Aside from the surge itself, what other negative effects could arise from experiencing an outage while multiple programs are open and running? For example, if I lost power while regedit was open, could it change or possibly cause damage the registry itself? The machine in question is currently running Win 7 SP1 64-bit.
View 6 RepliesBut recently i got caught up in some work that i used my PC for about 12 hours everyday for almost a week.Recently my PC seems to be hanging.It runs properly in the start up and doesnt hang there.But as soon as i start a video or open some other programs it starts to hang.suspecting my programs might be corrupted i reinstalled my programs but no use.also wen i run two programs simultaneously both of them hangs and processes slowly than normal.i checked my temp and it shows 60 C in my bios setup.I am running a windows 7 32 bitultimate.AMD athlon II X4 630 2.8ghzKingston RAM 2 gbN vidia 1 GB Graphics cardASUS motherboard M2N68-AM SE2
View 9 Replies View RelatedI had a power outage a few days ago and went to turn on my pc again and it is telling me to install a OS cause now there is no OS so i tryed to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of windows 7 64 bit but partition any of the 3 wont install on it and it tells me its the wrong format on one and i cannot change it..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI made the huge mistake of booting my custom built machine during a storm and as luck would have it, the only time that the power was lost (for about 2 seconds) occurred at that time. Now my machine will not boot. Startup repair comes up and tells me that it could not find the problem and I must shut down. I have tried restoring, mem tests, hard drive tests, reseting my mobo to failsafe settings, booting from the windows 7 recovery disk, booting off of the original windows 7 install disk, forcefully kicking it and crying. Nothing has worked, however. No matter what method I use, even when successfully completed, I am still faced with the startup repair error. I built the PC myself, so I'm not a complete fool when it comes to computers.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am hooked up to a UPS, but after that runs out and I am away, I sometimes need to remotely logon - in which case I need the computer on. If I need to change something in the BIOS, please give specifics of how to do this as I have looked in there and found nothing related to this.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis HP computer is running Windows 7 - 64 Professional, version 6.1, build 7601 Service Pack 1. The last time I had a normal start up was last Saturday after turning off all the computers and unplugging due to thunderstorm activity in the area. Yesterday morning, Sunday, we had 4-5 momentary power outages where the electricity pretty much flickered a few times, then stayed on. This computer did start up, but the start up process took approx 20 minutes.
I restored the computer to 3 days prior with no noticeable difference, ran defrag with no noticeable difference, and ran chkdsk, which did make a difference. The 1st start after the chkdsk was a normal quick start, then subsequent starts take approx 3-4 minutes, so it has slowed down again, but not near as bad as the original problem. The start up goes as follows:
1.) The normal Blue HP start up screen for approx 20 seconds, then,
2.) The windows graphic with the changing colored "windows" on the black background, then,
3.) a completely black screen for approx 2-3 minutes with minimal flashing of the HDD light, then
4.) proceed to Welcome to Windows screen where everything loads and the HDD light is pretty much steady. Within 30-40 seconds of getting to this point the normal desktop is up, icons are loaded, and computer is ready to use.
My step 3 noted above - the black screen, is usually 15-20 seconds max, so it seems whatever the hangup is is occuring during that time. After the start up is complete everything works normally. There isn't any abnormal use of memory or CPU usage.
There was a quick power outage and the computer was forced off. I rebooted and now after the windows logo there is a gray screen that remains a very long period of time before the desktop appears. I am able to move the mouse but that is the only functionality I have.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been having a serious issue with my PC. The PC will boot up without incident, but if I try to access explorer or the OS, it will slow to a crawl and eventually freeze. I have encountered this with firefox, the start menu, and when trying to access the task manager. The problem is consistent, occuring everytime I start the machine. Usually within the first few minutes of a boot-up, Windows has frozen and I must force a hard reset.
The only thing I can think of which may be the cause is a power outage which occured in the night. When I woke up, the PC was off and the problem began as soon as I booted up. The PC was plugged into a power strip which was not tripped by the outage.
I can boot up in Safe Mode, which delays the onset of the crash, but doesn't stop it. I have tried using system restore by accessing the menu during start-up (F8) but the system restore always fails at the very end. Looking at the inside of the PC, there doesn't seem to be any visible damage (that I can detect) and at no points does anything seem to be giving off any excess heat.
When I press CTRL+ALT+DEL in an attempt to access the task manager, the screen goes black and the cursor turns to a wheel. After several minutes, the wheel will stop and a prompt will appear stating "The logon process was unable to display security and logon options when CTRL+ALT+DELETE was pressed. If the operating system does not respond, press ESC or restart the computer by using the power switch."
Computer frozen on restore systems after power outage. I cannot use disc 2 reboot - all keyboard actions frozen. All I want to know is - would I have lost what's on my hard drive and how to be able 2 get it running again.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI had power outage reboot backgroud went back to default and so did the quick launch menu also some of my games act like i never played them before and have to re setup resolution and settings. Did some widows file get corrupt why did this happen?
View 6 Replies View RelatedYesterday, there was a short power outage which caused my computer to force shut down. When I turned it on, the screen resolution was off, so I managed to fix it by hardware (the auto button on my monitor) since software-based fixing didn't work (which has managed to solve this problem in the past, at least I think it was the same problem). Anyway, after I did this, the icons were strange; bigger than usual, not e.g. 128x128 but rather 140x128 (that isn't the exact size but they were higher than they were wide). This is quite annoying. The circular icons have become ovals and the square icons have become rectangular. By the way, the same thing has, I think, happened to the taskbar as well. It's harder to tell with things other than icons, but it's visible. So basically, everything is slightly higher than wider than it should be, not only the icons.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am hooked up to a UPS, but when that runs out and I am away, I sometimes need to be able to remotely logon to my computer. Is there a way to get the BIOS to automatically restart the computer after the UPS runs out when the power goes out?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI literally just built this today and was able to enjoy a very fast boot up speed with wim7 64-bit installed on my ssd drive but the power cable of course found a way to get unplugged from the wall and now the it takes an extra 20-30 seconds in order t boot up (at the "windows starting" ) screen. Right after I turned it back on the computer wanted to go into system repair and then it reset the pc to the back up that I had just set,
Is there anything I can do in order to get it too boot up like it was at first?
As I shutdown/restart my laptop, I notice it switches to a secondary desktop that has been running programs.A good example would be trying to open my Task Manager, I can Ctrl-Alt-Del and it will allow me to open Task Manager - however when I click on Task Manager, it opens on the Desktop running in the background. I can't even access the Desktop in the background, it only shows up as I'm shutting down - closing programs that I tried opening awhile ago.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new computer and it crashes every time i do multiple tasks or play a game.
Here's my spec:
Intel Core I5 2320 3.0GHz LGA1155 BOX (BX80623I52320)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2GB 11200-14-20G
SSD OCZ Agility4 Series 128GB SATA3 2.5'' (AGT4-25SAT3-128G) 128 GB XFX Core 550W 120mm 80+ (P1-550S-XXB9)
Good Ram DDR3 4096MB PC1333 CL9 (GR1333D364L9/4G)
Asus DRW-24B5ST SATA CZARNY (DRW-24B5ST/BLK/G/AS) ASRock B75 Pro3-M
Following power failure, my HP Pavilian tried rebooting, but was interrupted due to multiple power failures. On next full reboot, it went to BSOD when I logged into my Windows profile. On subsequent reboot, Windows offered to do a system restore. I restored it to a previous date. After that restore, the computer would allow me to open my profile, but went to BSOD when I tried to open Outlook. I am now operating in "safe mode with networking" but perepherals (e.g., scanner) and some applications (e.g., Outlook) do not work. Files from SF Diagnostic are attached.
System Info:
HP p6240f
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz 2.49GHz; 64 Bit.
In bios (I have ASUS mb P5Q SE Plus) i can setup the pc to automatically power on at 1 certain time, does anyone know if its possible at all to setup more than 1 autopower on time either through bios or some application (free)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to be able to use 2 networks at the same time, one is a wireless internet connection through my USB adapter, and the other is a wired Ethernet connection to separate router, which i use to connect to a Playstation 3 with Playstation Media Server. Frequently I am wanting to download a video from the internet while watching a different one on the PS3. he problem is when I connect both networks, I am unable to use the internet.nd what I have learned.
1. I made sure that the two networks have very different IP addresses and Default Gateways.
2. I have tried to change the priorities of the networks through Control Panel>Network and Internet>Network and Sharing Center>Change Adapter Settings. Then right clicking the connections, clicking Properties, clicking both Internet Protocol Properties (one at a time), clicking Advanced, un-checking Automatic metric, and placing my own values. Obviously i set the wireless to the lowest priority and the wired higher.
3. Also in the Network Connections list, pressing Alt, clicking Advanced, then clicking Advanced Settings; I set the order of the connections, wireless first, then wired.
(Also I did reboot the system after trying each thing)Going to command prompt and typing "netstat -rp", under Interface List I am shown the metric priorities of network devices.It seems no matter how I try changing priorities or access orders or anything, those values do not change. I am thinking if the priority of the wireless adapter was first, I would be able to use the internet while connected to both networks, and still be able to stream to the PS3 through the wired connection.
Fo the last few days, Internet explorer stops working all of the time. When this happens, no desktop icons work. Sometimes, I can use task manager to shut down instances of iexplore.exe*32 and it works again for a while. Sometimes, I am not allowed to close the instances with task manager as it says operationdenied.Malwarebytes returns 0 issues. I tried MS safety scanner and that also found nothing.I assume there is a virus or trojan at work here but I really don't know what else to do
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently got another different BlueScreen, with an older not resolved. I got two BCodes, 0x000000c2 and 0x0000005a. I ran 'chk dsk /f' and ' sfc /scannow' and got no errors. Latest BSOD Earlier BSOD
- x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate
- the original installed OS on the system? Not originally installed. - an OEM or full retail version? Retail. - What is the age of system (hardware)? 2 months. - What is the age of OS installation 2 months. I attached 'Windows_NT6_BSOD_jcgriff2' and 'perfmon.html' below.
Anyone noticed that IE8 runs multiple iexplore.exe in Task Manager?
And by the way did you notice IE8 behaves differently in that respect when installed on WindowsXP as opposed to Windows 7?
WindowsXP copies of iexplore can use up to 50,000K and every copy uses quite a bit of memory.
Windows 7 copies of iexplore only use about 5-15K.
While using IE8 in WindowsXP I thought I had a malware program running by it using so much memory and exhausted myself trying to run all kinds of scans to root out the offending program only to realize it was IE8 itself. When I uninstalled IE8 and went back to IE7, the behavior stopped.
Just something interesting that might save others the frantic search to root out adware. I suppose the bottom line is DO NOT USE IE8 on WinXP.
I have microsoft win 7 enterprise edition with intel core 2 4400 2.0 gh processor w/ 2 gigs ram I checked the task manager for processes that take alot of processing power. One process stood out in the crowd svchost.exe description is host process for windows services located in c/windows/system32
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View 9 Replies View Relatedi have Outlook 2007 pinned to my taskbar. i have notification behavior set to Hide icon and notifications. I have Outlook set to Hide When Minimized.k, so, whenever i want to see Outlook, i simply click the pinned shortcut on taskbar. when i want to hide it, i click the same icon, and it disappears and goes back to the small pinned icon form. i repeat if i want to see outlook again.... however! doing this, i noticed that each time i click the pinned icon, it is loading a new instance of Outlook 2007.i realized this when i saw the notifications area, and realized there were multiple Outlook 2007 windows available. (right clickign the notifications icon displays the "Open Outlook" button, not as a link, but as a menu.)how can i prevent taskbar from loading multiple instances?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have high DPCs when the POWER service is running. If I turn it off, the DPCs go back to normal. Why? What is this trying to run that is causing this?OK, U can't tell. How can I troubleshoot this now that I know the culprit?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter switching from win xp to win 7 I decided on installing a good graphic card on my compaq presario SR1135cl so I got me a ATI radeon HD4670 1024mb agp card now my issue is while the card is installed the computer will not power up when I removed the card the comp power fine what do you think is going on?
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