bad mobo...bad psu...either could be killing your hardware.
Ok OCN, i need some help this time...
Ok, ill start off by saying hello everyone
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my father has been having some problems lately with his computer, the easiest way to explain it seems to be explaining that about every 3 months, the computer will crash and the whole windows partition is erased, including his user info and documents. Now after this happens windows will no longer boot even after writing a new boot sector, its still bsod's. The past few times this has happened i formatted and reinstalled windows and ran a drive fitness check, it was at 98% and seem to be running strong, however on one ocasion after this i had to replace the whole hdd, yet it continues to do this after replacing the hdd.
Would the motherboard have anything to do with this?
Mobo is a : Foxconn a74mx AM2+ motherboard
hdd is a : Seagate st3250410aj
My best assumption is that the motherboard is causing the problem somewhere, the drivers are always correctly installed after the new windows installations too....
hmmmm, any suggestions?
Sorry if my writing above seems a bit jumbled, i just got home from a hard days work to find a non-working pc :/
my father has been having some problems lately with his computer, the easiest way to explain it seems to be explaining that about every 3 months, the computer will crash and the whole windows partition is erased, including his user info and documents. Now after this happens windows will no longer boot even after writing a new boot sector, its still bsod's. The past few times this has happened i formatted and reinstalled windows and ran a drive fitness check, it was at 98% and seem to be running strong, however on one ocasion after this i had to replace the whole hdd, yet it continues to do this after replacing the hdd.
Would the motherboard have anything to do with this?
Mobo is a : Foxconn a74mx AM2+ motherboard
hdd is a : Seagate st3250410aj
My best assumption is that the motherboard is causing the problem somewhere, the drivers are always correctly installed after the new windows installations too....
hmmmm, any suggestions?
Sorry if my writing above seems a bit jumbled, i just got home from a hard days work to find a non-working pc :/
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There is a memory test that comes with Windows that you can run before the OS boots up, I think MemTest has something similar. I highly recommend taking this extra step just to be sure, for months I was having BSODs that seemed like it might be the RAM, but MemTest would run hours just fine, until I ran the Microsoft version of a memory test during boot up, then it founds issues every time I ran the test, and found the issues within minutes.
Originally Posted by heelsparky0501  Ok, im running memtest as we speak, will post back with results.. |
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