Thursday, October 30, 2008

PC Problems Again

So yesterday morning I woke up and I caught my PC rebooting itself. I thought there had been a late night update installed as my PC is scheduled to do that.

I got into the shower and got out again and it was still rebooting itself....not good. Now I knew I had a problem. The last time I had this problem the ram had gone bad, well one stick of it had. I am pretty decent at diagnosing PC problems and repairing them so I was thinking when I got home from work this would be an easy fix.

Find the bad ram and use the other two gigs instead of three. Well not so fast there Hopalong. None of the ram was bad when I got home and tested it. SO now I had to boot off of the Vista DVD and run the chkdsk.

Also did not fix it. Now I know there is an internal drive error that neither the chkdsk or auto repair couldn't fix. Not a hardware problem either. Now it is time to give it to my friend Harry who loves the tougher repairs.

I've got it taken apart and the hard drive is out and ready to take with me so that Harry can diagnosis it a little more.

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