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That's a brave outlook on life. I generally feel the opposite. The PC is replaceable, even perishable(they're worthless so fast), but my files are not. If a part goes bad, there's always a dozen to choose from at Newegg. If I loose years worth of screenshots and such, there's no getting them back. After reading your story, maybe I should get one of those external hard drives and start backing things up more regularly.

I bought an external harddrive specifically to copy and paste WoW to and from because I reformat so many times. That and my music. That's all I ever really keep backed up.

blue screen.. I had that thing when I played Assassin's Creed. I think its a problem with your CPU. My whole computer was pretty strong then except my CPU. I had the same problem but it happend for me only once.

I had a similar occurrence with my pc many months back. The warranty had just ran out. I was mortified,but I called the geek squad guys and they came to my house and managed to fix it. It cost a good bit about 2-300 dollars. I'd suggest having someone take a look at your pc if you're knowledgeable about these things you can probably find someone to do it for a much more reasonable price.

Could be a over heating problem. Having vista doesn't help either.

Bleh, that sucks, I hate it when that happens...

I always hook up at least one extra HDD on RAID or as a slave drive when I build a new computer. Like instead of making a new folder on the desktop for music, I make the new folder in the U: Drive (lol, umbreon fan?) and then place a shortcut to that file on the desktop. That way, if the computer kicks the bucket you can just nuke it without the worry of losing anything important. You can just unplug the second hard drive before rolling back via Systems Restore, and you shouldn't lose anything that you may have installed or downloaded into that drive. X3

I mean when you have your WoW UI configured all nicely, tons of music, loads of art-stuffs and files that you've carried from computer-to-computer for the last 12 years, it becomes increasingly difficult and inconvenient to have to replace it all! You probably did the best you could do right now, but if you notice stuff like this happening frequently it's always good to take steps early to lessen the potential impacts later on. xD

If you can start it at all you could try running a virus scan in safemode. When I got a screen like that it turned out my MacAfee which I had uninstalled properly according to MacAfee.... Had left a bunch of driver's on my system that clashed with my new anti virus software and had to be removed. Good luck with it, I hope things get better.

Er... Did it say couldn't find boot driver or boot drive? If it's "driver" then it's software, if it's "drive" without an s then it's going to be your C: drive going funny. You'll want to do a disk check, just in case. In Windows Explorer, right click on the C: drive and pick properties. Click the "Tools" tab and click "Check Now" in the section labeled "Error checking". On the little window that pops up, check "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". It will require that you reboot and will perform the scan when it's starting back up. It should look like this:



Alternatively, if you suspect the memory(are you not supposed to have 2GB of ram?) you can check with Memtest 86+. Just burn it to a CD, put it in the drive and let the PC start up from the disk. It will loop through eight different memory tests, reporting any problems or giving you good a good "Pass" for every time it can complete the eight tests without issue. It loops continuously, so if you get a good pass or two, just remove the CD and reboot.

well now it wont even load past the windows screen.....all i get is a black screen

also iv noticed whenever it freezes that something sounds like the fan restarting and something making a sorta buzz/click at least four or so times right before a freeze.

Have you checked to make sure the fans are moving properly and are not seizing up ?

yep opened it up to dust it as soon as i got home. all fans spin and work normally.
its also started doing disk checks whenever i start it. then i get a black screen after the vista logo then i have to shut the computer off by holding the power button.

im really starting to think my hard drive is dying. iv had the computer for 3 years but its much older than that and before i got it my mom used to always leave it running at night and when she wasnt on it.....which cant have been good for it.

The click of death! Ten to one says you've got yourself a dead hard drive.

They're just about giving hard drives away these days though. Newegg has a grand selection of Seagates. The current price leader is the 250GB drive for $44.99 - $10 promo code(till Jan 31st) and with free shipping leaves you with a grand total of $34.99.

yea if it is indeed my hard drive failing then it would explain why windows seems to be failing too....OS are stored in the hard drive right?

Yeah, afraid so.