HP Pavillion will not boot up everytime

We dont use this desk to to often, but we turned it on, fans came on, sounded like somthing eas startingt to boot. and then nothing black screen. after a little while of turning it off and on it booted up, was able to update virus software and windows updates. and then a little bit later it crashed (we were not in the room at the time). I did a little looking on here and I found that it coulb be memory or a mother board. This morning I sat down next to the tower (its on the floor) hand accidently hit the power button and it powered and booted just like it suppose to. then after about a minute or 2 a blue screen came up (see bleow) HELP what do I need to do to get this working again? I tried the memory removal and test in each spot but still not booting.

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Hi,
I have a very similar issue with a HP Pavillion a6355.uk, the hard drive kept crshing windows and then it finally just kept getting pass the HP boot menu options, and then all I get is the DOS "@press ctrl+alt+del to restart".
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Serial # [edited by Moderator]
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