piddy
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:00 PM |
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PC won't start advice please
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 )
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BenB
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:15 PM |
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That's often a sign of memory problems. Try putting memcheck on a cd and boot from that.....
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l0rd
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:21 PM |
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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.
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BenTyreman
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:33 PM |
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Could also be a faulty power supply.
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cjtheman
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:33 PM |
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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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Miketheconn
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:41 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenTyreman
Could also be a faulty power supply.
I have to agree with Ben. Power supply sounds like its fritzed.
Dont do this: Its probably faulty cappacitors. If you open the power supply( really don't do it, the capacitors even when not connected to any
power supply for a number of weeks will still give you a nasty jolt) you will see some of the cappacitors are bulging at the top.
I have included a wikipedia link that basically gives you the jist of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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graememk
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:41 PM |
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your welcome to pop it over to me in the shop, i'm only in holbeach.
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the_fbi
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 01:40 PM |
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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?
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piddy
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 06:08 PM |
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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]
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the_fbi
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 06:23 PM |
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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.
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piddy
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| posted on 22/10/08 at 06:26 PM |
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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. 
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