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He's pulled memory one dimm at a time just in case it was some bad ram.


Did he run memtest86? If that came up clean, then there's probably nothing wrong with the memory.

At this point, another option is to throw a clean disk in there and try a ground-up reinstall of Windows. That'll help to tell you whether it's the existing Windows install that's hosed, or whether the PC is broken, and can't run Windows.

One thing worth checking (and I don't want to worry you here) is that my board with the blown caps ran memtest86 fine, but then froze while attempting to install Windows.
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