Hi all,
Newbie here, but a fair bit of pc experience…
Got a real head scratcher though…
My bro’s pc recently wind fubar. I did a windows reinstall (XP Home), all went ok, then shut it down. restarted it and got error loading operating system message.
Have since reformatted drive in my pc, but when trying to install on his pc, always get the same problem:
During windows setup, after the file copy, “Windows is starting up” message appears, then pc blue screens with one of two messages
1: driver IRQL not less than or equal to
2: bad pool header
again reformatted HDD on my pc, and this time got as far as the windows setup, but it stopped saying “could not load mouseclass.sys” then died again.
Have tried different HDD, taken both ram sticks out and tried them one at a time, there are no bios beeps at POST (bar the standad single beep)!! Im confused!!!
A mate suggested mobo and o CPU, but surely it would not copy the file from dvd drive to HDD if CPU or mobo were faulty? And woulndt there be a POST beep code?
Only thing abnomal i noticed was Duron was running at 51 degrees, on a PC chips mobo, surely that cant be right? my XP2600+ only runs at 42 degrees afte hours under full load!!
Any advice much appeciated, cos my mums prat of a boyfreind reckons I have to cough for a new mobo/cpu (an “expert” in his work told him they wee dead)
Cheers
Phil