Serious Hardware problem, HALP!

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#1 Darkfear2222
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Havent been to the GS Forum in awhile, figured id start here for help.

My computer has recently been randomly crashing, Ill boot it up and it'll start to load windows and it'll crash again. I'll repeat this MANY Times and sometimes it will come to an error screen asking me to goto safe mode or use the settings that worked last, Half the time it crashes a couple seconds after that.

I dont have a clue on where to start looking for the problem, im thinking my harddrive again but idk.

If i keep booting and rebooting enough times it comes up normally if im lucky but this isnt good at all i know. Sometimes when it crashes it beeps for about 5 seconds and stops, then does it again for another 5, Im clueless right now, please assist =3

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#2 rickykemp
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ok, well, sounds like either: overheating processor, or a RAM issue.
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#3 Darkfear2222
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Yeah, cause ive been through numerous things over heating and whatnot, never saw anything like this. I really need a new setup anyways
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#4 --Anna--
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Have you tried, booting up with your OS in DVD/CD drive, an do the "repair windows" option.
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#5 lightningbugx
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No Blue Screen or Green Screen of Deaths? Random? Try pulling RAM sticks and testing each one individually. If it can run on one RAM stick, then one of the others are bad.

Otherwise, what was the last thing done to your computer before the random crashing? I mean anything. Kicked a cable? Bumped the machine? Installed software? Browsing web pages? Installed hardware?

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#6 Darkfear2222
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Nope nothing had been changed, its all random out of the blue, no blue screens or anything either. I got a few more things to try before giving up i guess, i need an upgrade anyways. Thanks for the help
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#7 blackleather223
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Yea computers you know when they work you lovem and when they don't you want to take and toss them out a window buy hey that is life you know. Anyways aside from all of that I had some thing simaler happen once buy my pc would just reboot like your for no apperent reason and then once it whent into windows I would attempt to play a game or something and it would do it again and then some times a blue screen would come up so I never knew that that blue screen was bad anywas this kept on going for quit sometime and all of the sudden it shut down all together and I was unable to boot it back up come to fine out it was my Motherboard it just stopped had to wait 3 months or so and now it works fine. There was another time that I walked into my room and it smelled like some thing was burning come to fine out some thing whent in my powrer supply. It had power so if I wanted to I could use it but the fan wasn't working anyways all is goood now.
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#8 blazethe1
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i recently had random crashing issues and this is what i did.

if you can, safemode, or the time before the crash,

go quickly to the control panel
click performance and maintenance
click system
go to the advanced tab
under startup and recovery click settings
under system failure UNcheck automatically restart

wait for it to crash and if it's a system error you will get a blue screen with a stop code. write it down and google it.

if no blue screen, it's probably hardware.

good luck.

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#9 Mam00th
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Yea computers you know when they work you lovem and when they don't you want to take and toss them out a window buy hey that is life you know. Anyways aside from all of that I had some thing simaler happen once buy my pc would just reboot like your for no apperent reason and then once it whent into windows I would attempt to play a game or something and it would do it again and then some times a blue screen would come up so I never knew that that blue screen was bad anywas this kept on going for quit sometime and all of the sudden it shut down all together and I was unable to boot it back up come to fine out it was my Motherboard it just stopped had to wait 3 months or so and now it works fine. There was another time that I walked into my room and it smelled like some thing was burning come to fine out some thing whent in my powrer supply. It had power so if I wanted to I could use it but the fan wasn't working anyways all is goood now.blackleather223

Hasanyonereadthis entire wall of text. Seriously buddy, make paragraphs it makes it easier to read

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#10 blackleather223
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noby is perfect.
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#11 blazethe1
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noby is perfect.blackleather223

lol