Update on my computer woes

[SomethingClever]

A few weeks ago, my computer died. It was running in the morning, it went to sleep and I couldn't wake it up.

I pretty much isolated the problem to the motherboard, but I didn't have a chance to buy a new one until yesterday.

Also, I didn't realize that I would need to buy the same chipset motherboard if I didn't want to re-install Windows XP (thanks Microsoft, you bitches).

Anyway, yesterday I got the EXACT same motherboard, put it all together and fired it up. Results copied from an email to a friend.

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I got everything put back together with the new board and fired it up. It was trying to boot windows, but for some reason the keyboard wouldn't work. It got to the screen where it asked if you want to boot in safe mode or start windows normally, the keyboard wouldn't let me select anything, then it would reboot. Also, it wasn't letting me into cmos.... also related to the keyboard.

I plugged/unplugged the keyboard and power several times, and finally got it to where I could get into cmos and set the boot drive correctly. In the meantime, at one point the keyboard was working, but it was EXTREMELY fast, like you just tap the arrow and it went 5 spaces. Anyway, it finally booted and I got into Windows normally.

Only the keyboard didn't work in Windows! What a coincidence, I thought, that the keyboard would fail at the same time. I was able to do a few things like connect to the internet and download new virus definitions, then I thought I'd go to Freddy's and get a new keyboard.

When I got back the computer had gone to sleep and wouldn't come back on, just like it did when I first had the problem! I rebooted, but now it wouldn't go all the way back into windows. Just when it was about to, it kept rebooting. At one point it decided to check the file allocation table of drive E for some reason. I also got a few BSOD errors like BAD_POOL_HEADER and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT.

So now I'm thinking there is a major resource conflict that's screwing everything up. Argh. I guess I should go back to trying a different video card again?

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Any thoughts from this forum? I'm sorta at a loss.