Johnboy wrote:
> I checked your web link and one of the posibilities was overheating, so I
> opened the tower and blew it out fordust bunnies and started it while it was
> open. I got to try the "last safe configuration" and it almost made it
> through the process before dying. Then I got to the safe mode and it booted
> up. Just as I was going to disabe some of the start up programs, it flashed
> the "blue screen of death" that says something like "starting physical
> memory dump".
>
> I'll keep on trying and waiting on other comments. I have a 500GB SATA HD,
> might that be bad?
Any one of the many hardware components might be bad. That's why I gave
you the link to various hardware troubleshooting steps. All
troubleshooting - hardware or software - should be done systematically.
Make only one change/test at a time, make notes, see what happens after
each troubleshooting step.
Malke
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