Hey guys, long time no see, need your help agian.
Monday night my media machine started freezing in the middle of the playback of a avi file. One time it actually flashed a blue screen and restarted. Since then the problem has just gotten worse. I tried to format my C drive this morning and reinstall windows, just to see if that would help and it froze right in the middle of the format. Everytime I restart and try to do something it freezes faster and faster. One time on post, it gave me an error saying there was something wrong with the power setup and to enter setup and fix it. It froze right after and I couldn't get into setup. If I shut it off for an hour or so I can do some stuff agian but the more I try to use it or do anything the quicker is freezes. At first when it was just freezing in Windows I thought it was a hard drive problem, since it is one I have been using for awhile, but now it's freezing on post. I'm thinking a memory problem but it's somewhat new, crucial memory. If it was really a power problem wouldn't it shut off? Always has in my experience. All of the parts expect for the primary hard drive and sound card are pretty new (like fall last year).
I don't have any spare parts to troubleshoot with so I was hoping maybe some of you guys had some ideas.