I'm going outside I may be some time

13 Jul 2006

Right its died my PC has finnaly gone tits up on me :shock: I'm now speaking to you via a borrowed lap top, well it's mine actually but I lent it to my folks some time back and have had to borrow it back of them and am only allowed it for the evening confused

:? :? :? :? :?
I went to boot mine up just and it went so far then blue screened for a split second then restarted then blue screened then restarted then blue ................... ah you get the idea.
all i've done to it the last time I used it was to run an ad ware check.......... now its fooked, I would reload XP but it seems I lost that in the seperation some 18 months ago rolleyes

So I'm online for a few hours and any tips on what it may be or how to fix it would be greatfully received. Please I appriciate that you may be trying to help but with out sounding big headed if its got me stumped trust me its nothing basic or a usual fault so none of the safe mode chuck ya hard drive in the vacum cleaner and switch it on stuff please lol

:lol:
My PM box is this way >>>>>> (well Its down there actually but I can't find a down arrow ) or chuck it in this thread.
I may be gone a few hours or even weeks if it turns out to be a hard ware fault (though I doubt it is) so all offers of money, free hols or Oasis tickets to my PM box (I'll get PK to check it regually for me if I'm not at hers)
Yours faithfully a very pissed off (because hes lost 3 years worth of his daughter photos because the numpty didn't back them up) Sheddy wave

13 Jul 2006

Hope fully the photo's can still be salvaged. Just need to try plugging the disk into another pc with a spare hdd plug. I ve done it before.
As for whats wrong with your pc well, as you know its difficult to do without actualy being there so any info however much you think its trivial may get us closer.

13 Jul 2006

Quote by goose35
As for whats wrong with your pc well, as you know its difficult to do without actualy being there so any info however much you think its trivial may get us closer.

Sadly there is no more info goose, it boots goes to the loading windows XP page stalls on that longer than usual blue screens for such a split second I can't see the text on it to tell me the fault, reboots then goes to the safe start screen where you have so many seconds to choose normal mode, safe mode, safe with command prompt, safe with netowrking...........................No matter which option I choose it goes to the windows xp loading screen and then blues then the cycle starts again rolleyes

All I can think of is when I ran it last I ran ad ware as I said but forgot to ad that I had a power interuption so it didn't shut down right mad

so all I can guess is it has only partly removed some of then spy ware programms and the registary is fooked :cry:

13 Jul 2006

are you on broadband or dial up rolleyes

13 Jul 2006

Don't know if this will help but a friend of mine used when they needed to reinstall XP

13 Jul 2006

Quote by markz
are you on broadband or dial up

Broadband........................Half a meg.................my isp is BT and i've found this is it yours flipa

:roll:

:lol:

13 Jul 2006

did you get the sky package with BT

13 Jul 2006

From a non tecckie person.
Are you sure it is not just the screen that had broken, mine did that, a new screen and away I went.
Good luck in solving the problem

13 Jul 2006

Quote by Sarah
From a non tecckie person.
Are you sure it is not just the screen that had broken, mine did that, a new screen and away I went.
Good luck in solving the problem

Na it is my home entertainment system as well so its conected to the TV and that screen is not even working because it won't get as far as loading the drivers for the TV card :cry:

13 Jul 2006

OMG Sheddy
I feel for ya cos i would be lost without my comp!! Wish I could help but when i t cosme to computers i know how to use them and thats about it lol sorry xx

13 Jul 2006

Sheddy have you tried opening the base unit and cleaning your fans?? dunno

My dogs danglies puter is very sensitive and keeps crashing the same as yours when the fans get clogged up.... It's worth a try :dunno:
Hope you get sorted soon hun kiss

13 Jul 2006

Quote by Shireen_Mids
Sheddy have you tried opening the base unit and cleaning your fans??
My dogs danglies puter is very sensitive and keeps crashing the same as yours when the fans get clogged up.... It's worth a try :dunno:
Hope you get sorted soon hun

Yeah carfully run a hoover round it aswell preferably with a soft attachment :shock:

13 Jul 2006

Quote by goose35
Yeah carfully run a hoover round it aswell preferably with a soft attachment :shock:

Nooooooo you just get a sharp impliment and dig out the clogs of dust etc.......
:giggle: bolt

13 Jul 2006

Mine was doing exactly same thing last week, turned out i needed a new hardrive, hope its nothing to serious and u get it it sorted soon.
Lindaxxx

13 Jul 2006

Sheddy;
One thing that may be worth trying is to put your original XP system disk in and when it boots up (assuming it manages to get that far), select the option to Repairrather than Install. XP should detect that it's already installed on the PC and offer you this option. If it doesn't come up, just Exit instead and nothing will get installed.
That should only put back the corrupted Windows files required without touching your data (unless you're in the habit of storing pics etc in your Windows directory).
You may need to change the boot-up settings on your PC (BIOS settings, usually accessed by hitting the F2, Tab or Del key at boot time) so that it's allowed to boot from a CD-ROM.
Hope it helps.

13 Jul 2006

Quote by McrM4M-pvtOK
Sheddy;
One thing that may be worth trying is to put your original XP system disk in and when it boots up (assuming it manages to get that far), select the option to Repair rather than Install. XP should detect that it's already installed on the PC and offer you this option. If it doesn't come up, just Exit instead and nothing will get installed.
That should only put back the corrupted Windows files required without touching your data (unless you're in the habit of storing pics etc in your Windows directory).
You may need to change the boot-up settings on your PC (BIOS settings, usually accessed by hitting the F2, Tab or Del key at boot time) so that it's allowed to boot from a CD-ROM.
Hope it helps.

Thanks I would have done so but when I split uip from the ex it was the only piece of soft ware i left behind, a quick phone call tonight confirmed she chucked it out the week after I packed me bags :cry:

13 Jul 2006

Make a system on another PC and copy onto it. Boot from that disk and then see if you can run CHKDSK on your hard drive.
That's probably bollox but it's the best I can come up with ;-)

13 Jul 2006

Assuming you have done a full hardware diag, ie removed all nonesential boards from your mobo, can you borrow a system hdd from someone? if so plug it in and see if you boot. if you do your hdd is fecked, data recovery was about per meg last time I looked.
I had this happen a few months back, I had just installed a new program which required a reboot, did the reboot and got the eternal bluescreen cycle. Naturaly I assumed it was something to do with the instalation, dll overwriten or registry fecked.
turns out it was pure coincidense, and the fault turned out to be a dodgy cdrom drive.
hth
if not, hope you get it sorted :thumbup:

13 Jul 2006

Quote by sheddy
Thanks I would have done so but when I split uip from the ex it was the only piece of soft ware i left behind, a quick phone call tonight confirmed she chucked it out the week after I packed me bags :cry:

Oh that's a bugger.....do you know anyone who could lend you a copy? It won't affect the activation key if you're rebuilding.

13 Jul 2006

If you get a blue screen and it reboots before windows loads then it must be hardware at fault.
Try unplugging everything out possible so the computer is running on bare basics with no pci cards, cd roms, usb devises or anything if possible.. apart from the things you need like your hard drive ect lol
then see if it boots up..... if it does then its something you just unplugged biggrin

If it still don't work either kick it, get a new xp disk or bring it down here and i will do it wink

Tony :wink:

13 Jul 2006

your adware sweep probably deleted a boot file that the machine needs.
If you can get your hands on an old win 98 boot disk, start it with that in and use the boot repair program.
I'm no expert but I think its C:/bootfix or something. Try searching goole on another pc on how exactly to do it.

13 Jul 2006

I wouldn't recommend that - Win98 used a different file system (depending on how the PC was setup).
You'd be better going to and seeing what tools they have there if you can't borrow an XP system disk

13 Jul 2006

Quote by McrM4M-pvtOK
Oh that's a bugger.....do you know anyone who could lend you a copy? It won't affect the activation key if you're rebuilding.

Right can I say you are all wonderfull people biggrin

I have had PM's offering advice and I will PM you all back to say thanks when I've sorted it. RE: This quote I've remembered I have a ahem copy of XP wink

however its at PKHQ so I will grab it when I'm next up.
But I've managed to get it to stay on the blue screen after a reminder via PM (you will get a gushing thanks PM when I get chance but for now worship

) and the error message is unmountable_boot_volume the MS support tells me the O/S IS safe and its a hardware or software fault tell me something I don't know rolleyes

but I've tried all there cures to no avail except one that involves me entering the recovery panel for which I need a disk (cue a visit to PK HQ) or to create a boot floppy which I've tried but for some reason it's a duff copy (typical) but I'm going to make another now and see if that helps lol

Truelly thanks to all I know it sound a trivual problem but I've worked away from home for years and have all the special occasions I've missed from my child growing up home movies, photos letters to the chap in the north pole etc saved on my C drive and it means a great deal to me if I can save it all so I'm not beaten yet :D :D

13 Jul 2006

Let this be a lesson to us all :small-print:
I just checked my backups and it's been 3 months :shock:
No prizes for guessing what I'll be doing in the morning rolleyes

Sheddy, really hope it works out ok, if not, before you despair I really would look into data recovery, it's amazing what they can retrieve from fecked hdds
:thumbup:

13 Jul 2006

Sheddy....... Have you cleaned your fans???
Trust me hun wink

13 Jul 2006

Quote by Shireen_Mids
Sheddy....... Have you cleaned your fans???
Trust me hun

I hadn't but now I will as I'm at a blank for the time being..................brb in about 10 mins and shireen if it works i'm heading your way with a huge kiss :shock:

13 Jul 2006

:mrgreen: I will await your arrival :smug:

13 Jul 2006

don't hold your breath rolleyes

13 Jul 2006

Quote by Shireen_Mids
:mrgreen: I will await your arrival :smug:

Well you'll be bloody waiting a long time :cry: :cry:
Na sorry shireen no joy :cry: :cry:
However a kiss might just make me feel a bit better :grin: kiss

<<<< waits in hope :twisted:

13 Jul 2006

:( :( Ah well it was worth a try.... It works for me :lol2:
Sorry Sheddy kiss

:kiss:
Markz flipa

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