here's the deal:
he said he uninstalled limewire and then restarted his computer. when it was booting back up it would just restart. so i go over there and take a look at it. what it was doing was booting up in winxp......just after the initial boot up screen left and it starts to bring in the gui, it restarts. so i was thinking just format the hard drive because he didn't have anything important on it. when i did that it would it would load all those drivers at first, then restart again. after a couple more restarts it started giving me errors like this
Problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to permit damage to your computer
stop (0x0000005, 0x8088eac9, 0xf8984f88, 0x00000000)
usb.sys
and on another restart i got
driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
stop (0x000000d1, 0xe117c004, 0x0000002, 0x00000001, 0xf84bffcf)
setupdd.sys address f84bffcf base at f84a1009 Datestamp 3d6dd67f
so i decided to start swapping out parts with parts from one of my extra computers. I swapped out the hard drive, video card....took out the sound card and network and i was still getting the same errors.
My only other guess is that his motherboard is fried or something. he has the epox EP-8K5A2 with an AMD 2000+. i don't think its the power supply just because its rebooting at the same time everytime. anyone have any ideas??
he said he uninstalled limewire and then restarted his computer. when it was booting back up it would just restart. so i go over there and take a look at it. what it was doing was booting up in winxp......just after the initial boot up screen left and it starts to bring in the gui, it restarts. so i was thinking just format the hard drive because he didn't have anything important on it. when i did that it would it would load all those drivers at first, then restart again. after a couple more restarts it started giving me errors like this
Problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to permit damage to your computer
stop (0x0000005, 0x8088eac9, 0xf8984f88, 0x00000000)
usb.sys
and on another restart i got
driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
stop (0x000000d1, 0xe117c004, 0x0000002, 0x00000001, 0xf84bffcf)
setupdd.sys address f84bffcf base at f84a1009 Datestamp 3d6dd67f
so i decided to start swapping out parts with parts from one of my extra computers. I swapped out the hard drive, video card....took out the sound card and network and i was still getting the same errors.
My only other guess is that his motherboard is fried or something. he has the epox EP-8K5A2 with an AMD 2000+. i don't think its the power supply just because its rebooting at the same time everytime. anyone have any ideas??