OK, so I've been building computers for the past 15 years and have gotten pretty good at it, which is why this is so frustrating. I'm in the process of upgrading my bro-in-laws computer because he couldn't boot (everytime windows tried to load, he'd get the blue screen) and simply because he wanted to upgrade. So the steps i've taken are as follows....
We bought a new mobo, CPU, PSU, case, and Ram.
Kept the HD at first
Also kept the video card and the DVD drive.
I tried to reformat, kept getting crashes and blue screens.
Finally coming to the conclusion the hard drive is garbage, we got a new one. Windows installed from disk fine, no crashes, no problems. Everything seemed stable.
He gets it home, has a crash. A bit later, he tries to update the windows system rating and gets a blue screen.
After he tried to reboot from the blue screen, there was nothing. The computer turns on but doesn't actually do anything (no start up screens)
I'm so confused on why he's still having problems. I don't think it's the video card, although I could be wrong. I had the video card out and running off the mobo video and still had problems. I know it's possible that the corrupt hard drive could have damaged some of the new parts, but what's the chance of that, and which parts would most likely be the problem?
Any advice would really help. If we need to take the parts back, we only have a few more days and he lives an hour away from me.
Oh and I realize I didn't give any specifics on parts, I didn't think it was needed...but really quickly, he's running a AMD phenom II 1100T, a gigabyte mobo that was recommended by the worker where we got it (yes I should know better than take advice from someone at a store...), 4GB of samsung ddr3 ram, and a Radeon 4850.
We bought a new mobo, CPU, PSU, case, and Ram.
Kept the HD at first
Also kept the video card and the DVD drive.
I tried to reformat, kept getting crashes and blue screens.
Finally coming to the conclusion the hard drive is garbage, we got a new one. Windows installed from disk fine, no crashes, no problems. Everything seemed stable.
He gets it home, has a crash. A bit later, he tries to update the windows system rating and gets a blue screen.
After he tried to reboot from the blue screen, there was nothing. The computer turns on but doesn't actually do anything (no start up screens)
I'm so confused on why he's still having problems. I don't think it's the video card, although I could be wrong. I had the video card out and running off the mobo video and still had problems. I know it's possible that the corrupt hard drive could have damaged some of the new parts, but what's the chance of that, and which parts would most likely be the problem?
Any advice would really help. If we need to take the parts back, we only have a few more days and he lives an hour away from me.
Oh and I realize I didn't give any specifics on parts, I didn't think it was needed...but really quickly, he's running a AMD phenom II 1100T, a gigabyte mobo that was recommended by the worker where we got it (yes I should know better than take advice from someone at a store...), 4GB of samsung ddr3 ram, and a Radeon 4850.
