Recent content by AdamW81

Ok well after a reformat I'm crashing and getting errors like crazy while installing all the drivers and such, so I guess that means we are back to a hard drive issue? Windows installed fine but I have not even hooked up online yet, just been trying to install drivers and getting errors and a...

I do have a router and as far as a password, it was just loading normally and wanted a password. If I just hit enter it said that domain adammain was not available (adammain is the computers name)

Well after that last shutdown its asking for a password to get back into windows when I have never used on this machine. Virus protection was out of date since I had not run this computer in a few months, its possible something jumped me right after I got it back up last night or could have...

Ok looks like something is still wrong. I can get into windows now but if I try to do anything, like start up internet explorer, it restarts itself. It will also pop a screen with a countdown to shutdown in 60 seconds due to some error.

Ok well it may be fixed...after replacing the memory I still had the same error as I mentioned above. With the new memory I ran the windows xp disc and was able to not get a blue screen and use the repair function. I got to the recovery console and ran chkdsk /p /r and now windows is starting...

Gah, replaced the RAM and it still restarts at the windows loading screen. Could it be a power supply issue? It seems at this point that and the motherboard are all thats left. I'm so sick of this stupid thing.

I'm going to return the hard drive I bought and get some RAM. Hopefully thats it!

I am not doing any changes to timing. I bought a new hard drive and started putting windows on it and got a blue screen again saying that "IQRL_NOT_LESS__OR_EQUAL" What's weird is I can't seem to try out just one stick of RAM. If I remove either one I get the long beep on start up from the...

Ok maybe it is a memory issue. If I switch my 2 1gb of ram (switch their slots) I get either the original problem or I get to the windows loading restart problem. If I try taking one out and leaving one in the computer won't start at all. Shouldn't I be able to leave one in and the other out?

When I tell it to go to safe mode it spits out a ton of lines saying: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition1\WINDOWS\system32\"x" where "x" changes each line and is a bunch of different things. It spits out probably 30 lines like that then restarts itself.

so it is the hard drive? Its weird because diagnostics didnt find any issues with it

Well now not even safe mode works again. It hangs up and restarts.

Safe mode works. I went and and used system restore to jump back to a previous date that worked but it still restarts everytime at the loading screen for windows if I just start up normally. This is so weird

I ran the diagnostic tests on the hd and it didnt find any errors. The computer still restarts at the windows loading screen. Any other ideas? Maybe it is registry errors.

Well I tried changing my memory from an old computer but it didnt like that so I just put the original memory back in and got strange new things happening now. Barts will run and I am currently doing chkdsk. chkdsk /p wont work it doesnt recognize p so I did chkdsk c: /r. I think the /r...