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Bought a pc from a local shop a year and a bit ago and have had it back and forth to the shop for the same problems - the bloke installed xp twice and then i paid £30 for a windows 7 upgrade and also upgraded my graphics card and changed to a modular psu. Same problems have been happening over and over...

After a new install the computer seems to work okay for a few weeks but then it starts to crash. lock up and forces me to switch it off by the button. On trying to start the computer back up - a range of things generally happen,

either it will pass the first screen then lock up trying to load windows, it will return an error saying something like error reading boot device or incorrect boot device, the biggest problem is when trying to enter repair your computer 9 times out of 10 it will get to the loading bar then seem asif it has finished loading the screen goes black asif the computer has went on standby and then forces me to shut the pc down again by the switch, When attempting to load up safemode it just crashes at classpnp.sys...I have literally just reinstalled windows a week ago and now the same problem has started up again.

I was under the impression that it may of been a problem with the hard drive but apprentley that is fine after running scans on it, I have tried unplugging hardware to see if that is the problem but still no further forward.

I have a 3000+ dual core amd, asrock motherboard and 320gb hard drive with a gtx 275 and 800w ocz modextreme psu

Any help appreciated.
 
Have the problems only existed since your Windows 7 upgrade? Maybe it installed incorrectly.

Try it with the old graphics card and PSU. A dodgy PSU might be causing this.
 
Yesterday the hard drive seemed to be making clicking like sounds. After turning the pc on and off to attempt to get back into windows - It eventually starts chkdisk etc recovers orphaned files and bad sectors - I will maybe get a brief 10 minutes inside until it starts playing up and crashing - Particular apparent when trying to run a scan of any sort, spyware,virus,etc...
 
If it's sometimes failing to get past the bios boot stage it suggests a hardware problem of some sort.
Suggest downloading memtest86 and the manufacturer's diagnostics tools for your hard drive and trying those initially. If there's a util for your mobo to check cpu temp, voltages and fan speeds it might be worth a go.
If you're familiar enough with the bios setup it would be worth a look to check settings.

Edit: just saw your HDD clicking post. I would backup all important data asap!
 
Go into event log does any errors / warning point to disk ?

If its crashing like that im pretty sure your HDD's about to die.
 
Managed to get into safemode

Admin logs and admin logs mainly have error source to disk event id 11.

Level Date and Time Source Event ID Task Category
Error 03/01/2011 14:39:30 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
...another 100 or so same
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:29 Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing 3 Session "Session ""ReadyBoot"" stopped due to the following error: 0xC0000185"
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:29 Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing 0 Logging "Session ""ReadyBoot"" failed to write to log file ""C:\Windows\Prefetch\ReadyBoot\ReadyBoot.etl"" with the following error: 0xC0000185"
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:29 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:28 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
....
....
....
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:27 Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing 3 Session "Session ""Circular Kernel Context Logger"" stopped due to the following error: 0xC0000185"
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:27 Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing 0 Logging "Session ""Circular Kernel Context Logger"" failed to write to log file ""C:\Windows\system32\WDI\LogFiles\BootCKCL.etl"" with the following error: 0xC0000185"
Error 03/01/2011 14:35:25 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.

Error 03/01/2011 14:35:16 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Warning 03/01/2011 14:33:42 Ntfs 130 None The file system structure on volume C: has now been repaired.
Error 03/01/2011 14:32:34 Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf 3011 None Unloading the performance counter strings for service WmiApRpl (WmiApRpl) failed. The first DWORD in the Data section contains the error code.
Error 03/01/2011 14:32:34 Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf 3012 None The performance strings in the Performance registry value is corrupted when process Performance extension counter provider. The BaseIndex value from the Performance registry is the first DWORD in the Data section, LastCounter value is the second DWORD in the Data section, and LastHelp value is the third DWORD in the Data section.
Error 03/01/2011 14:31:56 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:30:35 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:33 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network List Service service depends on the Network Location Awareness service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{7D096C5F-AC08-4F1F-BEB7-5C22C517CE39}"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1068"" attempting to start the service netprofm with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{A47979D2-C419-11D9-A5B4-001185AD2B89}"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1068"" attempting to start the service netman with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:31 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{9E175B6D-F52A-11D8-B9A5-505054503030}"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:30 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:25 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{DD522ACC-F821-461A-A407-50B198B896DC}"
Warning 03/01/2011 14:28:24 Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon 6000 None The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7026 None "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
AFD
CSC
DfsC
discache
MpFilter
NetBIOS
NetBT
nsiproxy
Psched
rdbss
spldr
tdx
Wanarpv6
WfpLwf"
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network Location Awareness service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The SMB 2.0 MiniRedirector service depends on the SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The SMB 1.x MiniRedirector service depends on the SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service depends on the Redirected Buffering Sub Sysytem service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The IP Helper service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Workstation service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The Network Store Interface Service service depends on the NSI proxy service driver. service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service depends on the Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The DNS Client service depends on the NetIO Legacy TDI Support Driver service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Service Control Manager 7001 None "The DHCP Client service depends on the Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Ntfs 55 (2) The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2.
Warning 03/01/2011 14:28:12 Ntfs 130 None The file system structure on volume C: has now been repaired.
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:13 Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog 1101 Event processing Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0
Critical 03/01/2011 14:28:00 Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power 41 (63) The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Error 03/01/2011 14:28:11 EventLog 6008 None The previous system shutdown at 13:35:32 on ‎03/‎01/‎2011 was unexpected.
Error 03/01/2011 13:16:18 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Error 03/01/2011 13:16:17 Disk 11 None The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.

Error etc etc
 
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