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Major computer problems...
So today my computer was fine and dandy and out of a sudden it crashed (ICQ
stopped responding, email client stopped responding, it wouldn't respond to ctrl+alt+del either...) so I reset the computer and the next thing I get is the rebooting would go past the motherboard screen and then go blank and have "press any key to reboot"....when a key was pressed it would reboot and go back to the same screen asking to reboot..... I then turned the computer right off and an hour later got back to it and turned it back on...it did start windows XP ok but then right after the computer finished loading all the startup programs (icq, dsl connection, antivirus) it started behaving weird like as if the electric current was going up and down and the hard drive light started flicking and staying on. It would stop responding when that started happening and I was not able to turn the computer off properly. I turned it off and haven't turned it on since. I have a 350 power supply (5 months old), ASUS mobo P4533-E and P4 1.7(both 4.5 months old), a 20 GB HD (3 years old - master) and a 120 GB HD (15 days - slave). My question is: What could be causing this failure? Can this be tracked directly to one part? Can having a power bar sitting close to the computer case cause problems like this? Is the prognosis bad? Thank you in advance for any help, FayeC |
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Remove all PCI cards (except Video) disconnect hd's, boot from floppy OR F8
just before (if) you see the 'loading windows" text. OR clear,(or load defaults) the CMOS with the jumper try and boot. ell" wrote in message ... So today my computer was fine and dandy and out of a sudden it crashed (ICQ stopped responding, email client stopped responding, it wouldn't respond to ctrl+alt+del either...) so I reset the computer and the next thing I get is the rebooting would go past the motherboard screen and then go blank and have "press any key to reboot"....when a key was pressed it would reboot and go back to the same screen asking to reboot..... I then turned the computer right off and an hour later got back to it and turned it back on...it did start windows XP ok but then right after the computer finished loading all the startup programs (icq, dsl connection, antivirus) it started behaving weird like as if the electric current was going up and down and the hard drive light started flicking and staying on. It would stop responding when that started happening and I was not able to turn the computer off properly. I turned it off and haven't turned it on since. I have a 350 power supply (5 months old), ASUS mobo P4533-E and P4 1.7(both 4.5 months old), a 20 GB HD (3 years old - master) and a 120 GB HD (15 days - slave). My question is: What could be causing this failure? Can this be tracked directly to one part? Can having a power bar sitting close to the computer case cause problems like this? Is the prognosis bad? Thank you in advance for any help, FayeC |
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Greetings...
From your description - it sounds more likely that you have contracted a virus. The repeated reboot message, is usually symptomatic of a corrupted registry - Did this happen about 5 times? (the standard number of registry backups that windows normally keeps) - sounds like the virus has managed to get you to get them all! You mentioned that it did post at one point, and did load startup programs normally, but then started accessing the HD continuously at which point you turned it off... While I doubt that you are having a hardware problem, by your description, it is of course possible... However without a lot of more detailed information, and going on only what you described, If I were you, I'd start digging around for the Recovery disk that every good AV package has you make.... That is of course assuming that you actually have one, and made one... |
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