Windows 7 has killed my PC

[xopher]

Might be a bad windows 7 disc actually.

[Wrish]

Event log tells you the computer is not writing properly to the hard drive. There could be a defective Southbridge on the motherboard, a bad connection to the hard drive (re-seat the cable), or a bad drive controller (the circuit board on the HD). You ruled out memory. A hard drive can easily go bad from static electricity during removal/replacement as part of changing the motherboard.

In addition, the time frame of the symptoms makes me suspect a poor power supply. At least check that the 4- or 8-pin auxiliary power cable is firmly attached. With inadequate power, most boards will appear to have failing components when loaded, whereas testing individual components won't reveal any defects.

[Aja]

Well I have gotten everything back to normal and so far so good. Been running 7 hours with no freeze or error.

[Aja]

Well I got everything running good, but with only 1 stick of RAM in. I tried the second and third slots with the 2nd stick but then it would crash or freeze. So I thought the RAM was bad.

Today I bought a new stick and tried it. I went afk for 10 minutes and came back the PC had restarted. Then a short time later froze again.

Now I am trying the original 2nd stick of RAM in the fourth slot just to see what happens.

I would guess that I need to get a replacement for this mobo more than likely?

[Minions]

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen a mobo with bad slot(s) for ram. Its one of the rarer occurrences but it does happen.

[Aja]

Well it didn't take long to freeze that time. Seems the only way it runs is with 1 stick of RAM.

[xopher]

Second Memslot is busted.

New mobo ahoy.

Also good job at immediately blaming Windows 7.

[Aja]

Haha, yeah I didn't really think I would get a bad mobo. Got Windows 7 installed when the new mobo was so =/

Well thanks for the input from everyone.