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Four hardrives 4 months!
My nephew, age 14, has a computer which was custom built for gaming. It is not cutting edge, however, it was put together specifically for gaming. Anyway, over the last five months, this thing has been to the shop three times. All the shop did was replace the harddrive the first couple of times. The third time, they replaced the harddrive, motherboard, powersupply and all the cables. That was a month ago. Guess what I have on my bench right now? It's down again! All parties are collectively scratching our heads and so far, no one has figured this thing out. This time I opted to fix the thing myself, and have determined that it is a software issue. This is what is so strange. How could a software issue cause this problem? I of course suspect a virus since he does share software with friends. The difficult thing is that the harddrive is toasted and I am unable to load networking, which effectively rules out online virus checking. I know this description is somewhat nebulous, but, I really didn't want to post a novel.
Basic specs
AMD Athlon XP 2800 2.0 gHz
512 Mb memory
MSI KT6V motherboard MS-7021 Ver: 1
MSI Geforce FX5700 TD128
XP Home edition
CD, DVD, Floppy
Any shared experience would be helpful. Thanks.
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