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[jim2311]

If the machines original fault was the Blue screen it is probably a sign of a faulty Hard drive.
Hard drives with OS already installed usually wont work in a alien machine.
Reading your post it appears you are getting the same result no matter what you try, so go into the BIOS and see if it has a virus check and switch it off. Could also try resetting ti factory setting in the BIOS.
Your really better to leave these things alone if you dont have the time or hardware to swap. You only end up with a bigger problem.

Good Luck.

[bri365]

Could be a ram issue. Try new memory or if you have two sticks in there already try taking one out or the other out to see if that helps. Also you may want to flash the bios.** No do not show the computer your willy**, flashing the bios is basically loading a new version of your bios over the version you have already.

[ady]

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[d0uga1]

Hi and thanks for the reply. the original HDD loaded but would freeze when windows finished loading. I tried to install windows directly but it kept failing so decided to pop a new HDD in and try to install windows onto that, that didnt work too. So stuck the new HDD into another computer and installed win xp, vista and win7 and then tried it in the other pc. I then get the blue screen when I try to load windows. I get a screen asking what to boot into safemode etc I have tried all the options but the machine just goes to the blue screen. I have tried to update the bios that didnt work and I cant see that the bios has a AV.

I have no idea whats going on and I have spent 10's of hours on trying to fix this and its doing my head in.

this is why your getting the blue screen. the stop 0x0000005c error is hardware/driver issue.

it because you installed windows on another pc so the drivers are installed for that pc and not the one your actually using the hdd in.

try to format the hdd in a working pc as a slave device (check the top/bottom of the hdd for a jumper clip and set it to slave) then once its been formatted (do a full format not a quick format) then set it back to master. put it back into the pc you want to use the hdd in and install windows on to it then all drivers, if you dont have the driver disks then look at all the hardware inside the pc and and note down the serial numbers and run them in google to find the drivers for that device.

once you have done this and you still get a bsod its a hardware error. to find out what hardware is failing you would have to change components 1 by 1 (ie change one stick of ram turn pc on if bsod happens change other peice of ram (if there is one) then change graphics card turn pc on if bsod happens keep doing this until bsod stops showing.)

hope this helps you out.

[James]

this is why your getting the blue screen. the stop 0x0000005c error is hardware/driver issue.

it because you installed windows on another pc so the drivers are installed for that pc and not the one your actually using the hdd in.

Not saying you're wrong d0ug, but I took my hdd out of my old system with windows installed on it, put it in my new setup (making it the only hdd in it) and windows loaded fine, and automatically installed the new settings itself.

ps This was win7 ultimate i did this with, dunno if that makes any diff.

[ady]

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[flyer]

i had a problem like this the other week.did not matter what copy of windows i put on it would just crash.but also my problem was with a system with xp.so i went to a friend of mine who said try a copy of windows orignal with nothing installed on it like service pack 3 or stuff like that.belive it or not that was the problem the computer i was doing did not like service pack 3

[d0uga1]

Not saying you're wrong d0ug, but I took my hdd out of my old system with windows installed on it, put it in my new setup (making it the only hdd in it) and windows loaded fine, and automatically installed the new settings itself.

ps This was win7 ultimate i did this with, dunno if that makes any diff.

95% of pc's giving stop codes (bsod) are driver issues (wrong drivers installed for hardware) the other 5% are hardware faults,the driver issue is what i would suggest was the cause of his bsod. i could very well be wrong with the first part of the advice i gave but i would (in this case) continue with the fault find exercise i suggested to try & find the source of the bsod.

if at the end of the trail and error solution the bsod still happens then check the cpu ( i always leave this as the last thing to check as it could be knackered)

unless people do these things they'll wont learn anything.

[d0uga1]

one more thing i'd suggest to do is strip the pc down by removing everything (ram, dvd drive, gfx card, card reader, etc.) so that you have every component out of the tower including the mainboard and rebuild the whole pc also clean with a hoover (and the furry brush type connector) the dust from it and try a new hdd in it (not the one you have trouble with.) you may have a wire that has become disconnected.

my cousin a few months ago had built himself a tower unit and when he plugged in the connector for the power supply he hadn't put it on properly and got bsod.

it may solve your problem or not but theres no harm in trying it.

hope you get it sorted out soon.

[todd1970]

one more thing i'd suggest to do is strip the pc down by removing everything (ram, dvd drive, gfx card, card reader, etc.) so that you have every component out of the tower including the mainboard and rebuild the whole pc also clean with a hoover (and the furry brush type connector) the dust from it and try a new hdd in it (not the one you have trouble with.) you may have a wire that has become disconnected.

my cousin a few months ago had built himself a tower unit and when he plugged in the connector for the power supply he hadn't put it on properly and got bsod.

it may solve your problem or not but theres no harm in trying it.

hope you get it sorted out soon.

Yeah , i was gonna suggest that myself , giving it a right good clean out .. there may be so much crap on the heatsink that the cpu is instantly overheating and shutting down.

Id be very catious however about using a hoover to do it..my m8 static shocked his £400 GFX from using a hoover..maybe he was just unlucky , 99 times out of 100 it would be ok.

Since then however ive always just used a small paintbrush with reasonably hard bristles to clean mine out .. safer that way i think or sometimes use a can of compressed air , although i have none left atm.

The BSOD your refering to could indicate a number of things as has already been suggested , bad driver , gubbed memory , faulty HD..the list goes on..without actually seeing it , its hard to make an accurate diagnosis.

[nails]

it could be many things, but i put it down to memory. loadup the bios and find the default state. if its a newish board you may have overclocked the ram, not in error but windows wint like the timing (it happened to me, i installed a whole windows setup at pc7100 or 889mhz ddr2, but if i try pc8500 or 1066mhz then windows point blank refues to boot further than the logo screen)

so, default your systtem setting, ven try removing a ram strip and see what happens, then try the other.

[ady]

Rob got the perfect solution here.......

Bring it down to Brighton--toss it in the sea--me, you and Nails goes out and have a few.........then pop to http://www.diamondhardware.com/ to pick a new PC up......

Sorted

Sod todd.......he lives too far away!