Hello, I hope someone can help me with this problem that is driving me crazy and preventing me from work. I had to change my system hard drive due to hardware damage. So I got a new hard drive and installed windows 10 and all my programs. Rigth away my pc started to shut down by itself randomly, which it didn´t do before I changed the system drive. This got worse and now happens every 30 minutes or so. I suspected it was a virus or malware so I cleaned y system using malware bytes and found a few trojans and stuff. I re started and for a few hours everything was ok but then it started to shut down again. Even worse, I ran hdd regenerator and discovered that now I had damaged sectors on my drive due to the constant shut downs. The curious thing is that after many hours in DOS mode I haven´t got any shut downs. It only happens in windows. Please help me, I can´t work like this and I have pending things to do.
Thank you.
I had a machine like that. I damaged one of the connections on the motherboard and the machine was super unstable until I took it apart, found the damage, and corrected it. It’s been running perfectly ever since.
I … found a few trojans and stuff.
On a new drive? Where did you get Windows 10 from? Does everything work OK before you install “all my programs?”
Koz
The curious thing is that after many hours in DOS mode I haven´t got any shut downs.
On a completely wild guess, you have a memory issue in High Memory. DOS has no idea how to use High Memory.
I had a Memory Checker which would load and run from a floppy. So the first tiny bit of memory wouldn’t get checked (I think they had a way around that). It would cycle through all the standard memory tests: Reverse Checkerboard, Running Dog, Flash Line, etc. It would repeat if I wanted it to. Run it all night. It should do that with no/zero errors.
“The checker halted on a memory error in Bank 3, Side B, Element 2 at 3 hours and 55 minutes.”
Koz
After you have repaired any disk problems using the basic error checking tool available from windows explorer disk properties tools you should open a command prompt as administrator and run > sfc /scannow to verify and if necessary correct all the windows system files. Of course if there is an underlying hardware issue this must be corrected first.