Urgent Help Needed, My Computer Is About To Die!

[an-225]

I need help, fast. I'm getting runtime errors, out the wazoo, I have had a warning pop up telling me my memory is not sane. When I try to fly LOMAC/play BF2142, it crashes on load or in the menu/lobby. On startup of the computer, I get a notification about missing binary numbers in one of my BF2 mods. I have had the BSOD at least a dozen times in two days. I have tried system restore - didn't work. I have tried reinstalling windows and reformating - I get a message notifiying me that the XP disc cannot be read. On one crash, I sent an error report to MS, they came back telling me there was something wrong with one of my drivers. I did a scan and it shows no errors. I have done a virus scan too, quarantining and deleting suss files. Can someone PLEASE help! Please, it cannot die now, I can't afford another computer...

[a1]

Did you get it to a computer expert like a tech shop or something that has professional people?

I have a hunch that this is the OS. if you reinstall Windows it might help.

[an-225]

But the problem is, it can't read my windows XP disc.

[ctjoyce]

Alright, what exact hex codes are you getting from your BSODs? It sounds like you have a few issues. First being faulty RAM, and secondly a bad Optical drive. But get back to me with those BSOD hexes and I'll see what I can do.

A BSOD hex will look like this: 0x0A or 0x7E etc. There are going to be a crap load of zeros, just cut out all except the last two digits and we are in business.

Cheers
Cameron

[dcunning30]

When you tried to reinstall your OS, did you put the CD in and do a hard reboot so the computer will boot from the CD and not the HD?

I'm suspicious you might be the victim of some nasty virus or trojan.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Since it seems you did a system restore before a virus scan it is possible the restore process also made backups of any malware/virus files on your system.

[Politically Incorrect]

Since it seems you did a system restore before a virus scan it is possible the restore process also made backups of any malware/virus files on your system.

Exactly, purge System restore by turning it off, then run your virus/spyware scans. Virus scanners can't scan System Restore files.