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I'm running Vista Home Basic 32 on a computer not even a year old. When I log in (Safe mode w/|w/o networking, and regular) it works for about 5-20 minutes then freezes. Windows installer doesn't work as I tried to install Kaspersky to check for viruses, it got to the install point and crashed. I managed to keep the computer stable for a little longer period of time by ending all Windows Installer processes that were running, and kept ending them all when I checked.
This hasn't been the first time my computer has been acting up, it has been doing multiple things that get me mad. I am thinking either my Vista is bad or my MoBo is going as I got rid of a nForce SATA driver (nvstor.sys) and it became stable for 2 weeks, then I got a BSoD of the driver I removed. (The computer has sometimes not been finding my HD after a restart, which then makes me open it up and unplug/replug the SATA cables back in)
The damned thing has been to the shop 3 times now and they couldn't find anything wrong. Also I tried running Malwarebytes and the computer froze 5 minutes later in safe mode. I havn't tested the RAM, i'll do that tonight while I run a virus scan w/ this computer on the hard-drive.
Is this a vista issue, driver, device, or a virus/trojan/worm?
Please help, it sucks trying to play games on a computer w/ a 1.8ghz single core processor =(
Sorry if it's in the wrong section/forum/website but I want good tech smart people as the local computer shop does did-daly squat..
System specs:
HP Pavilion 6400z
Asus M2N68-LA micro ATX
AMD Sempron 1.8Ghz duel core
2gig Corsair XMS2 ddr2
Asus 8600gt Magic
This hasn't been the first time my computer has been acting up, it has been doing multiple things that get me mad. I am thinking either my Vista is bad or my MoBo is going as I got rid of a nForce SATA driver (nvstor.sys) and it became stable for 2 weeks, then I got a BSoD of the driver I removed. (The computer has sometimes not been finding my HD after a restart, which then makes me open it up and unplug/replug the SATA cables back in)
The damned thing has been to the shop 3 times now and they couldn't find anything wrong. Also I tried running Malwarebytes and the computer froze 5 minutes later in safe mode. I havn't tested the RAM, i'll do that tonight while I run a virus scan w/ this computer on the hard-drive.
Is this a vista issue, driver, device, or a virus/trojan/worm?
Please help, it sucks trying to play games on a computer w/ a 1.8ghz single core processor =(
Sorry if it's in the wrong section/forum/website but I want good tech smart people as the local computer shop does did-daly squat..
System specs:
HP Pavilion 6400z
Asus M2N68-LA micro ATX
AMD Sempron 1.8Ghz duel core
2gig Corsair XMS2 ddr2
Asus 8600gt Magic