Originally posted by: thecrecarc
well, im clueless right now, could be my temps, or my mobo, or my hardrive. or even my video card. so... basically, i have no idea whats wrong.
how do u disable nic? what are NIC anywho?
You need to quit posting other ppl... Can't you tell he is confused? Thecrecarc needs to try one thing at a time, then you need to wait for him to respond and say what he's done and how effective it was...
If he wants he can reread the thread... There is no reason to keep posting the same thing over and over, (i.e. really annoying). This is not a phone conversation...
Anyhow, if memtest is freezing outside of Windows, then it must be a hardware issue as Slammy suggested... reread our prior posts if necessary, and yes, writing zeroes completely erases all data... The only reason to do it is when, 1. you already have a backup of all current data, 2. you want to be absolutely certain that there is a drive failure and you don't have the money or would rather not purchase a new one, 3. It will eliminate any virus (which does not apply in this case), 4. you have exhausted every other troubleshooting step (which we haven't). Try putting the RAM in another test system if you/friend have one available, and do the memtest again with the boot CD. Even if the memory is bad it won't effect the other system when you use the boot CD for memtest, because nothing will be written to the HDD.
In Fact, while you're doing the memtest on your machine, since you're using a boot CD, you might as well unplug the power/data cables from the hard drive, since it's not needed for the test. That way you can be sure that it's not the hard drive without having to erase stuff. You could also have a combination of issues, and that's why you need to try one thing at a time, and whenever you can pull something out of the system that is not vital to the test you are trying then do it.
edit: It may even help to print this entire thread out and have a paper copy, so you can refer to it, since your computer doesn't stay on very long. Cross off things you've already done and haven't had any effect or given any useful information, and circle what you're going to do next (and wait to cross it off until you're sure that's not the issue), and make notes on things that helped or questions.
BFonnes
...Read this last part only if you want more technical info...
To POST, you only need RAM, mobo, CPU, vidcard. A system can POST without a hard drive. Therefore unplug it until you are sure that at least your basic components are working 100%... It is likely since the system is successfully posting, that it is just a hard drive issue, but it is good to test the RAM just in case you have multiple component failure, because if you have bad RAM, it can corrupt your hard drive by writing bad data. So, what appears at times to be a hard drive issue can be a RAM issue (with a corrupted, but working HDD), so it is NECESSARY to test the RAM still and make sure that it is working 100%.