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<blockquote data-quote="tpmeredith" data-source="post: 7340903" data-attributes="member: 625173">Well like I was saying, most blue screens nowadays on OEM computers are &quot;usually&quot; results of hardware failures, as software has become fairly stable in recent years.I&#039;d run a hard drive scan that scans sector by sector, if it came with vista on it there&#039;s a 50/50 chance it has a hard drive diagnostic utility built into the bios or boot menu, go to boot menu on boot (usually f12) and see if there&#039;s an option for it, if not try going to bios (usually called setup, can be f2, f8 or del usually) and see if there&#039;s an option there, don&#039;t change anything in setupJust saying, i&#039;d hate for you to do all this **** then it just blue screen when you give it to your cousin because it ran into the same bad sector again =PYou may be able to &quot;Fix&quot; a blue screen, but you&#039;re only fixing the symptom, not the cause(Yes I know, you can get a blue screen from driver&#039;s or viruses, but OEM computers don&#039;t typically run into the same driver problems that custom builds do nowadays, and it&#039;s always good to rule out hardware..)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tpmeredith, post: 7340903, member: 625173"] Well like I was saying, most blue screens nowadays on OEM computers are "usually" results of hardware failures, as software has become fairly stable in recent years. I'd run a hard drive scan that scans sector by sector, if it came with vista on it there's a 50/50 chance it has a hard drive diagnostic utility built into the bios or boot menu, go to boot menu on boot (usually f12) and see if there's an option for it, if not try going to bios (usually called setup, can be f2, f8 or del usually) and see if there's an option there, don't change anything in setup Just saying, i'd hate for you to do all this **** then it just blue screen when you give it to your cousin because it ran into the same bad sector again =P You may be able to "Fix" a blue screen, but you're only fixing the symptom, not the cause (Yes I know, you can get a blue screen from driver's or viruses, but OEM computers don't typically run into the same driver problems that custom builds do nowadays, and it's always good to rule out hardware..) [/QUOTE]

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