My PC keeps crashing

[Angrist]

Hm.... I'd have to find them. At the moment I don't know what to look for in my physical machine... I'll try to find out, thanks.

[magus113]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Hm.... I'd have to find them. At the moment I don't know what to look for in my physical machine... I'll try to find out, thanks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148346

RAM looks like that, it's usually lined up in pairs next to the heatsink and fan that covers the CPU. Just a heads up

[Angrist]

I went to the store. The guy seemed very pessimistic about the whole thing.

He advised me to reinstall Windows and see if the problem persists. I guess I'll try that after I've tried some other, smaller things.
Like I changed my firewall settings a few weeks ago, now I discovered Windows hasn't been able to update. So I'm going to change that and see if it makes a difference.
The firewall also blocks a lot of other stuff, I wonder if it is to blame...

[Angrist]

Ok, now I'm making backups. I'm pretty scared: this afternoon it took 2 hours before it even sent a signal to the monitor.
I tried unplugging all my hardware, even the internal things.
Oh, I also tried removing 2 of my 4 RAMs, but that didn't work at all.
In the end I started to suspect the HDD. It makes funny noises... So hence the backups.

[Angrist]

I wasn't able to start my PC for a whole day. The motherboard made weird beeping noises when I tried to.
Today I got the tip to look up the motherboard and what the noises mean. My brother did that for me.
What fixed my problem was...... unplugging my keyboard. Apparently it was blocking the motherboard from working. So now I'm using a USB keyboard that I had lying around.

I hope that was the root of the problem, but I fear I'm not done with this yet...

[Angrist]

Bump!

First of all: last year the keyboard was the problem. I replaced it with a USB one and I had no problems since.

That is until now. I get these random crashes again. No crash dump files are created, so WhoCrashed can't tell me anything.
Just like last year, the crashes occur in the first 10 minutes after booting up. Once I get past that, my PC runs fine and I can do anything I like.

10 minutes ago I noticed AVG (anti virus) wasn't running. I started it manually... and immediately my PC crashed. So now I'm suspecting that. I'll try a re-install.

[Angrist]

This might be a problem:

My "Factory Image" (recovery partition D:\) is full. It's 8GB big and there's only 32MB left.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Angrist

This might be a problem:

My "Factory Image" (recovery partition D:\) is full. It's 8GB big and there's only 32MB left.

The factory image partition is supposed to be full/almost full. It's only meant to be used if you want to restore to factory defaults.

Your concern is like getting a photo developed, then being worried that there's not enough white border around it left for the photo to grow into.

Ok not so great analogy.

[Angrist]

Ok, so no worries there then.

Anyway, my PC is still a mess. I'm making backups of my pictures, just to be sure.