A couple of days ago my installation of Vista started to go nuclear, e.g Windows Explorer crash every 3 seconds, total freeze up and then BScOD. Obviously it was time to resinstall windows.
But when I went to boot from the installation disk, it was hanging and giving problems. After a few reboot i get to where I am now...
On startup I get a constant series of beeps.
I've done some reading on the net and found this is a BIOS warning for the hardware, and I'm 99% sure im on an AWARD BIOS. So the beeps are most likely the memory or the CPU.
We'll I know for a start its not the memory as I had some spare stick lying around, so after changing them over, it still didn't change.
After looking round the house, I discovered an older machine I had with the same socket and spec processor, although this system stopped working with no indication why, I swapped the CPUs over and the problem continues, but the CPU may or may not be working.
Someone told me it could be a loose gfx card, so I've refitted that, and still nothing...
So I'm out of ideas, can anyone help me?
But when I went to boot from the installation disk, it was hanging and giving problems. After a few reboot i get to where I am now...
On startup I get a constant series of beeps.
I've done some reading on the net and found this is a BIOS warning for the hardware, and I'm 99% sure im on an AWARD BIOS. So the beeps are most likely the memory or the CPU.
We'll I know for a start its not the memory as I had some spare stick lying around, so after changing them over, it still didn't change.
After looking round the house, I discovered an older machine I had with the same socket and spec processor, although this system stopped working with no indication why, I swapped the CPUs over and the problem continues, but the CPU may or may not be working.
Someone told me it could be a loose gfx card, so I've refitted that, and still nothing...
So I'm out of ideas, can anyone help me?