We built this pc almost 2 years ago. Its been great. Yesterday we played BF2 for 4 hours with no problems until last night we went to shut it down and it said it had to install windows updates before it shut down, ok so we did that. Now the computer would crash after a few minutes playing. Now we get windows must shut down errors.
We have done the memory test, tried to restore to a week ago, and also tried windows repair. Now we cant even get into windows most of the time. After about 10 attempts to get into windows this morning, I was able to burn my pictures and important docs to cd luckily.
I figured the windows is just corrupt so as a last resort I decided I would just do a fresh install of windows. I deleted the partition and started fresh with the install disk. It starts loading windows and at about 10 minutes in I get a "a problem has been detected and windows must shut down to prevent damage". How can windows have a problem when I havent even finished installing it yet?
I get this "IRQL_not_less_or_equal".
and a stop error.
I feel the update that installed corrupted my computer but we tried restoring to last week and it's still having the same problems. There has been no hardware changes since we installed the 8800GT 6 months ago.
My pc is dead in the water, can anyone tell me why windows wont install?
We have done the memory test, tried to restore to a week ago, and also tried windows repair. Now we cant even get into windows most of the time. After about 10 attempts to get into windows this morning, I was able to burn my pictures and important docs to cd luckily.
I figured the windows is just corrupt so as a last resort I decided I would just do a fresh install of windows. I deleted the partition and started fresh with the install disk. It starts loading windows and at about 10 minutes in I get a "a problem has been detected and windows must shut down to prevent damage". How can windows have a problem when I havent even finished installing it yet?
I get this "IRQL_not_less_or_equal".
and a stop error.
I feel the update that installed corrupted my computer but we tried restoring to last week and it's still having the same problems. There has been no hardware changes since we installed the 8800GT 6 months ago.
My pc is dead in the water, can anyone tell me why windows wont install?