Majorly screwed computer. Help?

[Chimerical]

Right. To begin with, a friend's computer was running all fine and good until a virus got downloaded onto the HDD. Basically it screwed the computer and he reformatted.

However, since then every time he tries to download a Windows Update or whatever, the computer will freeze. Sometimes it freezes immediately after booting into Windows. It only seems to do this after mobo/gpu drivers have been installed.

We can't work out what's wrong with it, as the computer as been formatted (again) since the faults started appearing. I could see how its a driver problem, but the computer never did this before and we haven't changed any of the hardware (since the first reformat).

Although recently he did install a brand new Samsung 500GB HDD which worked fine until the virus ruined his OS and needed re-formatting.

We've tried different combinations of driver install orders and there is nothing is on the PC. Help?

The system specs are:

Nvidia 7600GT XFX GPU (manufacturer pre-overclocked)
Asus M2N-E NForce 570 SLi Motherboard
AMD AM2 Dual Core CPU (not overclocked)
Samsung 500GB HDD
Antec 430W PSU
2GB Corsair RAM
XP Home Edition

 

[Chimerical]

Bump. Anyone?

 

[Sunbed]

Have you tried all the latest drivers?

Order install, I do: SP3 > chipset > windows updates > gfx and soundcard.

Done a disk check for bad sectors?

 

[Robbie_G]

I would recommend running HDTUNE on your hard drive to check for bad sectors.

 

[edscdk]

maybe run a util to test CPU temp windowsupdate will thrash the CPU to 100% for a while maybe its overheating..

Maybe he had his power profile set to laptop before the rebuild and now its not clocking down its jsut pushing it over *** edge?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Have you tried all the latest drivers?

Order install, I do: SP3 > chipset > windows updates > gfx and soundcard.

Done a disk check for bad sectors?

Just to follow on this point.. make sure you have the correct drivers for the OS installed.

Might also be worth going into safe mode, see if the same problem occurs.

 

[Chimerical]

Cheers everyone.

I'll run HDTUNE asap.

We've installed SP3 (successfully) before installing any major drivers so we'll probably go about rinsing Windows Update and then downloading GFX drivers, etc. off the web (instead of CD install).