Sorry for the some what vague title, but I've had all sorts of different errors...
I'm running Win XP Pro on an athlon xp2200, 1gb Ram (2x512mb), gigabyte GA-7AXP, 80Gb ibm deskstar (3 partitions, one for windows, one windows backup, and one for user data) and 160Gb Samsung Spinpoin P (one partition all user data). Home built.
I'll start from the beginning, last night i was encoding some cds to mp3, when the blue screen of death appeared, it was all a bit quick and didn't have time to read the screen properly, but it had the old dumping to physical memory message in it. Decided to give the PC a break, there was a bit of a funny smell (not good) so i opened the PC to let it cool down a bit and went to bed.
Come morning, i switch the PC back on, it gets into windows xp, but instantly the blue screen appears, i didn't have time to write what it said but it was along the lines of ntfs.sys corrupt, and began dumping to physical memory. Tried reboot again but this time it failed to get into win xp, blue screen flashed up before it started to reboot again. This time it crashed in after detecting drives.
Thought i'd try a memory check so stuck memtest floppy in the a-drive, but alas i got a bios checksum error. I then did a bit of research on the ntfs.sys error (on a different computer), and found the suggestion to boot from win xp CD, and use recovery console to replace the ntfs.sys file with a new one. The PC crashed during 'setup inspecting your system'.
I then left the computer for a half hour, when i came back i switched it on again and the computer almost got into windows, in got to the blue bar bit, but then the blue screen of death came back with the IRQ_not_less_than... message.
I have tried taking individual memory sticks out but this does nothing to help, the computer was behaving itself reasonably well before this. I'm a bit stuck now, i've considered replacing the cmos battery but i don't think this will help.
Any opinions as to what the problem is and how to fix it, i don't have much time because my final thesis for my degree is due in a couple of weeks, and i have a lot of videoand daya from research on the PC. If you think i need a new motherboard or something please say, i'd rather get the thing sorted asap, so don't hold back!
HELP!
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