Is it likely that the PSU has corrupted the new mobo/memory?

A few months ago there was a black-out when my pc was on. When I turned the PC back on it kept restarting itself or blue-screening at random. I suspected the memory and/or the PSU had been screwed up by the black-out and as I had a spare PSU and memory and not much time I replaced them both. The PC worked fine.

I'm now using the old PSU in a new PC. A win2k or xp install always-blue screens just around the 'copying required files' stage with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. I've only got hardware basics in the PC (mobo, 1 hdd, 1 fdd and onboard sound, lan etc is disabled). Is it likely that the PSU has corrupted the new mobo/memory? I don't want to install new memory in case it screws that up as well.

This question was answered on April 10, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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Posted by ricardo of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 10, 2003

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