My PC Took a big steamy pile on the floor

[JBFord4x4]

Hey. Just in time for IV to release, my PC takes a big steamy one on my floor. Upon restarting, my screen would load everything then go insane and flash pink at me and then show a frozen cracked desktop image. I found out yesterday it was the drivers failing. So i went into safe mode and did it all. New to me today I find out it wasn't a one time thing. It's happening everytime I restart. So I say ok, no big deal, i'll go back into safe mode and uninstall the driver again, but this time install the old one. Well Safe mode doesnt wanna work this time! Fails to run all of the partitions and does nothing. After a few tries, i leave it alone for an hour. Go back, try it again, nada! Leave it alone for a half an hour, go back, corrupt hal.dll! Yay! . Run a windows boot disc, try to fix it, nothing.

 

So now it is either time to reformat, or rebuild. I have several GOOD Pc parts. A good power source, a good hard drive, a good video card, decent ram, but a sh*tty CPU, a sh*tty mobo.

 

What I am looking for is a barebones that doesn't include a power supply. I would be purchasing a Kentfield Q6600 and the essentials for the CPU. I'm handicapped when it comes to installing a mobo, so if anyone can teach me maybe I can go the route of buying a case and installing a mobo, then all the rest.

 

Please help me. I'd love to play IV again before christmas .

 

 

Just found these 2 good deals.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...330941&CatId=31

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...282930&CatId=31

 

Is the Q6600 better than the Q6700?

Edited December 5, 2008 by JBFord4x4

[Sycuss]

get a q9 series if u can if u cant afford a q9series get a e9series not the Q6600 this GAME LIKES GHZ power.... and more of it.

[Wolf68k]

Sounds like your HDD wasn't parked and it damaged the platters.

Try this for grins, get a LiveCD OS of something, Knoppix is a good choice, and boot from that.

You can also download Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and boot from that and use the tools there to see if it's a HDD issue or memory or something else.

[Slamman]

Well, considering you had a new HDD, failure should go beyond the 5 years some speculate, I have one that boots but always runs Scandisk due to bad sectors it freezes up on, the only recourse is to skip the screens each time, but the 4GB drive still works, using Windows 98 only. If you have access via SAFE, save the needed files off to USB if that works or an extra drive formatted with XP or Vista and daisychain them, then move important files to the backup drives that work. Always reformat when all seems lost, but by any means try and salvage before wiping a drive, that's what I do!!

 

Don't dispair when reformat is all that may be needed, using a restore disc, you can get the main programs back if you didn't modify the original drive. Also save important updated installers as I said before, these take time to download and you can archive them on flash memory so you just need only run them again directly without looking online for them! I do this as well. In fact, I often do the same program installs on each drive I use so they are there when I need them.