Hi all, this is a Windows 7 PC. Two days ago it started freezing during regular use. No recent hardware or software changes.
Over the last two days, I got many blue screens, most for different alleged reasons (I saw stop codes 1A, 1E, 24, D1 and probably others too: these range from filesystem problems to memory problems,etc.). Other times the computer would suddenly freeze. Other it would reboot.
With such a variety of symptoms and the computer running normally otherwise, I assumed this is some hardware problem like faulty memory. The problem is that I did try substituting the DIMMS but the problems kept appearing (and I run memtests that reported no problems). Then I removed one of the video cards, then the other, and every time the computer would fail.
I'm running out of options, so I'm thinking maybe it is the motherboard itself? The question is whether there is anything else I can try before I start buying stuff without really knowing what is wrong. I wouldn't want to throw the whole system out.
Any suggestions will be really appreaciated.
Over the last two days, I got many blue screens, most for different alleged reasons (I saw stop codes 1A, 1E, 24, D1 and probably others too: these range from filesystem problems to memory problems,etc.). Other times the computer would suddenly freeze. Other it would reboot.
With such a variety of symptoms and the computer running normally otherwise, I assumed this is some hardware problem like faulty memory. The problem is that I did try substituting the DIMMS but the problems kept appearing (and I run memtests that reported no problems). Then I removed one of the video cards, then the other, and every time the computer would fail.
I'm running out of options, so I'm thinking maybe it is the motherboard itself? The question is whether there is anything else I can try before I start buying stuff without really knowing what is wrong. I wouldn't want to throw the whole system out.
Any suggestions will be really appreaciated.
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