Posts by encore018

i'm hoping so. i have just found a site, none of this makes sense to me but hopefully maybe you can see if this is the problem? http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm what do you think?

memtest made a complete pass and is 45% through pass #2 with 0 errors. I may let it run over night since its getting late. i'll try the western digital hard drive utility tommorow. TO FURTHER CLARIFY... I saw someone on here with a...

Thank you very much. As the computer is worth over a grand, i usually get nervous trying to trouble shoot. i'm glad someone is here to help me which is a sigh of relief.

i do have other hard drives. i shall try that and see where it leads me. is it possible that the motherboard and HDD are not connecting because of a problem on the mobo?

Alright thanks. Well, I would greatly appreciate it if you guys pointed me towards some links for all the tests i should run, and all the ISO files i need to download. EDIT: this is what i have so far to test HDD:...

well, i downloaded the linux live CD and i'm ready to try and boot from that. ONly thing is what should i check or run in linux. Memtest? i can't even boot into windows, and if i try using a windows CD, it gives me an error while...

alright. well, once i do get ubuntu and start it up without installing, what exactly am i looking for? should i run some sort of a program?

which linux should i get? i'm looking at this site right now. http://www.livecdlist.com/

no, i have none of those. Any idea where i can get my hands on one?

When i boot from the CD, it loads windows files and then gives me an error saying something along the lines that windows cannot communicate with a system component. and under that in a description it says this may be caused by removing...