Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: tvarmy04 on June 13, 2006, 09:49:35 PM
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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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Were you installing anything right when the power went out? Have you tried to see if Safe Mode works?
Flame
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Power surges can damage sensitive electrical components. Try the safe mode thing. If that doesn't work we will try something else.
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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
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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...
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and that is the only event between it used to work and it doesn't?
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yup
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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.
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You may have lost some of the malware that caused it too. ;)
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whoa whoa whoa...please dont tell me that cuz i got lots of music/porn/ games/ data/ that i need from taht
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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?
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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 :-/
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Download and run Everest Home and you will see exactly what parts are in that machine:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
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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
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well anyone?
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If you can't start in safe mode with this HD & your old HD works OK then either your current HD is faulty, which I doubt, or your windows files have been corrupted.
There is software available to test your HD with and if it is OK then a clean install or a repair with an Emergency Repair Disk will fix it.
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mabey the boot sector of his hard drive is screwed... you have two hard drives right? put your old hard drive in the computer as a master, and put the one that wont boot as a slave... not that i agree with porn of any kind, but, to each is own...