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tvarmy04

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my computer keeps restarting....and restarting...
« on: June 13, 2006, 09:49:35 PM »
ok for some reason someone in the house decided to mess with the breaker switches outside the house and my comp was on when they did it...when i went to restart my comp(afer the power was back on) i noticed it wont start windows like it goes throug the whole bios thing then i  get the screen that says blah blah blah 'start windows normally' or 'safemode' or 'safemode xxx' . so wehn i click on start windows normally it gets to the windows loading screen and then just restarts on its own and it keeps doin that. when i went to plug in my old hd it works normaly so i know it has somthin to do with the hd but i dont know wat...

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 07:54:21 AM »
Were you installing anything right when the power went out? Have you tried to see if Safe Mode works?

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« Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 07:54:41 AM by flame »

GX1_Man

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 01:02:43 PM »
Power surges can damage sensitive electrical components. Try the safe mode thing. If that doesn't work we will try something else.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 06:33:31 PM by GX1_Man »

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 05:05:29 PM »
nope i tried all the options to boot windows safemode, reg start up, etc. .... and everything leads to it starting the windows load screen then it just restarts

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2006, 05:06:30 PM »
and i wasnt installing anything just browsin the www. i know power surges like that will mess the internals up but i have everything plugged into a belkin surge protector...

GX1_Man

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2006, 06:34:15 PM »
and that is the only event between it used to work and it doesn't?

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2006, 07:42:03 PM »
yup

dongiuseppe

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2006, 07:49:29 PM »
hey that problem happened to me.  I was just watching a video in divx format and all of the sudden my computer turned off.  Then when i started back up again I got that same screen as you.  I couldn't start in safe mode or anything.  Nothing was working at all.  So I just re-installed windows and everything was fine after that. But I lost of my data.

GX1_Man

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2006, 08:48:25 PM »
You may have lost some of the malware that caused it too.  ;)

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2006, 09:32:06 PM »
whoa whoa whoa...please dont tell me that cuz i got lots of music/porn/ games/ data/ that i need from taht

GX1_Man

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2006, 09:35:39 PM »
What components are in there? You could always boot with a Linux LiveCD and copy the files, porn, whatever to a CDRW, across a network, to a pen drive, whatever, and THEN reformat.

We would hate for you to lose your porn.  :o

Seriously, do you never back that stuff up?

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2006, 01:29:07 PM »
wat do u mean componets??

....you know wat i really need to and i always tell my self i will but i never do lol  :-/

GX1_Man

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2006, 02:42:31 PM »
Download and run Everest Home and you will see exactly what parts are in that machine:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2006, 06:36:39 PM »
ok heres wat componets im runnin

mobo-gigabyte ga-8ipe 1000 (-L)
cpu-P4 3000mhz
ram-1024 mn pc2700
vid card-ati radeon 9600 pro
sound card-creative sb live!

and i cant run this proggy on the old hd cuz ...it wont work

tvarmy04

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Re: my computer keeps restarting....and restarting
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2006, 06:57:46 PM »
well anyone?