I was using my computer one day when i had been playing a game.I took out the game cd so i could start using different cd for something else but strangely i went to my computer and it still showed the game cd as being in the drive. I thought well no problem ill just restart the computer and it should be fine. I did, and when i logged in, a new problem. All of my desktop was missing, and it had been loading for a few minutes so i just cut it off again and turned it back on in hope that it would finally work correctly. Instead, the opposite happened When i turned it back on for the 2nd time, it went to the screen where it says "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully." So, i have the option of choosing safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with command prompt, last good configuration, or normally. Unfortunately, not a single one of them work.
I believe its a problem with the actual start up button instead of the computer itself, ive pried the thing open, seeing the generator is on, everythings in place and there are lights on, showing there is power. any ideas?
Im new, so bear with me please. The problem is on my old Sony Viao Model PCG-6H4L XP. I wanted to start fresh and the recovery system for windows gives me only a limited number of dates. I thought that the Viao recovery would do the job.I was wrong. I haven't checked recent forums about problems with this, so I went ahead and broke my laptop. Before the Recovery system starts, my laptop says, with a black background.
I have an older somputer I use to Host Games online...seemed fine last few nite .however the last 2 oe 3 times I have started it...it takes forever to start and a screen appears saying sorry for any inconveinince but windows could not start..etc etc..gives options to start in Normal mode safe mode or last known good configuration..wich is what I tried after turning it off and back on again..still nothing..I can get it to start in safe mode....but it wont boot up in normal mode..just hangs at "Windows XP" screen...Its an older Pentium4 Dell Dimension4300.
I am new to this form, so I guess I will just start. I have a,Dell Dimesion p4 2.5 ghz or close?windows XP service pac 2.I use it mostly for college papers and the internet. no gaming.It's about two years old, always do the windows updates.Three days ago my computer was running great. Then for whatever reason it just shut off by itself. I started it back up, it was fine for about 1 day then it shut down. I tried to start it again, but, to no avail.I got a screen that had rows of color bars with numbers in them.I opened up the box, it was pretty dusty, so I cleaned it up.I started to resolve the problem by checking to see if the ram was bad. I took one bar out and tried to restart after each ram chip. the result was the dell logo comes on tries to start no more color bars ( the fan starts out fine then takes off real fast) then it shuts (all power) down. I try, when I power on to tap the f8 key, or f12 key to get into the bios it shuts down befor anything can happen. I think that is it. I want to thank anyone for there time in helping me resolve this problem.
I have two computers with "issues", and now it's gotten so bad, I just need to get them sorted out. This is "my" desktop. I don't think I have had a thread on it before. But my daughter uses it for school and surfing and I have a feeling where my kids surf, it's infecting our computers.
A few years ago, we had a hard drive on the family computer replaced.At that time, we could turn on the computer, and do everything we normally could.However, it was extremely slow, due to a virus.Best Buy simply recommended a replacement, since the computer was out of warranty.Yesterday I get the bright idea to try that harddrive on my personal computer, not the one it came from. I figured if it only had a virus on it, I could reformat it, and just use it as extra space.So I hook it up, and turn on my computer.The Compaq screen pops up, and goes away.Then a new screen pops up saying that the Hard Drive Failure was imminent, and I should back up my files, and replace the harddrive. That was not the error which I had received a few years ago. It gives me the option to hit F1 for setup, or hit F2 to continue. The F1 key simply took me to the Bios. So I hit F2, and my bootloader booted up. (Ubuntu Linux bootloader with Windows XP. However, I'm thinking about ditching Ubuntu, as I never use it.) However, it was so slow, I wasn't about to continue. After waiting for about 2 minutes, I decided to turn my computer off, disconnect the HD I was installing, and just go back to the old way I had it.(That part of the bootloader should load in about 3 seconds when everything is working fine.)So I turn off my computer, disconnect the power, and rehook everything up as it was before. I turn it back on, and it was as if the old hard drive is still in there.
Every time I try to start my computer (Running Windows XP) it seems to do fine until just before it reaches the log-on screen. A blue screen flashes really fast that says something to the effect of "Physical Memory Dumped". It flashes to fast for me to read it completely, but that's the jist of it. After the flashing screen the computer restarts and continues in that loop.I tried a start up disk from another computer but that didn't do anything.
Im running windows xp Last night I made the mistake of simply unplugging the computer Now, When I turn it on, it says windows did not shut down properly Safe mode safe mode with networking safe mode command prompt last settings that worked start normally I can pick any of them, and when I do, the windows XP splash comes up, the blue bar scrolls for a bit, a blue screen with writing flashes very fast and it restarts all over again I also allowed it to count down the 25 seconds or whatever, its just a big loop
I have a toshiba laptop. It was working fine. I think my daughter shut it down wrong. Now it opens to the menu to select Normal, Safe Mode, etc. No matter what I pick it begins to start, gets past the Windows logo screen and then a blue screen flashes up and it restarts before you can ever read the letters on the blue screen. It just keeps cycling. Will not start. I am on XP sp2. Can't tell much else since I cannot even figure out how to get it started. I have removed the battery for 5 minutes and pulled the power cord.
I did a restore and all went well except now "My Computer" loads at start-up. I've spent considerable time researching this and have checked numerous settings and tried numerous suggested fixes to no avail.
I just finished building a computer, and I installed Windows XP Home on it (SP2). Everything runs and works just fine, except I cannot start the computer without the Windows XP CD in the tray. It says, "Boot from CD:" and then, "boot disk failure, please insert a system disk and hit enter." This cannot have anything to do with the mainboard's BIOS, I think, because I tried disabling everything but booting from the harddrive, yet I still get that error message. Windows XP is paid for and activated, of course. I can boot up just fine if I have the XP CD in the tray, but that can be a serious irritation and I know that it is NOT supposed to work that way. Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem?
my Computer is slow to start up.[5 minutes] I am running XP professional with sp2 and all of the sudden when I first start it up it has the welcome screen.after going pass that the computer running perfectly
where do i start.I don't know if this is a virus or hardware/software issues or what, but when i start up my computer, it works for a varied length of time, before i get a BSoD(i will post the error when i get the comp to turn on). When i try to restart, it will either freeze at a random point or i will get a message saying to insert proper boot disk and restart the computer. This continues to happen unless i wait about half an hour before turning it on. but of course when it boots up, the cycle continues. I'll post a dxdiag and error messages/ screenshots when i get it to turn on again
Well I just normally restarted my computer and when I did I got this message. Everytime I try to restart I get this message that wondows did not start properly and I tried all of them nothing work's and I didn't get the Windows XP cd D:It's a Compaq Presario Desktop.
My computer was shut down unexpectantly by a power outage. When I turned it back on, it stated that Windows did not start successfully & to choose one of the options: Safe Mode ~ Safe Mode with Networking ~ Safe Mode with Command Prompt ~ Last Known Configuration ~ & Start Windows Normally. At the bottom of the screen it counts down until you choose an option ... unless the time runs out, then it tries automatically to start up. None of the options worked though. Everytime, the computer starts to run, then the Gateway Logo screen shows up, the computer make a "grunting" sound, & it goes back to the screen telling me that windows did not start up successfully.
Just about the start button you usually will see printer, Internet connection, search & help. Help has disappeared from the listing on my PC. I can still access help if I go to the left hand side box in my Computer. How do I restore it to where it belongs?
For Almost 3 Weeks Now And Getting Worse, When I Shutdown My Computer At night And In The Morning When I Turn It On, Is Extremely Difficult To Get My Computer To Start Up, I've Tried Unplugging Electrical Cords SEveral Times,Waiting Awhile, It takes About An Hour And Half To get it to finally Turn On, When it Finally Turns On,It Boots Up Perfectly As Always, This Problem Has Been Happening Lately Only When I Start It Up in the morning, I Don't think it is the motherboard as If it we're then the computer wouldn't start up at all
When I turn on my compuiter it goes to a blue screen and says that a problem has occurred with my computer and that the computer will not operate because it may lose important data. It tells me that if this is the first time then to restart the computer but if this is happening on additional times then to contact someone. It talks about an BIODS (I think that is the initals). Then sometimes it will go to the startup screen but will not show any of my shortcut icons. While waiting several minutes for the shortcut icons to load it goes back to the blue screen that I just mentioned. My operating system is Windows 2000 and I have Norton Antivirus loaded on this computer.
IF MY PRINTER IS ON (HP PSC 1350 ALL IN ONE) & I turn my computer on My computer freezes. i never makes it to windows. I have to power off my printer then turn my computer on and at that all is ok.
Ive got this really annoying pop up that comes on when i switch on my PC (Windows XP)It's one of those long thin ones with 4 boxes ..insurance ,pharmacy.etc.It can be closed but i cant get rid of it.When i right click to find out where it's located nothing happens so i don't know what to try next?.I've run Spybot,Ad-Aware,Microsoft Beta,AVG,Mcafee but none of them seem to be able to pick up on it ?This comes on even when i'm not on the internet.
How can I remove windows xp off my computer when I can't even get to the start up? Someone downloaded a dell windowsxp to my gateway computer the last I knew it was windows 98 .Now it comes up windows xp and ask for registering and etc I have no numbers to put in and if I say no it shuts down and I can't get to the main screen to go to start up?
I have installed alot of software, hardware, and networking stuff in my computer. Now I am having random rebooting. I checked the event logs and there are save dumps at the time of reboot as follows: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000008, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xba60891b).
as the title says my computer takes forever to start. It is a new installation of Windows XP Home as supplied by my Laptop Manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens. I have all the recent updates but this hasn't helped. From day one of the installation it has taken around 2 minutes to start. I have checked for Spyware with Adaware and Spybot and Destroy. I have ran Trend Housecall Anti-Virus online scanner and Panda Online Anti-Virus and nothing. My resident Anti-Virus software is Nod32 and it has detected nothing.I have followed so many guides to try and speed things up but it hasnt done anything. The only things starting up are the virus scanner, freepops(for my Hotmail account) and my synaptics keypad. I have tried disabling them all and its just as slow. I have turned off services that certain websites assure me I do not need and nothing. I have one Unsigned Driver for my WLAN Card but the Supplier doesnt have a signed driver available. It's a Sitecom WL-517 Wireless Broadband Kit PCMCIA adapter. I have uninstalled the device to see if this might be the problem but it still doesnt effect startup time.
I downloaded Bootvis to look at where the time is going and what it shows. It seems to spend an age loading drivers and looking at the Prefetch files this accounts for about 40 seconds. Then it spends another 45 seconds at Windows Logon and Services. From here I have a gap of about 45 seconds where it does nothing it just pauses for another 45 seconds. I have ran Bootvis so that it optimised the system but this did nothing. Having read further I discovered that Windows XP more or less does a BootVis optimisation at every startup and so this would have done nothing anyway. Because of this I ran the Windows XP Home Cd and repaired the Installation so it should be relatively fresh.I must say I am at a loss as to where the problem is.
FIRST OF ALL "I AM THE ONLY USER OF THIS COMPUTER" DON'T NEED PASSWORDS ETC. Before I had this computer cleaned out - I was able to boot on and be directly on my desktop Now I GET WINDOWS WELCOME SCREEN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN AND MY USER NAME "OWNER" ON THE RIGHT SIDE - I THEN HAVE TO CLICK ON THE "OWNER" AND WAIT UNTIL THE SYSTEM LOADS "MY PERSONAL SETTINGS:
