Story of a Dying Computer: Part 1

A mix of old and new, broken by time

Part replaced within the last 3 months, including cpu/motherboard/memory

This was assuming either the mobo or cpu was dead

It was freezing randomly, more often

Then no video and would not post on startup, also mobo led counter stopped working

After these were replaced (just parts, didn't clean and reinstall OS), it worked fine again for a bit

Have not replaced hard drive, power supply, fans, or dvd drive since original build over 5 years ago

Initially I noticed viruses had infected it

These were caught and diffused but they left a trail behind them

Random names that could not be identified, installed as services/drivers

Remaining in the registry and logged as errors (failing to run on startup)

The system would reboot at the same time daily apparently, and also at random times

I noticed the daily reboot was during the virus scan

The blue screen at this time said 'kernel_stack_inpage_error'

The system even viewer had the details for the error with a code for 'status_no_such_device' (00000077: c000000e), leading me to wonder if the hard drive was finally failing

The event viewer also showed other warnings (apparently for the dvd drive):

'error detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation'

and 'system failed to flush data to transaction log, corruption may occur'

Running chkdsk tried to resolve some issues

'repairing usn journal file record segment' and 'replaced bad clusters in file'

But this did not fix the problem, and the system would shutdown during a virus scan

For a few more days, it continued to unexpectedly restart (with an error in the system log) or shut down (without any logged error)

Then it finally shuts off and won't turn back on (no post, no fans, nothing), causing me to wonder if the power supply has finally failed

No obvious power going to the mobo (leds)

To be continued...