As of a week ago, my home desktop has been getting serious hardware errors (bluescreen of death, specifically), and performance has degraded to nearly the point of programs flat-out freezing at some points.
Unfortunately, this is my only computer I can mod with, so I have to repair it in order to continue making the mods I already started.
I have only a very limited amount of experience in repairing computers, so I might need some one-on-one assistance in actually fixing it.
All I can really tell is that after turning my computer on after about a week away, it showed the infamous Bluescreen of Death and restarted. After the restart, I installed the newest Malwarebytes on the off chance that my AV (Avast) missed something but that returned negative, save some PUPS (potentionally unwanted programs) from an AV I installed a while back which has never caused me these kinds of problems. After the scan, my computer worked fine for a few hours until it restarted via another Bluescreen error with the new issue that my internet adapter suddenly stopped functioning. This happened an additional time following.
Here are my computer's Physical Specs
System Manufacturer:Gigabyte Technology Co, LTD Model:GA-MA78LM-S2 Total Amount of System Memory:2.00 GB RAM System Type:32-bit Operating System Number of Processor Cores:3 64-bit Capable:Yes
Storage Total Size of Hard Disk(s):2403 GB Disk Partition (C:)74 GB Free Disk Partition (D:)10GB Free Media Drive (E:)CD/DVD Disk Partition (F:)636 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Graphics Display Adapter Type:Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Total Available Graphics Memory:2814 MB Dedicated Graphics Memory:2048 MB Dedicated System Memory:0 MB Shared System Memory:766 MB Display Adapter Driver Version:10.18.13.6881 Primary Monitor Resolution:1600x900 DirectX Version:DirectX 10
If need be, I have the Windows 7 disk I bought nearby to reinstall/wipe the Hard Drive, but I hope it doesn't come to that.
Additionally, I'm in the market to find a decent priced laptop with similar specs, so if you have any potential ideas, I'd be interested in hearing about them.