Err... The bluescreen is a Windows thing. The fact that it was able to boot into Windows in the first place means that it works to some extent...
Some things you could do:
-Write down the codes that Windows' BSOD tells you at the bottom(it should mention a driver and some codes) and Google them. This should tell you the problem.
-Try to reinstall Windows..
-Maybe install a CLI version of Linux? The Linux kernel should tell you more about the problem if it can't boot. (you can also run Linux off a flash stick, floppy, CD, ect)
-If you have another laptop with some compatible parts(CPU socket, ) and want to check for yourself, you could swap parts with that laptop.
-Look for something called Memtest86 or something like that that boots off of a floppy and checks you RAM for errors.
-If your computer has two or more modules of RAM, try taking them out and only using one and then only the other.
-Take out any hardware that you don't need to boot it into the BIOS(hard drives, cdrom drives, any PCI cards, USB devices, floppy drives, ect). Then add hardware in until it breaks.
Anyway, a desktop motherboard would usually run for around $100 to $200 for a good, modern one. (I guess an old motherboard could be $50)
I suppose it'd be more expensive for laptops since their motherboard has to match the case, ect, and probably has more on-board stuff, although I'm not sure.
The minimum/recommended requirements for RAM don't say how much the application actually uses, but how much an average system would need to have enough free to run the application after considering all the other processes using RAM. So something that says it needs 1G of ram would actually use less.. And your computer can write to the hard disk as if it were RAM to effectively get more of it, but it's slow. |