Desktop took a 2 foot fall, works but crashes.

Chris8topher · Sep 5, 2014

It works great other than the fact that it crashes a few times a day. Its always a blue screen error about a corrupt page file or something.

What would you recommend replacing in it first, the motherboard or the CPU or the power supply? already got a new hard drive for it so I'm fairly certain its not a software/hard drive issue.

faalin · Sep 5, 2014

if you haven't already, reseat everything on the motherboard.... pull the heatsink off reseat the cpu, pull ram and reseat, and GPU and any add-in cards. I would even go as far as to unplug all power cables and reseat those as well.

ss202sl · Sep 5, 2014

The pagefile sits on the HDD. HDDs are also prone to failing due to dropping. Why would you not suspect that it's the HDD?

faalin · Sep 5, 2014

ss202sl :

other then the last line he posted was he already replaced the HDD

ss202sl · Sep 5, 2014

Did you already replace the HDD, or did you just "get the HDD". I read it as you purchased the drive, but had not yet replaced it.

Chris8topher · Sep 5, 2014

I replaced the HDD post fall, sorry for not clarifying. I will try to reset everything, thanks. If that fails whats the next step? mobo replacement?

faalin · Sep 5, 2014

try running memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com/ to test the ram. The next move would be motherboard, also check the cpu socket for bent pins when you have the cpu out. No telling what happened when it hit the floor.

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