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Hello, a few months ago, i have built a desktop, including an Asus P5QL PRO (rest of the rig on my profile). But today, while playing COD4 online (using Vista x64 btw), the blue screen of death suddenly came up (physical memory dump something), and my computer shut down. After rebooting, it was stuck at the boot screen and been this way ever since. This is urgent, although I was gaming, the PC contains an essay I have to give out by tomorrow (GMT +1), and have no back up PC.
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try clearing the cmos with the jumpers
if you don't know how to, consult the manual

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Reply to mindless728

You need to check your RAM settings...did you OC this PC?

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Reply to Kill@dor

mindless728 wrote :

try clearing the cmos with the jumpers
if you don't know how to, consult the manual

If it is the circular 3V battery that is used to clear the BIOS, I have already tried. Nothing changed. Wierd, cuz it was working fine until a few hours ago (physical memory dump....)

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Kill@dor wrote :

You need to check your RAM settings...did you OC this PC?

I have overclocked it a few times, but cleared the CMOS by pulling that circular battery a week ago. And as far as I know, everything is in its place. My rig worked fine until I got that physical memory dump (aka blue screen of death)

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BSOD's are very often caused by faulty RAM. I would try booting with just one stick of RAM installed. If that one doesn't work, try the other one. You should also try them in each RAM slot to eliminate a dead RAM slot as the problem. Here's a couple more links that may help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] t-problems (This should be the first place to go for problems like yours)

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] g#t1934282

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/f [...] e?page=0,0

Reply to shortstuff_mt

I have tried all of your suggestions, but it still won't boot. I think this was caused by the blue screen of death, and not hardware-related.

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To clear the CMOS, you have to remove a jumper and reposition it to the next two adjacent pins. Wait 10 seconds and replace it to its normal position.
IMO, BSODs are more often caused by hardware conflicts than software.

Can you get to the power page or hardware monitor screen in BIOS and check the temps?

Reply to HundredIslandsBoy

Hey guys, I have tried to boot with my Vista installation CD WITHOUT my keyboard, and it actually worked until the installation screen came on. Now I'm stuck again. But this made me curious, can the problem be caused by a faulty keyboard, or a recent keyboard change?

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