Three weeks ago my computer crashed. This problem was similar to what happened to my PC six months ago. Back then I was able to fix it by wiggling the hard drive socket—but doing the same fix this time didn’t work out. In fact when I turned on the PC, it booted, showed the logon screen, and when I clicked a program it crashed and rebooted. And this process just repeated over and over—sometimes the logon screen would appear momentarily and the PC would reboot itself.
I can’t pin down the usual suspects—malwares, spywares, and viruses—since I can’t open any program let alone my anti-virus program avast! I tried to repair Windows XP which went on successfully and I was able to open my browser but not for long; the symptoms came back even when running XP in Safe Mode.
Desperate for a solution, I searched in the Internet (from a different PC of course) and found the pages from Microsoft and Ask Leo! very helpful.
I reseated the memory modules and other wire connectors inside the computer case to make sure a loose connection is not causing the problem. Indeed it is not—when I turned on the computer, it refused to start and keeps on rebooting.
With a suggestion from a technician, I installed a video card (my PC uses the built-in video adapter in the motherboard). With a new video card, my PC is now working fine.
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