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Is my PC dead?

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moneer

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Hey....
So i was using windows when all of a sudden the blue screen of death appears. My windows partition has been stuck on these blue screeen death cycles. Each time with a new error message. When using linux mint. After some time it goes to fall back mode and freezes. What can i do? Is it hopeless?
 
Can you maybe take a picture of the blue screen errors?

How many sticks of ram do you got? If you got more than 1, try taking 1 of them out, or all of them but 1 and see if it boots. Swap sticks in 1 at a time and not in the same socket.

Have you done a full reset on your PC? Turn it off, unplug the power chord, and remove the battery on the motherboard, place it back in then boot it back up and see what happens.
 
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Chaotic0ne said:
Can you maybe take a picture of the blue screen errors?

How many sticks of ram do you got? If you got more than 1, try taking 1 of them out, or all of them but 1 and see if it boots.

Have you done a full reset on your PC? Turn it off, unplug the power chord, and remove the battery on the motherboard, place it back in then boot it back up and see what happens.
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The blue screens don't last long. I will try the ram thing. And I'm afraid of frying the motherboard by messing around with it.
 
moneer said:
The blue screens don't last long. I will try the ram thing. And I'm afraid of frying the motherboard by messing around with it.
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Don't stand on carpet or any other material that can create static. Rubber soles rubbing on carpet creates static electricity. Touch the metal part of the inside of the case before you stick your hands anywhere near the hardware.

Try the full reset as well. Sometimes resetting the CMOS can solve a lot of weird stuff going on. I've seen my PC repeatedly boot up, crash and reset in an endless cycle, and a full reset fixed the problem. If you're lucky, that might fix your problem as well.
 
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Chaotic0ne said:
Don't stand on carpet or any other material that can create static. Rubber soles rubbing on carpet creates static electricity. Touch the metal part of the inside of the case before you stick your hands anywhere near the hardware.
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So far so good. I removed two older ram modules that i had and it booted. I also made sure the graphics card was correctly placed. I will let you know if it happens again.
 
moneer said:
So far so good. I removed two older ram modules that i had and it booted. I also made sure the graphics card was correctly placed. I will let you know if it happens again.
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You should place them 1 at a time to make sure they're both bad. You could have a bad ram socket. Take the good stick of ram and place it in the socket/s that could be bad and see if it boots. If no, then = bad ram socket. Its pretty crucial you troubleshoot to see if you got a bad ram socket prior to ordering more sticks of ram.
 
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In Windows, you can go to the Advanced System Settings (type "advanced settings" in the search box and look for "View Advanced Settings". Click on the Startup and Recovery settings button. Under System Failure, remove the check from "Automatically Restart". Also, while you are there, under "Write debugging information" select "Kernel memory dump" and hit OK.

Now, if your computer bluescreens, it won't automatically restart (you'll have to manually power cycle it). It will also try to write a kernel memory dump file which you can interpret with software like the free version of WhoCrashed to try to determine the cause of the issue.

The fact you are having problems with two different OSes on the same machine pretty much guarantees a hardware problem. It might not be a bad idea to run a MEMTEST86+ or Windows memory diagnostic session along with checking the SMART status of your storage drives.
 
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Steltek said:
In Windows, you can go to the Advanced System Settings (type "advanced settings" in the search box and look for "View Advanced Settings". Click on the Startup and Recovery settings button. Under System Failure, remove the check from "Automatically Restart". Also, while you are there, under "Write debugging information" select "Kernel memory dump" and hit OK.

Now, if your computer bluescreens, it won't automatically restart (you'll have to manually power cycle it). It will also try to write a kernel memory dump file which you can interpret with software like the free version of WhoCrashed to try to determine the cause of the issue.

The fact you are having problems with two different OSes on the same machine pretty much guarantees a hardware problem. It might not be a bad idea to run a MEMTEST86+ or Windows memory diagnostic session along with checking the SMART status of your storage drives.
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Now my question is how do i run the crash test program if my pc never boots? That's what was happening earlier today
 
moneer said:
Now my question is how do i run the crash test program if my pc never boots? That's what was happening earlier today
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Can you boot it from a CD or a USB drive? You can download and burn an ISO version of MEMTEST86+. You should also be able to download a burnable ISO for hard drive diagnostic software from the website of manufacturer of your hard drive.
 
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