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Help, my pc won't boot.... Sort of.

  • 18-03-2005 9:40am
    #1
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭


    Was playing X2 last night and was playing all night in fairness and then it kept crashing specifically after about 10 secs in the game (once the game itself was running) My pc was running hot so I figured that was it and turned the pc off (desktop was fine... I even went on the net for a bit after I stopped playing).

    Then I turned it off and left it for an hour and when I came back the pc wouldn't go past the xp loading screen? The hard drive whirs as it normally does and then stops and the blue bar just keeps going by. Now admitedly it was late so I didn't leave it load for too long but nothing seemed to be happening. I tried to boot in safe mode and that booted up fine. I haven't had a chance at driver reinstallation but was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what else might be wrong.... I'm concerned maybe the GFX card has gone kaput given it will boot in safe mode fine but not in normal mode.... Well I'm not that worried.... truth be told I was looking for an excuse to upgrade it, but any ideas on what might be wrong and where to look when I get home to troubleshoot would be welcomed.

    Cheers,

    CL


Comments

  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    If you can boot into safe mode, I'd suggest doing a thorough scandisk.


  • #3
    The Muppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    you could also restore back past yesterdays troubles too but it does sound like a hardware issue.


  • #4
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Khannie wrote:
    If you can boot into safe mode, I'd suggest doing a thorough scandisk.


    yup will do.... I'm just surprised cos I haven't had a "turn it off it's fine, turn it back on it's broke" sort of experience since I threw Win98 out the window a couple of years back.


  • #5
    GinjaNinja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭GinjaNinja


    I've gone through a similar experience
    First things first. How I solved it

    Go into BIOS and turn off all parrellel/serial ports that are not in use. actually for the first time turn them all off.
    Try to boot into Windows.
    NEXT
    Your RAM. That part of the XP bootup is synonous with RAM problems.
    Take one RAM out of the slot try boot up, basically test the RAM.

    let me know how this goes.

    there are a couple other thing but see how you get one first


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