--It started with a restart when I loaded my comp to the welcome screen. The "found new hardware" screen popped up, but there was no hardware that was new, lol. It just kept doing it over and over, sometimes it would get to welcome screen, sometimes not.
I did system recovery 3 times. I start it in safe mode, and its fine, but i dont know what to look for. I blew some dust out of it, but it looks like there may be a little caking right underneath the fan blades. Although the fan is running and it feels cool blowing out.
The only thing i did recently was install a webcamera, and it did fine and was using it for over a week. anything else on my comp has been there since purchase basically. But wouldnt doing a system restore reset everything??
I would love any help on this. I did look for this topic, but there were so many things i wasnt sure really related to me.
Oh, I also did the "uncheck" of the automatic restart. When I did this it went to a blue screen and it gave me a tech number thing:
0x00007
(0xc0000006 0x80563F43 0xA97D9C78 0xA97D9974
???
Let me know if you need any other info:
Gateway 817GM
Windows XP
Intel Pentium 4 530 Processor with HT
200 GB Sata HD
512 MB DDR Dual Channel Memory
Thanks,
Cheri