pc of mine, broken

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:34 pm

All it does is get to the windows loading screen and then restart. I thought XP might be corrupted, so I popped in the XP disc (which is supposed to boot up) with no results. what could the problem be? wii posting is tough...

dshacker · Post by **dshacker** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:39 pm

well did you goto your bios and change the boot to cd rom first, then hd, after that, restart the computer and pop in the xp disk, after that, it should say, boot from cd rom, from there you could just format the drive then partition it, and if none of that works, like if it goes to the boot up screen, then just restart the computer again and it should go to the cd key thing to boot from cd, after that, you can reinstall windows again after formating and makeing the partition. And if none of that works, just try going to safe mode and do a system restore

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:08 pm

tried all that to no avail

Monsterbox · Post by **Monsterbox** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:06 pm

Is it the CD you used to originally install the Operating System? I managed to convince myself that my system was hosed but the truth of the matter ended up being that the disc wasn't set to auto-run. I don't know how that happens, but it wouldn't boot in other systems as well.

I ended up burning a new copy of the disc and it worked out just fine. Maybe check that the disc is good by booting to set-up on another computer? (You can exit without damaging the other machine.)

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:04 am

So, the CD won't start up at boot? *shrug* Just get yourself a boot-disk. Hope you still have some floppies left-over from 10 years ago.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:55 pm

Alright, so I SORTA fixed the problem. I got the XP disc to load, but then it did the exact same thing it did when it was loading XP off the hardrive... flashed some screen, then restarted. Thus, the motherboard must be restarting. Thus, I got a new computer because pretty much everything about the old one sucked anyways. thus, my hardrive recently went from 19 gigs to 366 gigs. Thus, I went from 512 mb of RAM to 2 gigs of RAM. I also now have video caputure and tv recording (and watching, but I already had a tv...) ability. Also, Vista home premium-not too bad.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:31 pm

Thus... how much could I buy your old one off you for? And what kind of CPU does it have?