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Windows XP home, will not boot. Sits at the load screen with the little green bar scrolling for all eternity. I can do a repair from the install CD, but it takes half an hour, and only works for one boot. then I have the same problem again. This should not be. I can't wipe the drive and start over, becuase it has data I need to finish work that's due tomorrow. Any help would be appreciated.
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eR...can you save your work stuff onto CD and use another computer for the night?
Not to say the obvious, but Kinko's is open for just such nightmares (assuming you are using some standard program and not anything company-specific, that is).
If you have a jumpdrive with enough memory, you can run the specific program off it (if it's unique to your work).
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WEIRD! I've had the EXACT same problem over the last week. Except mine went further - half way during working (It eventually got to windows after a reboot) the computer shut down.
After a strange-looking (different type of text) Blue Screen of Death. It then said it couldn't detect my hard drive. I was freaking out. I left the thing alone for nearly a week. I tried it last night - this time I got throught to the part where I press 'F8' to get into safe mode. Tried the 'debug mode' - just did the same extended windows green bar thing.
Tried 'restore from last working... whatever' - same thing.
Started in safe mode - it started in normal mode - and it was ok - except weird shit has happened like it says it doesn't recognise Windose Media Player or that my 'WINDOWS explorer' is "out of date".
I'm guessing the computer is on it's way out - I have most backed up - maybe not e-mails.
It's time to get a new computer. I still want to keep this one - so after I get a new computer will a complete wipe of the disc fix this problem or was it a hardware problem - like the fan on the heat sink or the CPU or the memory.
If i remember correctly the blue screen of death said that it had some kernal error - and something about virtual memory and it was doing 'dumping' - PAGE dumping? or Kernal dumping or something.
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I need access to THIS windows install, on THIS box. There is no other solution that can be implemented in the time I have.
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Things that piss me off today: I finished this slideshow. Barely managed to burn it and turn it in. Got paid. They call and say "change x y and z". MY COMPUTER DOES NOT WORK!!
Laptop, which I'm trying to diagnose with, is randomly dying.
New processor which caused all this will probably have to go back.
I have a senior project group that won't respond to my e-mails telling them that I'm dead in the water and that they'll have to pick up the slack. I've done all the work the last three weeks, and it's damned good work. I don't want it to be for nothing because they won't do anything.
I'm on the edge of having TWO degrees in computing, and I don't know the right buttons to push to make Windows work.
I can't just wipe the system, because I need files on that drive.
And I can't sleep until this is done.
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If your computer only survives one reboot and you need everything on there to last until tomorrow, why don't you just, y'know, not reboot it?
And if you want more help, stop saying "frell". Seriously, it's not impressing anyone.
Andrew: It's going to be pretty hard to determine exactly what's wrong with your Windows installation from that information. It could be one of a hundred things. It's possible that that single crash is what's caused all the other errors. Do a repair installation of Windows (boot from the Windows CD, select the partition or drive where you'd installed Windows and then press "r" when it asks you if you want to repair your current installation). Then get back to me.
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What happens in Safe mode boot? I had this, after installing a new driver Assuming you have it enabled, you can rollbcak the system files using System Restore. Rolling back a few days I found helped
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Woa woa waheyoa... you put a new CPU in a laptop?
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Well I did get the whole "insert boot disk" - so I inserted the original windows cd and it copied stuff. Then started windows... It was chugging along for about 10 mins then crashed again - and wouldn't restart - just kept going back to that 'insert boot disk' dos-esque 'setup'.
Thing is, I left the computer - thinking it was stuffed for about 4 days - started it again - and apart from as I said pressing F8 and starting in safemode etc. The computer is working again! ALTHOUGH it say it doesn't recognise windows media player or thinks that for some reason I shouldn't be able to use window explorer as it has 'passed it's trial date' - I mean WHAT trial date - unless that was for some unseen program?
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Are you sure it was Windows Explorer saying that message, and not some other piece of software (like a registry cleaner)?
And what do you mean by "you inserted the original Windows CD and it copied stuff"? Did you actually do a repair installation, like this:
Boot the computer using the XP CD. When you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you will see the options below
This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft Windows XP to run on your computer:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.
To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.
Press Enter to start the Windows Setup. Do not choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R", (you DO NOT want to load Recovery Console). I repeat, do not choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R". Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows installations. Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list and press R to start the repair. Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue as if it were doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will remain intact.
You could also do worse than checking the temperature of your machine. Although as Spring will have only just started down there that's unlikely to be a problem.
Once you've done that try using Explorer again. And if the message comes up take a screenshot and post it here.
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I got one last good boot out of it and burned what I needed. All things are backed up, I'm just going to fry the Windows install and start over. Then I'll worry about why my new processor is somehow capable of crashing Memtest86. Temperature is good, so I'm thinking it's the power supply.
Nervous breakdown is thus narrowly averted.
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Haven't you got anything more fun to do than try and put new processor's in laptops? Like perform dental surgury on yourself?
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Note the words "all this". Subtle, they are.
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Also, a CPU that caused memtest to crash would have to cause other things to crash as well, methinks.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: And if you want more help, stop saying "frell". Seriously, it's not impressing anyone.
Yeah! Curse like a man, ya fuckin' fuck.
Glad you got your stuff from your computer, BTW. fucker! tee hee!
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