5punk

silly question time.
Is the fan actually going around at all (or only slowly)?

yep cpu and gpu fans going, 3 case fans going and psu fan going

error codes i'm getting are as follows

stop 0x000000F4 (0x00000003 0x86F4A2C0 0x86F4A434 0x805FA160

if that means anything to anyone

i know this isn't a help THE Incredible... forum, despite how i treat it sometimes but any help would be appreciated if i can avoid paying a £50 call out charge for a pro, who might not know jack shit anyway

short answer: hit it in the face with memtest


long answer: bit of googling says that error is usually related to memory or paging file issues.

As memory is easier to diagnose, start there by running memtest on call your sticks of ram, if you get errors, try one at a time to work out which sticks are dead.


oh, and don't worry, this is forum is here for everyone's puter issues, so post as much as you need to.

if my memory (no pun intended) serves me correctly, memtest needs to be run from a floppy, and my floppy drive is dead.

can it be run from a cd?

yup, they have a cd image that works fine.

is that the bootable iso one?

yup.

burn it using the iso or disk image option of your fave burning app.

meep

neither alcohol 120 or nero like the .bin

edit: nevermind fucking numpty downloaded the wrong file

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:oh, and don't worry, this is forum is here for everyone's puter issues, so post as much as you need to.

We may all be childish cunts, but if someone needs help, we deliver! Go taem 5punk!1eleventy!

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Fix'd.

Also, I've seen conflicting reports about the cause of an error like the one described. Try running chkdsk as well.

eion wrote:Also, I've seen conflicting reports about the cause of an error like the one described. Try running chkdsk as well.

but I figured get the memory out of the way first, as that's less work for me

Eion wrote:

HereComesPete wrote:We may all be childish cunts, but if someone needs help nude non-platonic love or a quick grope, we deliver when they're least expecting it! Go taem 5punk!1eleventy!
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Fix'd.

better fix'd.

It would have been far easier to just write something of mediocre wit here, but I foolishly decided to spend an age doing instead, I'm a cupcake just for doing that.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote: but I figured get the memory out of the way first, as that's less work for me

I believe rohypnol is good for this particular problem.

HereComesPete wrote:I believe rohypnol is good for this particular problem.

pfffffffffffff

ok i didn't think to ask what i'm actually looking for in memtest.

i'm guessing it's simply a matter of no errors = good, but then it's something else that needs looking at

and any errors at all = bad, replace ram time

Yup, that's pretty much it.

put simply, if memtest found nothing... FORMAT TIEM GO!!!

should look something like this:

<img src="http://i.techrepublic.com.com/gallery/5924-500-693.jpg">

Killavodka wrote:put simply, if memtest found nothing... FORMAT TIEM GO!!!

That's really bad advice.

no it isnt, ive had to format many times due to Windows shitting itself