hairyferry
15-11-2005 20:54:54
Alright well, last night I was on my computer and I got a battery dieing warning, about five minutes later the computer went into hibernate. About an hour later I turned the computer back on and used it for about a half hour and all of a sudden my battery just died and my computer turned off. When I got home I turned on the computer and it loaded and the screen came up saying my computer didn't shut down right and if I wanted to continue booting up normally or have it boot up in one of the safe modes. I tried every single one of them. What happens is when the windows logo pops up with the little loading bar under it it starts to load then it just resets. I tested both sticks of RAM and they're both good. I have yet to actually get into windows. Any ideas?
~K
CoMpFrEaK
15-11-2005 22:16:59
So your saying Windows is corupt?
In MS Dos run
chkdsk/r
if that dosent work your in trouble
hairyferry
15-11-2005 22:46:33
How do I get into Dos before it says windows where it's loading?
CoMpFrEaK
15-11-2005 22:49:18
[quotebf53a62746="hairyferry"]How do I get into Dos before it says windows where it's loading?[/quotebf53a62746]
Have the XP disk?
hairyferry
15-11-2005 22:53:12
yeppers I do, just not with me at the moment
nicd.01
15-11-2005 22:57:54
Did you drop it in a tub full of water?
hairyferry
15-11-2005 23:03:37
lol, well right now I wish I did. That way I'd atleast know what was wrong with it.
hairyferry
16-11-2005 01:23:20
ah, well I just installed XP again and it worked fine.. soo wierd... dumb computers.
kyks17
16-11-2005 03:36:12
ur lucky that didnt ruin it more, my desktop was acting like that and i reinstalled windows and it wouldnt even go to the windows screen then (
mikedb
16-11-2005 04:46:58
Yuo are lucky, mine does that every onece and awhile... the hard drive is on the way out...
Wolfeman
16-11-2005 11:45:55
[quote759f78ef17="hairyferry"]Alright well, last night I was on my computer and I got a battery dieing warning, about five minutes later the computer went into hibernate. About an hour later I turned the computer back on and used it for about a half hour and all of a sudden my battery just died and my computer turned off. When I got home I turned on the computer and it loaded and the screen came up saying my computer didn't shut down right and if I wanted to continue booting up normally or have it boot up in one of the safe modes. I tried every single one of them. What happens is when the windows logo pops up with the little loading bar under it it starts to load then it just resets. I tested both sticks of RAM and they're both good. I have yet to actually get into windows. Any ideas?
~K[/quote759f78ef17]
It sounds like a startup file got corrupted. I'd boot from WinXP disk, when it loads you say you want to install XP, hit enter then F8, then it will search for a exsisting install. Hopefully it finds your exsisting install and hit R to start a repair. It will go through like the first install and then it should work. Sorry if some of the steps aren't right but I'm going off memory.
Wolfeman
16-11-2005 11:47:33
Or maybe I should read the thread but it sounds like you did what I suggested. That happened to me when I was fixing a friends computer because I removed a ton of spyware and the repair fixed it...