Please Help me......Please!

[JustPlainJim]

Hi to all and hope this finds you doing well!! I'm at my witts ends here. I have a 3.4 ghz with 3 gig of ram and it runs Windows XP Home Edition. I have the Full Version Disc and is not an upgrade. My problem is lengthy but, I will do my best to cut to the chase to save on your important time. Here's my problem:

For about a month now I've been having problems with Windows Explorer shutting down. I finally got tired of it and decided to reinstall Windows XP on my 30gig. I did and all was fine untill I decided to try Aston's windows makeover. I didn't care for it and decided to delete it. Well, I couldn't find where to change back to the windows shell so I just deleted it and rebooted the computer. Not a smart thing to do. The computer booted up just fine but I ended up with a blue screen and no icons or taskbar. If I tried to bring up the Task Manager it would come up with no problems. So, I decided to do a repair install instead of a complete install and things appeared fine untill I decided to use my burners and everytime I tried to access them the computer would lock up hard. I remembered I had a good copy of explorer on one of my other harddrives and over wrote the explorer file in the windows directory. I gained control of the burners and again all looked fine. Then all hell broke loose. The computer started stalling out on the boot screen and after several tries at booting up, it would come up but, then back to stalling out on the boot up screen some more. So, I did a complete install this time and got the first screen of the Windows XP asking to enable protection now and name the user, and all once again seemed fine. That is until I rebooted!!! The system got to the boot screen and just went dead. My monitor stated no input signal. I tried rebooting again the samething. I then tried again and got the samething again. So, I decided to see if one of my other harddrives that has my operating system XP Home Edition on it would boot up and it does. So, I went back to that harddrive (the one with the fresh install) and it again did the samething, died at the boot screen. So, I assumed the harddrive was dead and bought a 320 gig and installed XP on that and it did the samething!!! The system died at the boot screen. So, I decided once more to reformat and when I went to reboot, I couldn't even get to the BIOS. After several attempts at a restart and key pushin, I manage to get 4 options for the BIOS which the first three did nothing and the only one that seemed to do anything, was Flash Recovery for the BIOS. I flashed the BIOS and was able to get back to the harddrive problem. I did a reformat one last time late last night and still have the same problem. When I try to boot up a Fresh install of Windows on either the 30gig or the 320gig, it goes dead at the boot screen. I apologize for being so windy, but I wanted everyone to try and get the whole picture of my problem. Any help with this would be so very much appreciated!!!!
Thank you for your time and thoughts,
PS.

I checked the ram out and left ONLY one stick in and it still didn't boot. In fact I took my other harddrive which has XP on it and it booted up fine, then I reformated it and installed windows xp. Once again it went to the boot screen and then dropped signal. However, this time I did notice that the harddrive was still running and when I went to shut down, the activity started up again on the harddrive as it was shutting down.
Oh, one other thing that comes to mind is another error that occurred and of course I failed to mention this and apologize. Last night when I was reformating the 20gig and installing Windows XP, I wasn't at the computer the whole time, but during the install I came back to the computer and on the screen was something like a screensaver (black with the words moving around) it stated that something wasn't supported. I can't remember exactly what it said other than "not supported". Nothing at that time was going on, no disc activity, no harddive activity, nothing. I couldn't gain controll with scrolling the mouse around to get it out of that screensaver appearance. The only way was a hard reboot and it came back and stated that Windows setup was restarting. One more thing. While I had the 20 gig booted up I had my jumpdrive plugged in because I was going to update my BIOS but, I changed my mind because I think the version of the BIOS I downloaded was a version that stated not to use on my Motherboard. But while hesatiting, I tried to close out a text docoument and noticed that the computer locked up to the point the only way out was to pull the plug or do a hard reboot.

I thank you for your time,it's so much appreciated.
Jim

[JustPlainJim]

AT ALL THE REPLIES!!!!!!

Nevermind I found the problem!