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Big Al Goomba                   Since: 11-19-05 From: New Jersey, USA Last post: 6339 days Last view: 6325 days |
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Hey, I'm really stuck now! My friend gave me her old computer and I reinstalled the CD of Windows XP that it came with. It's a 256 RAM 1.6Ghz processor 40GB Drive with XP, which beats my 128 RAM 400Mhz 10GB Windows 98 computer. So everything worked fine until it failed to start up sometimes. It would freeze up on the Dell logo for like a minute and then prompt for the system password. So I got a new hard drive for it changing the capacity from 40GB to 80GB which made it stop freezing up at startup. I formatted it to NTFS format and put in the XP cd the computer came with. The instructions said to format the drive to NTFS and put in the OS cd in which I did, but now when I start it up. It says that Windows cannot read the registry and it reboots in about half a second. I couldn't read everything the evil blue screen says cuz it just flickered and rebooted. Any suggestions? Thanks for your concern!!  |
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Chaos Force Just drifting by...  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6304 days Last view: 6300 days |
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Could be a fried wire. I had something simalar happen to mine a while back. Open it up and check your wires, make sure nothing burnt  |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6299 days |
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Originally posted by Big Al Disable "Automatic Restart on Error" to read the BSOD. To do that, go to Control Panel->System. Click Advanced Tab. Under "Startup and Recovery," click "Settings". Under "System failure", uncheck "Automatically restart" |
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||bass Administrator  Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6299 days |
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Originally posted by neotransotaku................................................................................Originally posted by Big Al Because the fact the computer DOESN'T BOOT shouldn't present a problem with opening the control panel. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6299 days |
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Well do that when you get it fixed, so next time something happens, you'll be able to read it. 
It might be worth checking the power supply. A dying PSU can do odd things. I had one that would cause the RAM to fail with certain HDDs (and others just didn't work). It became obvious when the power LED stopped coming on.  |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| You should get a bootdisk-based ram tester. | |||
drizzt do'urden Red Paragoomba Since: 12-08-05 From: Oregon Last post: 6698 days Last view: 6698 days |
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| Could also mean that one of your CD-roms could be bad, ive had a few problems with a CD-rom shorting out or somthing causeing my computer not to boot up. | |||
Boom.dk Since: 11-18-05 From: Denmark Last post: 6317 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if you continously hit F8 after the beep (after which the OS loads) the Windows Boot Loader will appear. From there you should be able to access a menu with some advanced boot options. One of the options, as far as I remember, is to disable automatic restart on bluescreen. |
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