Computer Help!!!!

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

Hard drive crash would be my guess if it's not giving a STOP code just before it tries to boot to Windows. The blue screen will flash for just a second, unless you hit F5 and check the "pause during errors message" (or whatever it says). The STOP code will be something like 0x000000024 and then some numbers in parentheses.

I agree with that too. It's most likely some kind of hardware failure. Sounds a lot like bad RAM too.

Definitely (if you can) find the restore disk and tell them to put it in and make it to the "Press R to repair" screen NOT Windows Recovery Console and that way they could at least boot the machine without taking the hard drive out and back up their stuff.

Just an FYI, if people are ever willing to pay shipping back and forth, I'm glad to fix up any broken/problematic machines that people have. Just a way to pay it forward..