Hi Fred,
Hoping you can provide some more advice as this PC's issues are beating me!
After i completed the continuous memory test in DOS with 100 passes, only the initial 1 was showing the error. So i went ahead and did every other test that had to do with memory, both in DOS and Win. No errors were found. I ran further tests in Win including tests with the serial and parallel testers installed. Still no errors found.
However as i removed the serial tester, the PC rebooted. Now i'm sure i did this before and the system rebooted too but after running the serial test in both DOS and Win nothing came up in error. So, testing it again to see if the system will reboot after attaching and removing the serial tester, proves... nothing! Must have been a coincidence initially.
To add to this, when the system rebooted, it froze at the POST screen, not detecting the HDDs. Soft resetting the PC causes a black screen with no POST. Cold restart (disconnecting the power for 5 sec) eventually gets the system booting again.
I've checked the error codes that show up in the event viewer and i get one that shows:
Error code 10000000a, parameter1 00000017, parameter2 0000001c, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 80502e9a.
This same error shows up a few times.
Now, this system is a relatively new PC with minimal other software installed. However, it's basically had zero use and has never been connected to the Internet. It's basically been built to on sell but as soon as it started being used, the faults started.
Any ideas what to try or where to look? I'm being driven insane
and need to vent!!!
PS. Sorry for the long post.