I decided to make this computer, but for insurance I hired somebody to intall it all. It has responded badly since day 1. The last time I got it back it worked for a week, then yesterday System Mechanic called for a system scan, and when it rebooted all it would get was the black screen, mothboard diagnosis, and then the blue screen, from which it refused to budge.
I reseated he memory and disconnected eveything to test the motherboard and still it wouldn't go past the blue screen. So I ran System Mechanic's drive scrubber, then the 6 start up disks from Microsoft, and the tried to installed the windows XP home CD. It gave me log in choices, none of which worked of course because I had scrubbed it. But there I am now, with the XP Home CD in the Drive , whose blue light is on, but when I boot up it won't load the CD.
Do I have a bad hard drive or a bad motherboard?
Sandy
