Need some serious help!

Alright this computer has been driving me crazy. My problem is my computer kept restarting so I eventually gave up and tried to just reformat and restore it. While im trying to restore it gets about 80% done and either crashes or blue screens. It was originally crashing at around 50% but i took out the new NIC card and it started getting a little further.

Its a Emachine T2865, AMD 2800, 512 RAM, 160 HD.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Ehh, not my best subject. I'll bump it for ya.

haha thanks man

Sounds like some sort of hardware problem. You could try taking out all but the essentials and see if that helps, and if it does, put things back one at a time.

Except for the NIC card which i removed nothing else has been added

Before i decided to restore i got a few errors involving the computer not being able to read or write a certain sector.

Could it possibly be a RAM problem?

Hey thanks for everyones help. Pulled the RAM out dusted it off and reseated it, worked liked a charm... Thanks again.

I was gonna suggest putting peanut butter on it.

MMM Peanut butter & RAM sandwhich...

D'OH now I am hungry

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Originally posted by SouthPaw

I was gonna suggest putting peanut butter on it.

Fixes everything, ya know!

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Originally posted by ObsoleteRealism

MMM Peanut butter & RAM sandwhich...

D'OH now I am hungry

PB and Ram, Nothing like it

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Originally posted by flashbourne

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MMM Peanut butter & RAM sandwhich...

D'OH now I am hungry

PB and Ram, Nothing like it
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I had a comp that did that a few years ago. There was a scratch on the hard drive.

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Originally posted by ObsoleteRealism

MMM Peanut butter & RAM sandwhich...

D'OH now I am hungry

RAM, the best thing to happen to peanut butter since sliced bread

Might be a heat problem.
Some viruses are also known to cause this kind of trouble!

I had the same problem on a Sony. It was not the hardware it was because I deleted all of the "free" shit like yahoo messenger ect ect and then the SQL databank, (used by sony's media server) would tell the computer to shut down. it was very weird.