Major computer problems(many, baffled...)

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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Celeron 700MHz
64M RAM(upgraded to 256)
20G HD
Onboard video and audio

OK, my grandparent's computer is kind of old. It came with Windows ME on it, and since they've gotten lots of viruses and spyware. Now that I'm out for the summer, I basically stole their machine and loaded XP on it. It ran ok(still had 64M) but I told them they really should upgrade the RAM.

The next day, they called me and said it was taking about 6 minutes to load! OK, it wasn't nearly this bad before! So I run over there with the RAM from my tester system, and the computer ran like a whole new computer. We used it all yesterday, and it chugged along very nicely.

Today, I get a call and they tell me after POST, they get "NTLDR not found" What the hell... I'm going to run windows repair and see if that fixes it, but honestly, what's going on here!?

I loaded XP Pro SP2, AVG Free, and told them to stick with Firefox. I really don't think it'd be viruses. They've obviously had the machine for a while and it's never given them problems like this.

My first thought was the HD could be dying, but they never had problems until I reloaded Windows... I've got a replacement should I need to, but ugh :mad:
 
Here's the deal. I'm over at their house now using their computer. I tried to boot it normally after the "Press any key to boot" option from my disk came up(odd, but sometimes it works) and it loaded windows half way before messing up. I tried again in safe mode and it worked great. I ran System Restore, and now it works... I'm still totally baffled, but whatever. JUST DON'T DIE!
 
Desktop: Celeron-A 333Mhz, 384MB RAM, 128MB GeForce MX4000, 40GB Maxtor DM+8

that system runs xp flawlessly (well i havent had any yet)
 
Well, I'm back home now, but I turned it off and back on 3 times while I was there and it never messed up again. Fingers crossed it's fixed for good!
 
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