Re: windows hardware error message

I vote with peter and the psu guys.
If you haven't yet, try 1 mem stick after cleaning the fingers, and see what
happens.
Then the psu.

"Maxis" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
my computer started behaving badly, documents seemed to be corrupted,
I'd have to restart, then I started getting BSODs; but with different
error messsages, sometime it claimed it was corrupt drivers, other
times Boot Sector problems. Then nothing, not even beeps.
Things I've tried: new hard drive, reinstall of windows xp, install of
windows 2k, new graphics cards, single graphics card, turning off
shadowing in bios, turning on and off ECC in bios, updating bios,
swearing and hitting with hammer, taking out all cards except 1 very
basic graphics card, changing the battery.
And always the same result, I can usually install windows, but either
after the first re-boot or during the installation windows says it is
shutting down to prevent damage to the computer, and I get a bsod,
with, usually, a master boot record error.

the mobo is a tyan tiger mpx, the processors are amd athlon mp's, and
there are 3, 1 gig modules in the memory bank's. It's worked ok (well
as well as any windows box works) for about 2 years)

Any ideas anyone? and thanks very much for even getting this far...



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