A YEAR and a half ago, my dad bought and assembled a PC by himself. Initially, it worked pretty well. Then one day, it started to experience problems - blue screens during the start up process, during and before the user login screen. He gave up on it after a while and kept it in a corner.

Recently, I took it out, and the same problems surfaced. After a one or two rounds of system repairs or restore, it would usually SUCCESSFULLY boot up, but the very same problems would resurface the day after.

So far I've tried stuff like changing the hard drive, or reformatting the system. It doesn't work. Now, the PC won't even be to reach the loading screen, and all it gives is a black screen after the early stages of booting up.

This are my specs:

Motherboard P7P55D

Intel i7 Quad core 2.93 GH (8MB)

Graphic Card: XFX HD4850 512MB 625M - DDR3 PCIE (k8h057626)

RAM: Team Xtream DDR3 2000/LV/4GB kit

I suspect that either the RAM is faulty or the components are incompatible. Help would be much appreciated on what I should do. Thanks!!


Download BlueScreenView:
HTTP://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe to run the program.
when scanning is done, go to EDIT - Select All
Go to FILE - SAVE Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all of the content, and paste it into your next replyThe problem is that now I can't even boot up the computer now. The problem with my PC seemed to have worsened. And from what I can remember, there seem to be a multiple reasons given for the blue screens, i.e. when the blue screens were on long enough for me to catch a glimpse. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks.Well, without knowing the exact nature of the bsod it's impossible to diagnose. Here are some general troubleshooting steps:

1) To check the ram, download memtest (http://www.memtest.org/). Burn it to a cd, make sure the cd drive is at the top of the boot order in bios, then boot to the newly created cd and run the utility

2) To check the hd, go to the website of your hd manufacturer and download their diagnostic utility. Burn it to cd, boot to it, run it.

3) Depending on your OS, either a repair install or a startup repair.Hi, I tried out what U suggested. The Memtest couldn't even initialize. When it looked as if it were booting up, the comp screen just goes blank. The PC is still running, but the monitor displays a black screen.

The same occurred for system repair and restore. I used my windows cd to boot up, and when it restarted after completing sys repair/restore, the screen just blanked out too, at the point where the hard drive was being booted up.
could be a BIOS defect?
Only a guess