Need some help, please.

AdamHall

AdamHall

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Typical, my new computer should arrive tomorrow and in a jealous rage my current one has decided to die on me.

It was working fine all morning 'til I got a dreaded BSOD (STOP: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x8054D5F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F)) and I've received them quicker and quicker every time I've booted up since.

Now, the research I did indicated either a RAM error or a newly-installed piece of hardware or software. Since I haven't installed any new hardware OR software recently, I'm assuming it's the RAM (or more integral hardware :( ) that's at fault, but since I can't boot into XP long enough to run memtest or anything, I'm not sure what to do.

Any ideas?

I attempted an XP repair, but got slammed with an ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt error.

I've never experienced this problem before so I'm rather confused.
 
Yeah, I've just made one and started the boot.

Does it normally take ages to load it, though?

EDIT: It's got the 'Starting Caldera DR-DOS...' and all the copyright stuff, but it's just hanging there with a blinking cursor. :/
 
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Hmm. It appears that memtest doesn't load on my motherboard without disabling RAID... Which is already disabled. :/

This is pretty confusing.
 
Have you tried with just one stick, try it with one stick if theres a problem try the other one and take the first one out, so you boot 2 times with 1gb stick in, if you get in run memtest,

If not come back let me know
 
Can you try a different stick?

If not can you replae you graphics card with another one to see if thats the problem>
 
I don't have any spare sticks around the house, and the ones I do aren't compatible. Same goes for the gfx card.

The machine has got the Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi motherboard. Does anyone know if it has integrated graphics before I research it? I'm assuming it doesn't.
 
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