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    Not sure if HD failed or Video Card busted...

    Thanks Roger! I can do all of those steps except for clearing the CMOS, which I simply don't understand :( Could it be done safely with a little help from google along the way? Also, I'm not sure if the Memory Diagnostics tool that comes with Vista is sufficient, but I was able to run that...
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    Not sure if HD failed or Video Card busted...

    After a power outage, I started to receive stop errors involving nvstor.sys (an nvidia-related file). I ran through dozens of different errors from "No boot device available" to "disc read error has occurred". I eventually used DBAN to wipe the drive clean (which ran in to a few non-fatal...

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