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Bad Motherboard?

Asked by vcand in General Computer Systems

Tags: bad, motherboard, symptoms

Hello all,

This is my problem.  I am working on my mothers computer.  She has been reporting problems for the last few days that she'd be working and then around her mouse cursor there would be pixelation and then it would lock up.  I went over to check it out and it started blue screening once in windows then it progressed to blue screening during boot.  I went to reinstall windows and right when it gets to "Starting Windows" (in the installation after loading all drivers and copying files) it blue screens.  I've had a variety of error messages during blue screen such as IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN and numbered combinations etc.  SO I removed all cards and I've tried several different memory sticks that are known good in there.  Still the same various BSOD's.  I ran Doctor Memory from a disk which makes one loop and tells me PASS on everything then freezes, this occurs on all the memory even the known good ones.  The power supply is new and I'm about to test the hard drive right now, I was just wondering if this mess are symptoms of a bad motherboard.  The board is 1-2 years old.  My thoughts are that either the memory sockets are in a state of malfunction (which may be why the memory test program freezes) or the entire board is on the way out as all hardware has been verified good.  If it is a bad mobo, does anyone think it will take the CPU or the memory down with it?

Here are the specs.

MB: ECS K7VMM
CPU: Athlon 1700
Memory: Various sticks of 256
OS: Windows XP

Thanks everyone for you time.
 
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