Originally posted by: dclive
Originally posted by: robisbell
unless you have a power source other than the house electrical that's 100% rock steady, then you can not dismiss the power being the main culprit. when you have a light tripping circuit breakers and who knows what else is going on electrically, you are inviting trouble to keep pushing your luck fiddling with a electrical device that may have been damaged by the electrical problems in the house, to dismiss the wiring problems is to invite trouble.
When you can repro an issue 100% of the time by doing a particular set of steps in Windows, as he's illustrated, it's a software issue.
Please detail the power issue you believe he has, and tell us why you believe it is a power issue.
there's another thread I posted about my GF's PC (locking up) she gets no BSOD's no dumps, it locks up only when she playing a game. I ran every test I could think on it to test mem/cpu/video. I explained she told me she's having power issues in the condo (my pc is there now) where if she uses her Microwave or something while on her PC it trips the circuit break and has to be reset. There is definitely a power issue in this place. I think his logic is pretty good. But, as you said when you can make something happen 100% of the time in certain spots it's typically software. Could be hardware - a HD comes to mind.
also he had me run PCWizard to report voltages I got this
+3.3 - 0.70 v
+5.5 - 0.94 v
+12v - 3.54 v
POWER/AUX 128 c
probably way off but concerning none the less, he thinks that's due to fault power, while I dispute the numbers there's no explanation why they're so far off. I know a PC won't boot with 3.54v on the 12v, and 128c would probably melt the PSU's inside no?
All I know is it's frustrating, gonna remove the AV completly tomorrow, if that doesn't do it. I will wipe Vista and install it clean, trying to duplicate the same BSOD's in the same fashion, adding drivers one by one until I figure out what's causing it.
As I mentioned in the first post my previous XP install (same box) I had gotten some "NTFS file system is unreadable" errors where I had to run chkdsk to fix. 2 partitions did this, I ended up with a lot of dead files. So that part has me puzzled while I'm still getting errors ,even if somewhat different (still tie into NTFS) on a clean, different OS.
so confusing
