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Originally posted by La Flames Fan@Sep 9 2004, 04:09 PM
I consider myself pretty Computer savy, but this one has thrown me for a loop. For some reason my computer has started to crash and become unstable, Blue Screen of Death.
I try to run certain programs, and processes like DXDIAG and others and they don't load and after a few minutes they're "not responding". Now, when I go to close these processes through the task manager that's when my computer freezes, becomes unstable and crashes a fiery death. I can't figure it out for the life of me.
I've run spybot, ad aware and norton but these have not solved the problem. I recently put new RAM in the system, but for weeks it was working fine with no issues.
I need some major help....Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
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I had the same problem with my laptop a while back and I was running Windows XP, so I'm not so sure the OS is the problem. In my case, the blue screen of death signalled HD failure.
Do you hear a clicking noise sometimes coming from your computer? For me again, when the blue screen of death appeared, it was because portions of my memory were unusable (damaged) and whenever the CPU tried to access these portions of the memory, the computer would freeze and do a memory dump.
A quick Google search found me some tips I could try, but I didn't even bother with it, because replacing the HD is a better way to go. Also, you could try to go into DOS mode at startup, and run Scandisk (you might need to create a bootdisk for this application). Run Scandisk and it'll block off all the bad sectors on your HD. You'll lose all those portions and it might significantly decrease your usable memory, but at least you won't be surprised with the blue screen of wonder in the middle of something important.
It's not spyware or adware, so don't worry about that.