PC Keeps Restarting & Blue Screen of Death.

[Coldkilla]

My little brother was using his PC and for some reason we are having these issues:

1. He has to hit F1 to load Windows.
2. His PC starts to load windows (loading bar).
Then suddently a flash of blue comes up (yea BSOD). And it restarts again..

I took his WHOLE PC apart, including CPU & heatsink. Still, it does it.

His stats:
Motherboard: AN8 Ultra
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility.
1GB Ram
7600 XFX Video Card
Audigy Sound Card.

Boot Order:
HDD
CD ROM

No Floppy drive inside and USB support is enabled in BIOS.

The PC worked fine before and all of a sudden it started to do this.. ideas? Thanks

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I'm guessing ram going bad, try one stick at a time and see what happens

 

[Coldkilla]

Took 1 Ram stick out. No Change.
Replaced it with other stick. No Change.

Used one of my sticks of ram. No Change.

 

[bX510]

Safemode? Not sure if that helps.

 

[Coldkilla]

Even if I could.. What could one do...

The pc is on its side in my room... I have to reconnect it and dissconnect my pc in order to do anything. So I'd like to know what im looking for prior to switching the pc's.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Go into bios and turn off "restart on system error" that way it will stop on the blue screen and perhaps give you a clue as to the problem

 

[3chordcharlie]

If your cooling is good, I would suspect the PSU.

 

[Coldkilla]

I'll check it out later. Thanks. Any more ideas, post em!

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
If your cooling is good, I would suspect the PSU.

I agree. On any system that's already been tested with known-good RAM, the psu becomes the next suspect.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Since it is blue screening on you during Windows booting up, I would say that it is something wrong with Windows, maybe a file got corrupt. You probably might need to reinstall Windows.

 

[limer]

I remember having a problem similar to this and it ended up being bad capacitors on an older Abit motherboard. Drove me crazy for a couple days because the blue screen stop error code pointed to the page file on the HD iirc.

One example of bad caps

The goo exploded in mine were more of a black colouring, but this may because I didn't realize it was a problem for so long. Another site mentions they may rupture from the bottom so look carefully.