Toronto Garage Door Company wrote:
I live in Toronto Canada, and I have some serious computer problems
First I will explain why I am angry .. then I will explain the
problems I am having with my computer lol

I tried installing Macromedia Dreamweaver...Fireworks and Microsoft
Office 2003. Each time I got an error saying that I require a newer
version of windows. Windows 2000 or later!

Correct.

So normally I would NEVER use WinME...

Join the club.

but I have some serious
problems with my computer. I've taken it in to the repair shop a few
times...but to no avail..they say nothing is wrong with my
board...chip...or memory. The problems have been active since the
day I purchased my computer...and as stupid as I am, I did not send
it back to them, and I lost out on warranty. I'll eat whatever I have
to in order to get it working properly however, since it was my fault
for not returning it!

I'm assuming you bought this machine to run XP on? It should be more than
capable for the job. Man you should have been all over the vendor on a daily
basis until it was sorted.

What happens is I constantly get page faults when browsing with
Internet Explorer. Explorer will crash quite frequently, and I have
to restart my browser all over again. A few times it was some sort
of HTML.dll error....but not every time.

This is VERY annoying...but something I learned to live with. I have
tried installing WinXP on this computer...but for some reason after a
month or two .. I will end up getting a blue code stop error
(C00002x or whatever the number is) ...or the computer starts acting
VERY wierd...like losing all icons on my desktop, and can't get them
back no matter what I do .. and I'm back to format and reinstalling
an operating system....IF that even works.

As the machine seems to be pretty useless right now I'd start by running
memetest86 (it runs from a boot-disk and is freely downloadable). I think
your problem may lie with your RAM, regardless of what the vendor claims. It
is the most likely culprit, followed by a bad PSU.

My computer is a 1.9ghz p4...80gig HD .. 256ddr ram .. geforce 4
mx440 ... and the thing runs 100000000X worse than my 700mhz hp used
to lol

What motherboard?

When I first purchased it, while installing an OS, the computer would
go blue code stop during install every time. When I took it in to a
repair shop, they said that when they unplugged my DVD Rom, it seemed
to smooth the problem out. They said there was some sort of
conflict. So I learned to live without the DVD Rom.

Maybe the DVD-ROM was set to use DMA (Direct Memory Access) as it should
have been and this caused errors. Conflicts are there to be sorted out, not
just given up on.

Then, I took the computer in to get it repaired again when my
motherboard shorted out.

How did this happen?

They replaced the board, and while they
were doing that I explained to them my problems with programs
constantly crashing, and my OS issues. They said that it could be
either a memory problem, or a cpu problem. They ran tests on the
memory and cpu....everything checked out. I tried using a different
video card.....still problems.

It's not your video card.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a complete loss!!!

As I said, memtest86, run it for a few hours, overnight if needed, and if it
reports even one error then the RAM is poked. If it runs fine then try
running Prime95 (free download) and see if that reports errors.

How are your temperatures? Have you ran a disk-checking utility? Even
Checkdisk (Windows) will do for a start. I presume you are running it at
stock speeds and not overclocking? I would say your problem could be, in
order of likelyhood, RAM, inadequate power-supply, HDD problems or
motherboard.

Thanks!
Arjay

No problems. Post back and we'll see if we can sort this sucker out.
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~misfit~