yesterday i turned on my PC and black screen appeared saying that windows couldn't find "windows/system" folder. then I installed Windows XP, first it worked fine but today the black screen appeared again saying the same. I have no idea what's wrong with it.
View 5 RepliesEach time I start my computer, the mouse shows up. But it doesn't do anything.I checked at Device Drivers and there I got this message after checking USB Mouse's properties:"The Drivers for this device are not installed. (code )."Then I clicked on Update driver but it didn't find any solution.The Laser light is showing up beneath the USB mouse each time I start my PC but the Cursor isn't responding at allI'm using Windows , bit version.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using acer laptop,intel Pentium processor,windows7 professional os,my problem is windows is not starting normally and is running safe-mode.when entering normal mode it is displaying "welcome" after entering password "Please wait",it takes a long time to starting window and i'm waiting more than 24 hours but its not starting window normally...but it starting safe mode.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHaving an issue with windows 7. I few days I ago it starting just randomly rebooting. Then on reboots it started going to a black screen.I ran my dell diognoatics and it says all the hard ware is ok. Popped in my win 7 disk and ran my startup repair.Now windows 7 is loading, but now of the desktop icons responds. If I hover the arrow over the windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen, I just get the spinning blue icon? Nothing responds.Can I reinstalling wimdows without it deleting my c drive? Running win 7 home n a dell xps 8300.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed poweriso and magicdisc on my computer then I rebooted but windows started to hang at shutdown so I just forced a shutdown, now windows is hanging up upon restart and the same happens for safe mode. I'm thinking the problem might be magicdisc cause it said drivers were not found and safe mode was hanging around the loading drivers part or that I made a virtual drive.
Also I'm attempting to do a system repair via windows disc
Edit: Windows repair just finished and the problem signature was
Problem event name: startuprepairoffline
Problem signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03: unknown
[Code]....
i have a problem with its starting,it has been installed properly and works perfect when there is windows cd in its cd rom,otherwise it does not start and says operating system not found.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop and I cannot get it to start. When I go into start-up mode (Esc key at start-up) I have two options:
Start-up Repair (Recommend)
Normal Start-up
When I do Normal Start-up, it lockes up on the Windows Screen. When I do Start-up Repair it locks up on a black screen.I don't have the back-up discs that were created for this specific computer at the moment (they are at another location at the moment). However I do have Windows 7 upgrade discs here from another computer.
It started with me interrupting a startup forcefully (which I now regret badly), then "i restarted it, but it gave me the information;"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause". I was given the option to either 'Launch startup repair' or 'Start windows normally'...If I select 'Launch startup repair', it leads me to a blank screen with a cursor then stays there until forever, if i select 'Start windows normally', it leads me to the Microsoft logo/'Starting windows' and just stays there for a while until it restarts." However, after the microsoft logo, I can see the screen changing for a split second, I can't see what it shows clearly a blue screen?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have windows 7 already installed on my pc but i also want to install xp and for xp i went to bios and turn ahci to native ide but when i try open windows 7 in ide the windows is not booting then i launched startup repair no use is there any way to work windows 7 on ide without reinstalling it on ide ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed Windows 7 (x64)/(x86) on my PC a while back without any problems at all. Now lately, when I start the computer up for the first time, it just wont start. Turn my monitor on and it says "No signal". I can only get the computer to boot up when i do several restart button pushes,So I figured it might be the video card drivers that are problematic and I installed the newest ones that I found from the official site(my graphics card is an XFX 9800GT). It didn't help, maybe relieved the problem a bit but I haven't really noticed it. I've opened the computer case up and tryed to push the Graphics card into the PCi slot further,is this a hardware or a software problem? :S I tryed searching for fixes for this but I got bored of searching too fast so I made this thread I'd like to get a quick fix, it's taking me 5-15 minutes to start up the computer every time, it's bad when I might be in a hurry someday
View 5 Replies View RelatedEvery time I start my computer it scans the hard drive before starting and takes 10-20 minutes, this has happened since it crashed yesterday, I think it is a problem with missing files.
How do I fix the files that cause the problem and cause it to need to do a scan?
I have scanned using the scan before startup and the windows scan (the one that requires restart)
if I try to boot it normally it gets blue screen and dies. The same thing happends if I use fail safe. (crashed at crcdisk)So I thought idd reinstall it. However when i boot up from my windows cd, I only get the 2 possibilities to "setup and recovery". No matter which of those I choose it goes to "loading files" and then to "starting windows".I've reinstalled quite a few computers, with xp and windows 7, and I've never had any trouble doing so. So i thought idd try to take out the hdd manually, but I realised I dont have the cables to connect it to my other pc, and clean the hdd that way.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I start Windows 7 64 I get 3 boot options. Windows 72. Windows 7 (recovered)3.Windown 7 (recovered)The first 2 are both dead and I would like to know how to make them go away. I used the start up disk it shows all 3 options but the first 2 it says that there is 0kb in both files and that only the 3rd oprion has any info in it
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View 1 Replies View RelatedThe power in southern california today and when it came back on my computer wouldnt boot all the way to windows. I have tried booting fromt he cd but it does the same thing and just stays at the splash screen. I have tried recovery mode and it sticks at the windows is loading files bar. Safe mode doesnt work either as it sticks at one file and stays there the entire time.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI had just put this build together and occasionally when I boot up the computer, it would freeze at "Starting Windows" screen and will not go anywhere else until I hard shutdown the computer and boot it back up and hope it doesn't get stuck again.I reinstalled Windows 7 thinking it's the new SSD I bought but the problem still occurs, I also ran CHKDSK again and no errors have shown up.I haven't ran a memory test program yet to check my RAM but I don't think that is the issue since I do not get BSOD of any kind.I also have another problem that rarely occurs and only happens when watching you tube videos, the screen completely friezes and artifacts show up as if the video card is broken but I never have such problems while playing video games such as BF3 and Starcraft II.Anyhow, I have searched Tomshardware and the web but still cannot find a solution to this and I hope you guys can help me find what the problem is.I'm beginning to question my RAM, Motherboard, or SSD at this moment.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I boot up Windows 7 it gets to the "Starting Windows" screen which includes the Windows Logo with some animation. Once there it just hangs for about 5 minutes, then starts normally.I have Home Premium, 64 Bit, Dell XPS, Intel i7, 6BG of memory. I have several peripherals connected directly to it: Display, USB External Drive, Webcam, Bluetooth adapter.I tested booting in Safe Mode and it was very fast with no delay.I don't restart Windows 7 often so not 100% sure of when this really began. After the install booting up was very very fast. So this happened over the last month or so.The only hardware item I would mention is a Realtek card/usb reader which is built in to my unit as part of it. After Win 7 install it did not work at all and it took quite a while including working with Dell to finally track down the appropriate drivers. Now the unit works fine but I believe the problem began around that incident.Prior to uninstall or disabling the item I just wanted to check and see if this problem has been seen and make sure I am not going to do something to simply create a new problem. Also, since it was so difficult to finally get this Card Reader up and running I am concerned about just uninstalling it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've got a: Presario CQ62 notebook pc with a AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual Core processor, and I can't get past the start up screen with the "starting windows" animation. It will show part of the animation then simply hang. I have a very bad battery but am keeping the computer plugged in. When I attempt a system recovery it says: "A disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart" I've tried this many times and I get the same message each time. Beyond that I have no idea what to try.
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy Windows 7 is not starting up on my HP Pavilion dv7-3160us. I tried startup repair, and this is the message i received:''startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically" problem evemt name: startup repair offline.Problem signature01and02:6.1.7600.16385 problem signatre 03: unknown. 04: 344.05: autofailover. 06: 1. 07: bad disk.
View 2 Replies View RelatedEverytime I start up i get this annoying screen:
1. How do I removed this from my startup
I have set my msconfig right:
and i also did disable here:
What the **** is wrong!
I am running Win 7 64 bit and would like to start in Safe Mode to run a security scan. The problem My keyboard is bluetooth so there is no way I can restart and push F8 and get an option for Safe Mode prior to Windows starting up in normal mode. I understand this can be done from the command prompt and am willing to try but I am not really an advanced user.
Worked like a charm. Yes, MalwareBytes and Security Essentials.
Im running win 7 and IE 9 and im having problems starting programs and browsers.When i click on a browser nothing happens and i have to dbl click several times to get it to open.Then I have to wait a long time for it to load the home page. I have 4 browsers on my computer and the worst ones are IE 9 and firefox 4I replaced IE 9 a few days ago and it greatly improvedbut now it has reverted.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI seem to have a odd issue with my laptop. Sometimes when i boot into windows there would be a blank screen with a mouse cursor after the starting windows screen. I would have to wait for approximately 5 minutes for it to show up my logon screen. I've been having this issue since the start of the year and have attempted to solve it but they have been unsuccessful. Things i've tried:Reformat Windows (Did it 4 times)Purchasing a SSDReduced the start-up items(barely any)?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have been struggling with this for some time so I will try to describe everything I've done to date. I have: Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit The hardware is under 2 years old. I have recently re-installed the OS but the trouble predates that. Since last June, I have been receiving BSOD's after the Post but during Starting Windows screen.They all seem to revolve around "ntoskrnl.exe" and my WhoCrashed program has consistently indicated its a driver issue. So I started peeling back the layers.I took out the SLI'd second video card. Still happened, I uninstalled Norton, still happened. I ran the RAM diagnostic tool, everything came back clean. It hit a spike recently and I RMA'd my motherboard. That was a week ago. I installed Windows on a brand new hard drive to mitigate variables. It worked great for 2 days then today, BAM, my first BSOD since the rebuild. This BSOD is consistent with the ones I was receiving before the rebuild. It seems to be random, I can go a week with no BSOD, and then BSOD repeatedly for the next several days. I'm slowly being driven insane little by little. I have used the UniBlue driver scanner and it tells me everything is up to date except for the Marvell Driver which is a raid controller and a controller that I have nothing plugged into. I did not install that this most recent build. Could it be a RAM problem? A BIOS issue? I am not a pro at the BIOS configuration but it doesn't "feel" like that's the problem since it consistently boots, etc.Anyway, I put myself at the forum's mercy.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently, I've been getting a lot of BSODs and I've been trying to find what may cause them. I used the Device Manager and disabled a couple of devices. I've probably disabled a necessary device, and now when I'm booting my PC, it's getting to the point when it shows the Windows 7 logo, and then restarts, and so it gets into an endless restart loop.I then pressed F8 to try get into Safe Mode, but Safe Mode is not working as well. So I then pressed F8 when starting Windows again and chose "Disable automatic restart on system failure" to see what error code is being thrown. It shows the following: Code: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (...) Unfortunately I don't think I can get dump file because Windows is not working at all, but I have a very good assumption that I disabled a critical device in the Device Manager. Here is the list of devices that I've disabled: Code: Acronis Backup Archive Explorer Floppy disk drive (don't have any floppy disk drive)Standard floppy disk controller (same thing as above)High Definition Audio Device PCI bus (*I think the problem is here and is related to the on-board graphics card. I think It's an Intel graphics or something like this.) My question is: is there any way to somehow enable this PCI bus device from anywhere?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIf the computer has been on for an hour or so windows freezes 9 of 10 times when starting a new application. No matter which app it is, it can be Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, After Effects, Spotify or even a simple jpg/targa picture in any program. But just after rebooting everything works fine for about an hour or two, it's then the problem starts. And it doesn't freeze always, sometimes the computer can be on for a couple of days without rebooting and I start any application normally, but that happen like 1 of 10 times. I'm running the latest drivers for the graphics card, mobo, mouse/keyboard and I've even tried with older drivers for the components but the problem still remains.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to change the background image that displays during boot before it gets to the login screen?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy windows started to crash ... when I open Some games .. Like Dragon nest , need for speed , 2 RO clients .. etc ... my pc crash when I open i always went black out but I can still hear the sound coming from my Pc
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy laptop decided not to start up today. It shut down last night normally, today it keeps getting stuck on "starting window". I tried safe mode, but it gets stuck at starting windows. I tried starting from disk, it says loading files then it goes start to the starting windows and gets stuck. I tried pressing f8 but there is no repair computer option. Did my ssd die?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using my iPhone to try to figure out my computer. So it is the only one I have. It is in a constant loop of windows not starting and trying to fix errors then says it can't, I can't get it to load in safe mode or anything else. I can use the box where u put in commands and found my registry hive says 0 bytes. I do not know how to fix this. And I do not have a windows disk cause it came already installed. So how can I fix this and what do I need to do or try.
I do have a Windows 7 product key on the back of my computer.