My computer has stopped working.
Two or three months ago it kept shutting its self down while I was using it.
I opened it up and hovered out all the dust that had a cumulated inside this got it back to normal until this week.
Again it started to shut it self down especially when running programs as well as AVG scans.
So I decided to open it up again and give it another Hoover.
Unfortunately it now won’t start at all, not even in safe mode. I was careful what I touched with the Hoover and kept the PC plugged in.

If I start it in normal mode windows XP shows and the bars travelling across show and then it shuts down and restarts. (Does this mean the hard drive maybe ok? Or would it still show if the hard drive was dead?) Last know good configuration does as above.

In safe mode, safe mode with networking and Safe mode with command prompt it brings up writing across the screen “Multi o disk partition windows etc” for a bit and then shuts down.

Any advice what I might try?

My friend that built the PC and does all of my PC repairs is on his holiday at the moment. (Just my luck )

That's often a sign of memory problems. Try putting memcheck on a cd and boot from that.....

Try cleaning it up. Use some compressed air to clean it up. When i am in greece, i go to the petrol station and use their powerfull gun. Could be overheating.

Could also be a faulty power supply.

i found when i had this problem it was the processor fan giving up on me so pc shuts down to protect processor from getting damaged
cheers
colin

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Originally posted by BenTyreman
Could also be a faulty power supply.

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your welcome to pop it over to me in the shop, i'm only in holbeach.

hoovers are really really bad for PC's.

The amount of static they generate at the nozzle really isn't good

If you press F8 shortly after the BIOS POST screen, to get the "Windows Advaned Options" list (where you've tried Safe Mode etc), select the "Disable automatic restart on system failure" option.

When the PC boots now, it'll freeze with the error message displayed rathan than just rebooting again.

Whats the error?

FBI
I did what you said and this is what it said.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

Disable or uninstall any anti virus,disk defragmentaion or backup utilites,check hard drive configeration and check any updated drives,run CHKDSK?F to check any hard drive corruption and then re start your computer.

Technical information.
***stop:0X00000024 (0x00190203,0x86f04848,0xc0000102,0x00000000

[Edited on 5/10/08 by piddy]

Hopefully "just" an NTFS corruption issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

Presuming you have an XP CD, try option 2, if you're running a SATA HDD (in proper SATA rather than IDE emulation mode) then you'll need your SATA driver floppy and load that via the F6 prompt in order to mount up the partition. Worth a try without all the hassles of the SATA driver in case it just works without.

Then do a chkdsk /f on your boot drive which will hopefully fix the issue.

All sorted now.
I took the hard drive out of my PC and connected it to another PC as a slave drive.
When I switch the PC on the Disk was scanned and repaired. I Removed it and replaced in to my PC and all back to normal.