that warning is standard on any install of windows when attempting a fixmbr

"saying something about memory dump I believe"

the most important part of troubleshooting you problem was all the numbers and error message on the bsod ,not the memory dump.
you harddrive may...

whatdid you use to blow it out ! a high pressure hose -lol

you shut it down first correct!
shut it down ,remove power plug ,remove and reseat ram chips

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I think that was the case with older computer not so much so with the newer ones as for most the unboard is disable when the addon card is installed ,not sure totally as most of the computers i work...

sorry i missed it in your first post ,you smarter than me.good luck with your agp card

either that or something happened to the agp card ,go to add remove program and uninstall any thing[software] agp card related if there ,use a program called ccleaner to ceanup regirtry[and clean...

you could have a bad harddrive ,go to hdd the manufacturers web site and get a hdd utility and burn it to disk and boot to it and do the full scan

never mad a good connection the last time ,i use a white [lead pencil] eraser to clean ram connections

vista drivers here ,only burner drivers listed for xp,that usually means that the drivers are in the winxp install...

it possible that your original dying psu, caused motherboard damage !

no need to bumb! you need to try a better psu first ,
also just for shits and whistles and not to confuse, its a ATX power supply with a P4 plug ,AT power supplies go way back to the 486 and early...

you dont mention the monitor being used and how its connected dvi oe maybe a dvi to vga adapter perhaps

glad you said it first !
so i guess you didn't smartly rename the original to shell32.dll.old ,so you could just rename it back , in case something like this happened ,
my suggestion to you would...

computer boots 1 of10 tries ,what possibly could a bios flash do for it ,

good idea im sure ,but there was no mention of looking to recover data ,just swapping drives .

also just like to say it might work as i suggested but if you bsod is caused by bad ram there would...

because they are the same you should be able to it ,i do it with 2 older Toshiba's that are the same

not sure reall ,the shorting out is from way back in my memorey i could be mixing it with something else ,al li know is everytime i have a psu that dosn't boot the computer all the way into window...

you have been misinformed, .if my psu testes doesn't light up the .5v the psu turn on and lightup board lights and spin hdd, ect but thats it ,!!
I fix the problem when i add a new psu to the...

power supply's have been know to go bad really quick ,even really good ones .I have had it happen to me numerous time with cheap one ,maybe you got a bad one !!

other poster was just making a suggestion ,no need to bite the hand that feeds you ,I also would say no need to have all those browsers ,you are only looking for problems ,like the ones that come...

new tower ,would be my way to go if i were in your shoes. look at these full tower or barebones ,just add your hdd and cdrom .great prices ...

is this an older P4 computer if so it could be a plug for the P4 ,earlier ones had them i think ,before the switch to the square 4 pin one ,the problem sounds like the psu,its putting out a little...

Give this a try i think its your problem.
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Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Reasons for...

did you go into the bios to set the dvd rom as the first boot device ,or is it a external usb dvd rom device .

i think you missed the point on that one, poster said he cant get it to boot from the dvd drive !!! there for cant get it to boot to the Vista dvd disk .not a Sata driver problem yet!!!

the battery most likely is not on the board itself , but plugged in via a small white 3 wire plug [like a small fan plug],the laptops i have the bios batters is rapped in yellow/red plastic and are...

to funny the second worse computer company ,Gateway ,take over the leading worse computer company ,eMachines', lol and people expect it to be better!

your welcome!

cant answer your questions because i have no idea what motherboard or type of ram is in the one you have now.yes you will get a book with the motherboard if you buy it new.you may or may not have to...

giving that its a basic e-machine, i'm sure there are many boards more reliable ,

sounds louder ,did you open the case to see if any or all fans are working ,also not full of dust ,could be a heating problem ,could also just be a bad power supply ,and bad power supplies lead to...

is that a windows password/username or the Bios password ,can you get to the windows login screen,if yes ,then boot computer while hitting the f8 key to go to safe mode ,choose administrator acct,...

Ok,so you have new ddr2 ram ,and old ddr2 ram and you tried all together ,just checking here ,you do know that the green ram slots are for ddr3 ram ,and that you cant run ddr2 and ddr3 rame together...

so did they install it for you or did you install it your self.!!!

it sure could ,


really ,you sure have a different opinion of ram than i do,ram memory has no info in it until computer is up and running ,its wiped clean every time you shut down computer ,so...

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the data ? can't be answered until you remove harddrive and install in second computer as a slave of connect with usb /ide/sata device.
also you could have someone check it out and advice how to...

in his first post he says he's using onboard video!!!