Nothing wants to install

[LovesLaus]

HI, 

 

i have a computer that i have been trying to get back up and running and i havent found out what is wrong yet.

it is a p4 that my parents is running, and it just wont start now.

w7 refuses to start up, it just blue screen every time now. so i tried to use the recovery which also wont start up. so then i took out my w7 usb to do the recovery from there. but that does not work either. i will get past the windows loading program and then i will just restart itself. so i then tried the cd which also the same problem. tried both 32 and 64 bits. 

i then looked around for the win xp thinking that has to work, but that also came with a problem as well. it loads past the loading screen. but i do not get the option for installing windows. so that was also a bust. so then i downloaded Ubuntu x 64 and 32 which also does not work as well. 

 

so not i  have no idea what i should do any more. 

 

everything seems to be working well. 

[Godlygamer23]

You have hardware failing. May be the RAM, or something on the motherboard.

[LovesLaus]

i check all that. i changed out the ram. 

[Godlygamer23]

And you checked the motherboard? How did you do it?

[swifty7]

is the psu and video card in good working order???

 

also how's the health of the hdd?

[LovesLaus]

well everything loads up i can get into the bios and all that. yea psu good. vid changed it out as well nothing new happened

[Godlygamer23]

You have any old hard drives laying around?

[LovesLaus]

yup, that was what i was going to try out next.

 

during 1 of those installs, on the screen said something about i686 only available need a 32 or 64 cpu.

[Godlygamer23]

Okay. You have s 32 bit CPU so...not sure what's going on there.

[LovesLaus]

on the Ubuntu install is hangs on: kernal panic -  not syncing attempting to kill init . . .... "

[LovesLaus]

yea thats what i was confused about. that made me think that the cpu is bad. but in the bios it seem the cpu, and its running just fine for the temps and volts.

[Godlygamer23]

If you can get another hard drive, try that first.

[LovesLaus]

yup i am trying to now with new hard drive and Ubuntu 32 

[Godlygamer23]

Okay.

[HEXiT]

check the caps on the motherboard. are they slightly swollen or leaking?

as for the constant bsods and fresh installs.sounds like the hdd is borked.

also do you know what the error numbers were on the bsod...

we will ned the 0x0000000 error number and error text.

[LovesLaus]

it got to the ubuntu screen where the 1st dot is in purple and the others in white. it been kind just hanging there

[Godlygamer23]

Hardware is failing. Something on the motherboard. If you're using a functional hard drive now, then it's something around the motherboard.

[LovesLaus]

the code i dont remember right now. as for the caps they all look good, just a little dusty a can of air changed all that. 

[LovesLaus]

hmm ok, it is like 10 years old

[Godlygamer23]

It's time for a computer upgrade anyways.

[LovesLaus]

haha i would agree. probably just with A8 6500, should last another 10 years.

[HEXiT]

windows 7 wont work on it at all. the hardware doesnt support the high precision events timer that a lot of the new windows stuff needs to function. as its hardware based it cant be emulated properly so any system that trys to run it without the supporting hardware will just bsod constantly.

the only o.s you will get to work are the older 1s between xp and win 95.

you will first need to clear out the hdd and get it back to raw. because windows 7 uses a slightly different MBR (master boot record) to that of xp so if you try and install xp on an hdd that had win7 on it you will get a failed boot.

 

so remove all partitions and boot of an xp disk not a usb. when your give the option create a new master partition table with only a single  primary partition. format it(quick will do) and install. 

 

if all goes well windows should start up straight away... but be away windows xp is eol so you are gonnna run out of security updates sooner rather than later.

when this happens you dont ever want to use that pc to online bank or do anything requiring secure access.

[Godlygamer23]

windows 7 wont work on it at all. the hardware doesnt support the high precision events timer that a lot of the new windows stuff needs to function. as its hardware based it cant be emulated properly so any system that trys to run it without the supporting hardware will just bsod constantly.

According to him, it worked before.

[LovesLaus]

yup this computer was able to run w7 for around 2 years before this crazy thing happened.