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iameatingjam

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Sorry if this is the wrong section, I was not sure which one to put it in.

I have an asus machine with 2GB ram, 256mb radeon 3450HD, american megatrends mobo and intel duel core 1.8 cpu.

My system froze a couple days ago and rebooted to find that the 250GB HDD sata wont spin up. I eventually gave up on the drive 0.even though it contains all my personal files as I have another 2GB sata with windows 7. I've tried to boot off this drive many times as well either freezing on splash screen or get a bsod. Windows 7 repair was no use for both drives. Safe mode will not boot on either drive.

My windows 7 install disk also freezes on the loading screen. I'm got getting desperate and did a fresh install of windows xp on a separate SCSI drive. It also gets bsod. The most success I've had was getting windows xp to run on safe mode with networking, but IE wont even launch.

I've tried burning and booting a linux mint live CD from two different dvd drives and it also freezes right after the splash screen saying some kind of media error.

I have tried removing both sticks of ram and rebooting the bios, nothing will work... I even tried an old power supply, though I'm sure if it was a power problem the old piece of crap wouldn't have helped.

I'm fresh out of ideas, can somebody please help. My mom just spent $400 on this computer for me a couple months back.
 
If its under warranty, since its only a few months old it should be, send it in to get repaired. Sounds like there is something wrong with the mobo.
 
bought second hand unfortunately
plus I've already opened the case and f'd with it trying to fix it, so it would be void if it was under warranty.
 
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I would try going through the BIOS and disabling things that start when you boot up your computer.

Go into BIOS and disable things like Onboard Audio, Onboard LAN, and Onboard 1394.

If you know your hard drive is bad, set the CD drive as the first boot option and insert your Linux Mint CD.

Save and Exit BIOS.

If the computer boots up ok to the Linux Live CD, then start enabling those settings that you've disabled in the BIOS. When you enable one of those devices, save and exit.

If you discover that when one of those is enabled, the computer will not boot properly, then you may have a problem with the motherboard. In some cases you can leave one of these devices disabled and just run the computer without it if it is causing you problems.
 
It sounds like you have a hardware error of some sort.

When installing (particularly Windows), be sure to remove any external USB devices not necessary. Can't tell you how many times I've run into a brick wall because I had a peripheral plugged in (even a wireless mouse transceiver can cause heartache).
 
Have you altered BIOS settings trying to overclock or anything like that? If so, see if your BIOS has a setting for safe defaults and use that.

Did you ever remove the heatsink and CPU? If so, did you clean old thermal paste and apply new before reassembling?
 
If you've tried with 1 dimm of ram only (each stick individually, and in each slot), and psu isnt the problem youre likely looking at a new motherboard.

Make sure the CPU cooler is clean, and the fan is spinning - heat could cause these problems.
 
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