i remember them being!} but still dying on me....... I have a suspicion it may be dead/dying memory but have no idea how to find out? it does read 2gb memory on start-up...

Edit --- won't load in safe mode either btw

Tomc@T · 30 Dec 2009 at 06:34

If you think it is memory, get a copy of memtest and burn it to disk, then run the test, it will soon tell you if you have faulty memory.

SkeeterUK · 30 Dec 2009 at 06:59

Maybe failing hdd?

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 07:38

could be harddrive

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 07:39

any beep codes ?

jaws104 · 30 Dec 2009 at 07:40

Tomc@T said:
If you think it is memory, get a copy of memtest and burn it to disk, then run the test, it will soon tell you if you have faulty memory.

Will try this

SkeeterPSA said:
Maybe failing hdd?

How can I tell - I can see both my HD in Bios at least

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 07:44

give the memory and cpu abit of voltage see what happens

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 07:45

still leave at stock speeds at the moment

SkeeterUK · 30 Dec 2009 at 08:21

The dos boot disc and scan might reveal bad sectors at the least.

jaws104 · 30 Dec 2009 at 10:12

Tomc@T said:
If you think it is memory, get a copy of memtest and burn it to disk, then run the test, it will soon tell you if you have faulty memory.

memory tested ok

antipacker said:
give the memory and cpu abit of voltage see what happens

i dropped the clocks and kept voltages the same but no joy

SkeeterPSA said:
The dos boot disc and scan might reveal bad sectors at the least.

well i tried this - created cd dos boot disk but scandisk would not work - my o/s {XP}is on a partitioned hdd.
I could navigate to the other half {e:}, but not the o/s partition {c:}

I am a bit skeptical i'm even doing it right though as when i went to my f: drive {my second hdd} it could not read that either, surely they both couldn't have popped

Hopefully that makes sense

EDIT :: Ran XP Recovery console and it crashes at 'examining startup enviroment' - **** it maybe it's time for an upgrade