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« on: November 30, 2008, 02:56:06 PM »

hi
when i startmy pc it start for kind of 5 sec and then turn off. after maybe a min an a half it start again. time and date are changed (back to 2003)  so i need to change them everytime i start the pc . it now started to restart in the middle of a session ,black screen and then stop of the tower restart and no more problem  ???
i need help ran antiviruses and changed the batterry no succcess
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 03:47:44 PM »

Is this a laptop?
How old is the laptop?
What operating system?
And, does the battery, if this is a laptop, hold a charge at all? (eg: if you unplug it, does it stay on?)
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 04:44:52 PM »

no it s a desktop about 5 years old windows xp pack 2 the batterry i changed is the one on the mother board
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2008, 10:37:28 PM »

Can you boot OK into Safe Mode?
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 07:02:22 AM »

nope i tried that, brought me to a page asking me what did i want to boot first, disk drive or cd rom,i picked disk drive , it went on asking me something else which i had no clue about so i safely press esc , it started computer as normal and since it seems problem is gone . could it be so simple ????i have some doubt ...
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2008, 09:18:19 AM »

How are you accessing Safe Mode?
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2008, 11:42:33 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2008, 05:13:12 PM »

Is it Compaq?
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2008, 05:23:56 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2008, 05:40:14 PM »

Its a desktop, so it has a CR02 battery in it... it shouldent be able to recharge. How did you go about recharging it?
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« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2008, 05:49:26 AM »

i didnt recharge it i just changed it as i had a spare mother board at home.
anyway since i tried to start in safe mode problem doesn t accure anymore . strange...
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« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2008, 08:29:28 AM »

If it runs properly in safe mode chances are this is a missing or corrupted driver as Windows only loads minimal drivers in safe mode...
Check Device Manager first for any Yellow !!'s first.

Installed any new hardware lately ? ?
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« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2008, 01:11:00 PM »

device manager is fine no no new hardware since a while .see back to my posts i couldn t run in safe mode . i believe (but i m no one on computer to have an opinion ) than my cd rom was booting first and that s why the computer was stopping and starting again .i still don t understand why the clock was going back to 2003 ?? but whatever i did it didn t happened again in the last few days , finger crossed .
thanks to everyone for your helping post and for trying with me step by step to find the problem
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« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2008, 05:24:41 PM »

Nice :)
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