My frend gave me a compaq presario that is about 3 years old. He gave it to me with a virus and i had to reformat it. I installed windows XP and now when the installation was complete I rebooted the computer and now a blue screen pops out at startup and then the computer just restarts.
2007-01-19 13:46:31 · 3 answers · asked by lilgman424 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
No it isnt a bad HDD cuz i tried my other computers HDD on it and the same thing happened.
2007-01-19 13:56:47 · update #1
If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
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2007-01-19 13:56:00 · answer #1 · answered by asila 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the "blue screen of death". If thats the case, theres no easy way to fix it. Basically the BSOD occurs when you get an error that Windows can';t handle. Could be a hardware problem, or the virus is still on the HDD. If you replaced the hard drive, that might work...
2007-01-19 13:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by Deasel98 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardware issue.
Couild be motherboard, could be bad RAM, Corrupted Bios...do you see the bios post messages...or a windows boot screen or anything else.....could be a bad hard disk too.
2007-01-19 13:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋