[Blackbirdws6]

I'm pretty much at my whits end with this machine. I've tried a lot troubleshooting but the machine is consistent and non-consistent with its issues.

Here goes....

I got a virus on the computer a while back and I reformatted the computer. Since that time, the computer would need multiple restarts and it would eventually run perfectly fine. During the restarts it would freeze at different spots for whatever reason but each time would get farther into running just fine.

Eventually the computer would just turn on and I would have no video. I thought maybe the video card went out so I reordered another.

Since then, I've been unable to complete a reformat of Windows. It froze occasionally during the blue screen copy files version, but it would consistently get caught up on the "tour of windows" type screen where it would begin to copy files.

My friend recommended trying to install linux and it eventually was able to do this after multiple attempts.

As of right now, this is where the computer is at.

- Computer has been stripped down to the video card, motherboard, HD and 2 sticks with 512 DDR RAM each.

- Cannot install Windows, hard drive was reformatted on another comp to verify there were no errors after numerous failed attempts on the base comp. Reformatted and there were no errors.

- I've tried swapping the RAM, removing one, putting them in different slots but I still get the same type of issues.

- I cleaned out a lot of the dust in the system but it didn't seem to help any.

Anyone have any ideas? I have never seen a computer have to be restarted numerous times and finally run the way its supposed to. Something finally gave up I guess and it just becoming a problem that the computer keeps getting hung up on.

Specs:

2.53 ghz P4
GB of RAM
120GB Hardrive
Intel motherboard

Thanks for any information.

-Brian