Why does my pc crashes when try to startup

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cjfacey Posts 2 Registration date Saturday 8 December 2012 Status Member Last seen 20 January 2013 - 8 Dec 2012 à 01:56
cjfacey Posts 2 Registration date Saturday 8 December 2012 Status Member Last seen 20 January 2013 - 20 Jan 2013 à 00:43
Hello, I have a dell Inspiron 8500, it's very old but use to work fairly well but yesterday i woke up and turn it on as usual, it loaded the windows logo the crash to a blue screen, i restart the same thing happen, i tried last known good config. it just restart. i got sick of it so i tried formatting and it's the same, the i tried a newer version of windows (SP3) still doesn't change anything, please can anybody help me out here?



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YC36 Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday 8 January 2013 Status Member Last seen 8 January 2013
8 Jan 2013 à 11:26
Hi there, well from my personal experience with blue screen, my motherboard had blown, so maybe your motherboard has given in. But this is just what i have experienced, yours might be the same or something else.
cjfacey Posts 2 Registration date Saturday 8 December 2012 Status Member Last seen 20 January 2013
20 Jan 2013 à 00:43
actually i found out that my graphic card as gone bad. Thanks though.