Computer problems

Hm, no, you see, the error pops out just after the first reboot while installing XP. I can't even access an OS.
 
I would eliminate the graphic card. If it was truly fried, you would be seeing artifacts on the screen. In fact, I doubt this problem has anything to do with your hardware. Um...Have you tried starting Windows in the Safe Mode? You do it by hitting F8 like a madman during startup, then choosing Safe Mode from the list. If you manage to start Windows in the Safe Mode, check Device Manager for hardware conflicts (especially pay attention to IRQ's, I/O range and memory range of your display adapter and your IDE controller). Another possibility is corrupted boot section of your hard drive. Maybe your HDD is damaged? Bah, you should have an expert take a look at your system.
 
Already tried that, comrade. Didn't work. A friend of mine will prolly look onto it this weekend.

Anyways, thanks everyone for the concern and support ;)
 
Have you tried cleaning all you motherboard's contact with Coca-Cola?

it's either going to work, or now you'll know why it's not working
 
Weird problem you have here. So you reboot and you only get a blue screen. Even if the OS didnt work POST should start at startup and the whole identifying primary master etc should also pop up, since youv'e flashed your bios it cant be anything wrong with it and I doubt its your graphics card, you could always use the built in in the motherboard to see if theres any difference. And it cant be CPU problem since you got the OS to run just before you rebooted and you got that blue screen, my guess is that it is a hardware problem and not a software problem, with my experience I would automaticly think its the Motherboard going haywire. Send a email to your motherboards manufacturer and explain your problems, all big manufacturers always have a big help service if anything goes wrong.
 
Try the "half-Split" diagnostic approach by "cutting" the problem in half you can narow down where the problem is.

If Hardware Fault:
1) Start by removing all add in PCI cards and AGP if your motherboard has an onboard one.

2) If this fixes it add the extra components back in one at a time until it faults. This works extremely well at pin-pointing hardware faults.

But on a hunch I would say it could be a currupted File Allocation Tables on the Hard Disk, this is rare but can cause strange sorts of problems. Run Fdisk and delete all the partitions. Then reboots and manualy creat a new Partition with Fdisk (FAT32 - if you want you can convert it later to NTFS), reboot and format it. Then run the XP Pro installation and install it on the new partition. If you were willing install it on a different drive altogether
 
WOOHOO!!

I got this worthless piece of scrap back into running condition!

Wasn't able to answer some of the newer posts because I was pretty sick, a "cold" I mysteriously catched last week evolved in a mere two days into a throat-rotting, pus-and-blood spitting, fever nightmare.

My computer took pity of my suffering, and was too afraid I'd abandon it for the french-keyboarded snail on dial-up, so it decided to work again.

Yay!
 
So you don't have any idea what was wrong with it, and you have no clue as to what you should do if it does that again.
 
*shrug* If it does the same fing again, I'll kick it in da balls.

And seriously, I formatted the system drive back to FAT32, and set the AGP cache from 16 to 32. It somehow worked.
 
See? I knew it was an issue with file systems. Techs will tell you: "Man, you should switch to NTFS, its so bugfree and efficient" but won't tell you of the little side effects it can have on your machine.
 
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