Hey,

At christmas my family got a new pc (from Tiny, not the best I no), but its stats were fantastic and it appeared to be a great all round media centre for the family.

Since we got it however we have had many probems, and I need answers.

Its hard to explain, but one  way I can put it is that my PC KEEPS forgetting stuff.

-occasionally it will forget to load some programs or there will be an error on start up
-Sometimes it completely forgets user areas and will crash at the user screen
-Some windows components/settings will change
-Registry values occasionally have to be 'recovered by log or alternate copy(?)'
-other things such as not remembering my quick launch bar, control panel stops loading, system restore points dissapearing.....

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with the PC??!! I CANT have a virus as it has been reformatted 4 times sine christmas, all due to fatal spontaneous problems when booting up (completely out of the blue) such as blue SCREENING or missing important user files.  Sometimes the comp will work fine and other times it needs a couple of attempts to load properly and other times when i restart that is 'the end'. I fear it is heading to another big crash as completely out of the blue all my system restore points have vanished, control panel does not load, quick launch bar is missing even if I put it back on.... AHH!

I am sick of loosing all my data, and reformatting the comp.

Anyone any suggestions?

If you are unhappy with the pc take it back to where is was purchased  or call out the service techs......even though grenville has also crashed tiny/time pcs........the  warrenty is still ok !......There is no quick fix for why a pc does crash/hung/freezes.....loads of reasons slung together for cash reasons ....bad componenets used......etc the list is endless......Yeah well the thing is that Tiny are so unhelpful and almost adement that it is me that has screwed it up. I am sick of paying £1.50 a min on their stupid phone line talking to a brainless monkey who cant spell computer.

Does anyone have any idea if it could be a specific hardware issue? Or an idea what is wrong? I can give comp specs if you need  Try this>http://www.active-hardware.com/english/misc/sandra.html

to see if an hardware issue......and download spysweeper from webroot.com or adaware...from lavasoft.......and you can have VIRUSES.......they normally lurk in the system restore feature......disable it and disconnect from the while scanning for bugs.....Thanks.

Yeh I relise that my comp could have a bug but that should dissapear every time i reformat it.

My worry is that it is something more serious like caching problems or a nakered harddrive, as my computer is has been aparantly clean of viruses the 3 times it has completely crashed. I dont think software will fix the problem simply because I have tried all that stuff before and it hasnt helped. Does anyone know which if a specific malfunctioning piece of hardware could caus this....

Any more ideas lol??

I refer to answers i gave some moments ago!Do you have antivirus, antispyware, antitrojan and firewall set up before you connect to the internet?
A 'fresh' UNPROTECTED computer on the net has only minutes before infection occurs.yes I had all that set up before. it even went to a computer technician in college to be setup after the 3rd time it crashed. I have norton corporate, sygate firewall, spyware protection, adaware etc.....

Still it crashes.

Any more suggestions?   Did you take Merlin's advice and see if any hardware is causing this?

[glb]Gizmo73[/glb]It could be a fault HD...when we got our dell, our original HD had to be replaced