FrozenBlade Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) For a year now, I have formatted my computer about 13 times, not because of problems, because of the urge to try out other OS's like Vista for example. and EVERY time I have put a new OS on my computer, everything ran perfect... until now.I have done about 3 clean installs this week..... again, but I cannot solve this, when Windows starts up with ANY third party firewall installed, my Hard Drive turns off and I get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) when I start my computer in safe mode everything works perfectly, even the firewall but when I go to check my event logs, it seems this is caused by a 'important' service not being able to start, now normally, this would be as easy as 1 2 3, but no... Every time I check to see what causes Windows XP to crash, they are random services, sometimes 1 or sometimes more and they are varying, the service could be something like my Catalyst Control Center to something like a music service not working and I HIGHLY doubt that a service of that type is important to Windows XP. All this has led me to believe is that I have some sort of Virus that is not in Windows, but is actually in my Hardware or BIOS, could this be possible and if so, how could I check to see?PS: I have not done a full format on my computer for a year, only a quick formats, scan disk hasen't found any problems either when I checked last night. Edited January 25, 2007 by FrozenBlade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 If you can repro the problem and make it blue screen, configure your machine for a complete memory dump and then cause it to bsod. The resulting dump might tell us what is hapening to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 I Can't do a mem dump at all, When the BSOD comes up, my computer runs but the Hard drive instantly looses power so Windows is not actually there anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 So, the machine BSODs, but the machine goes black right away and basically shuts off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 Yes, that is what is worrying me, It must be something to do with Hardware but I do not know what is doing it, I know it is not the CPU but I haven't been able to check the RAM, is there any utilities that will be able to tell me more about my Hardware besides the make and speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Yes, that is what is worrying me, It must be something to do with Hardware but I do not know what is doing it, I know it is not the CPU but I haven't been able to check the RAM, is there any utilities that will be able to tell me more about my Hardware besides the make and speed?If you have a spare hard drive somewhere, put it into your problematic computer, install XP on it and any other programs you think might be causing the problem and see if the problem reoccurs. Be sure to do a full format, not a quick one. If the problem reoccurs, then you've got yourself a hard drive problem. Otherwise... Well... It's something else. This might be time consuming, but if you want your computer working 100% of the time, then it's definitely worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 Ok I will give it a go and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Check PSU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 (edited) Well guys I did it, and I checked the PSU too And still no luck, still BSOD's or freezes completly after I install a third party firewall, at least I know my HDD's are ok now, think it is a problem with my Windows Disk? Edited January 27, 2007 by FrozenBlade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Well, it is possible (seems odd that it powers down though) - does your BIOS have an Automated System Restart (ASR) feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 Not that I know of, the only thing I have noticed is that the BIOS itself was actually running everything at max settings (which I thought was a bit stupid) so I reset the BIOS to factory Defaults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piyush pathak Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 you may clean ram & check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 Well, I give up, I have tried most of the normal things and still no luck, I guess I have gotta buy some new parts just to do some Hardware testing, well thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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