I put a new system together earlier this year, installed WindowsXP, and have been running fine since then. Yesterday, I was in the middle of a game of Warcraft III when Windows crashed and rebooted, it came back up fine for awhile, but then once again rebooted itself without warning. After that it would no long boot back up, but would give me a blue screen, or on a rare occasion, I could get to the desktop, but then it would quickly either give me the blue screen or reboot itself.
So, after failing to fix this, I just decided I would format the hard drive and reinstall. However, now when I am trying to reinstall windows, it's been crashing early on in the installation process with protection faults and vaious other error messages. I've tried reformatting the C: partition, erasing and recrating the partition, etc, but I can't figure out what's going on here. Is there something wrong the hard drive physically? The data on the D: partition seems uneffected, but I simply cannot get Windows to install anymore. Any ideas? Here's my system specs:
ECS K7S5a motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1700
384mb DDR RAM
60gb Western Digital 7200rpm drive (partitioned into a 10gb, and 50gb partitions)
Lite-On 24X CD-RW
ATI Radeon LE
Sounblaster Audigy
Any help would be most appreciated.
So, after failing to fix this, I just decided I would format the hard drive and reinstall. However, now when I am trying to reinstall windows, it's been crashing early on in the installation process with protection faults and vaious other error messages. I've tried reformatting the C: partition, erasing and recrating the partition, etc, but I can't figure out what's going on here. Is there something wrong the hard drive physically? The data on the D: partition seems uneffected, but I simply cannot get Windows to install anymore. Any ideas? Here's my system specs:
ECS K7S5a motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1700
384mb DDR RAM
60gb Western Digital 7200rpm drive (partitioned into a 10gb, and 50gb partitions)
Lite-On 24X CD-RW
ATI Radeon LE
Sounblaster Audigy
Any help would be most appreciated.