Well, I'm still having some computer problems and thought I'd get all of your advice.
After putting in a new motherboard (ASROCK K7V88) and new CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2100) my computer would start up and load windows just fine. But every time I would try to run any kind of program like AIM, Winamp, Ad-Aware, etc., the whole system would just shut off and restart itself. Every once and a while it would only start up in safe mode.
Since I was having trouble with the system in general and I had just done some major hardware changes I figured I might as well reinstall windows. So I go through the whole formatting process fine, but everytime it trys to laod windows to finish the install process it shuts down like it was doing before. Now I can't do anything because I can't get past the initial boot process before it shuts down.
Does this sound like a hard drive issue? It's not really making any strange noises, but I can't imagine what else could be wrong. About a month ago, SecretMethod70 put my hard drive in his computer and it seemed to be working fine, but I suppose some damage could have occured to it since then.
So, any ideas would be great! And if it is the hard drive, what is a good hard drive to buy? Thanks!