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In regards to a lonely computer with turretts

Lasthitlarry

Lasthitlarry

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This is a continuation from an earlier post that is so deep I cant find it.

My friends computer had a faulty psu that crapped out. Got a new psu in, computer booted up, went into windows, worked fine. Did a benchmark, play a high res game for an hour, left it on all night, no problems.

But when my friend reset the computer, it would do the same thing it had done a few times earlier: Would not boot into windows, when it got to the windows boot up screen (i believe), it would reset automatically. My friend got into the BIOS and monitored the temperatures, it stayed at 46 C and varied from 46 to 40.

I don't believe it is hardware related, but what happens when a crappy PSU dies?
Normally it takes something with it, but it doesn't seem that way with this computer, seems like it has to do with the boot procedure.

Please, I need help, thanks.
 
It could be viruses or spyware/adware or a failing hard drive too. Try starting it in Safe Mode next.
 
They are having a good natured "jab" at your spelling of "Tourette's".

The way you spelled it, implies a weapons movement platform. A "Turret".

Gentle
 
might just be me, but 40 - 46 C for an idle computer seems high. Try opening up the case and blowing a fan at the processor while it's on, see if that helps?
 
If you can get into safe mode, try to run a sector scan of your harddrive to check for bad sectors. This should tell you if the hard drive is ok.

btw: I've always found that 20 cSPLSLAS work better than SSRM6s at close range, after all your computer isn't going anywhere 🙂 (Mercs 4ever)
 
So, from what I'm guessing is that the 160GB Samsung hard drive I ordered from newegg might have bad sectors due to the power supply crapping out?

I'm thinking that if my friend tried to get into Windows several times and managed to get in and the computer works fine after that, then more than likely it's a boot procedure that gets into a loop, like it's searching for a mouse or something. Makes me think my friend isn't triple checking the wires like I told him to.

It's pretty frustrating building a computer for an impatient friend, though he is in Information Systems, so he should have SOME idea of what is going on. Oh well, it was my fault for picking the faulty power supply, I took a chance by trusting newegg's reviews, which I am now realizing are made up by newegg. Cheap parts = cheap performance.

Anything else besides bad sectors on the hard drive? I guess I just don't truly understand how that could happen. Also, his drive is split up 6GB/the rest, and last he checked the 6GB partition had 2+GB free.

A strange thing also: whenever I used Uptimer, it displayed negative numbers for the page file. I got my friend to change the page file over to the larger partition, and it is still negative. Oh well, I'm sure that's just a bug.

I can see how a simple nuking of the hard drive would help, but my friend claims that he has important stuff on his computer, and like I said, he is impatient and he really dreads installing Windows again.

Thanks in advance, I truly appreciate it. BUMP BUMP BUMP
 
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