Hi there....I am having an ENORMOUS problem at the moment....the other night I was using an application, a simple game, when my computer rebooted suddenly....its now in the throws of rebooting going to the Windows XP splash screen and then a quick blue screen with some words on it flashes on and off so fast that I cannot read the text....I put a windows disk in to try and reach the repair console....and it seems to work it says Examining disk config. then it says its examining the disk on 0 on bus 0 on atapi....or something very close to this and it won't stop....I let it sit for hours on end and the screen never changed....I have tried all safe mode options, last known good config, start windows normally and it still wont work at all....so basically I am stuck, I can't reformat it, I can't repair it....I thought about trying Fedora 10, and if that doesn't work....I suppose the only choice I have left is a new hard drive...which I am less than eager to shell out for. If anyone has an idea or suggestion I would really appreciate it.
Is there anyway to.....I suppose "manually" wipe the drive...say with a magnet or something...I am not too keen on doing that but if it would work I suppose I would give it a try.
Thanks!
I think you get a boot sector virus. Your MBR might be corrupted. You should:
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I noticed the problem. What you may want to do is reboot the machine and continously tap the the F8 key until you get to your boot options screen. From here you can disable automatic restart on system failure. Now we can get the BSOD error (it is normally something like 0x00000000 or a similar format).
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Having a very similar problem. I've been dealing with computer restarts for at least a year and half (They usually only happen when I'm running several intense operations on the computer such as graphically intense computer games with other programs running in the background). It started around the time that i did two things. I added memory to the computer and updated my video card drivers. Since then I've replaced the memory and video card. With the introduction of the new video card I've been getting the blue screen, where before it would just restart, and just today was able to read what it was saying. Here's the info:
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Similar problem. I can't get past the splash screen either. I have gotten it to boot up a few times however, and after some time the cursor goes hour glass, and never returns. I lose all function except moving that effing hour glass around the screen uselessly. Anyway, since I have been able to boot several times(after many many manual rebooting efforts), I'm wondering if it is a hard drive problem at all. I'm scared to buy a new hard disk, if I actually need a new motherboard.
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All right, I don't know if this will help anyone else. Here's what I did. After buying a new hdd and reloading everything, a week later the same splash screen purgatory returned. So I went another direction. I switched in my old ram sticks. Magic. Like a brand new computer. Again I don't know if this will help anyone else, especially laptop users who can not so easily switch out components, but it may be a next to last resort for the desperate. |
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