My computer keeps shutting down and rebooting. I thought it was over heating so I opend it up and cleaned all the dust out but no luck. the last couple of times it did it i did get a message from Nortons saying it was repairing drive C. Any ideas. I have a Gateway running Windows XP
View 14 RepliesI did a normal shutdown and when I rebooted, I am locked out of my computer. The message is "your account has been disabled, see your system administrator". Is there any way to get back in?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would say about half a dozen times in the past few weeks when I tried to turn off my pc the computer rebooted and I had to tell it to shut down again. It always shut down on the second try.I did install an ATI graphics card recently, could that have something to do with it?Like I said it has only happened a few times so it's not that big of a deal, just kind of annoying. Anyone dealt with this before?
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo I just reformatted last night and installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Since installing it, I haven't been able to restart or shut down. The computer gets stuck on the background (no icons and taskbar). I don't even get to the blue screen that says it's saving settings and shutting down. Is there something I'm missing? I'm going to try starting up the computer with nothing selected in the msconfig and see if that fixes it. I'm 99% sure the problem occurred even before I installed drivers and such, but I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1505 with ATI Mobility X1400.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo I just reformatted last night and installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Since installing it, I haven't been able to restart or shut down. The computer gets stuck on the background (no icons and taskbar). I don't even get to the blue screen that says it's saving settings and shutting down. Is there something I'm missing? I've tried deselecting everything from the startup in msconfig and it still gets stuck on the background in normal mode.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm not too knowledgeable about the technical side of computing, so please bear with me.I'm running Windows XP Professional (SP2) on an AMD Athlon XP 3200+. My grandson showed me a game called Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, which I fell in love with and subsequently bought for my own computer. As I only had 'on board' graphics, the game obviously wouldn't run, so I bought an Nvidia 6200 graphics card.Following the instructions which came with it, I installed the card successfully. The only thing I couldn't do was disable the 'on board' graphics, but as my computer recognised the new card automatically, I went ahead and installed the driver.The new card didn't need an extra power source, as there was no connector on it. Incidentally, I did find the 'on board' graphics in the System > Properties list, but nothing happens when I click on it, so I assume I can't disable it.
Everything appeared to work well and I got the Roller Coaster game up and running beautifully.Some time later, after I had closed the game and gone on to other things, I needed to restart my computer, so I went through the usual restart sequence.Things went well at first but some way through the Windows XP loading screen, where the little blue bars scroll across, my computer simply switched off, totally! I tried again (obviously from a cold boot this time), but the same thing happened.To cut a long story short, I eventually removed the new card, and restored my system to a safe point, and it's now running perfectly again, although I can't play my game now.I'd be really grateful for any advice you can offer as to what the problem might be, as I want to build some more roller coasters!
I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP2 on my a computer that I built and started to install other programs as usual so that I could use this computer. The Windows Update balloon saying there are updates for your computer(it also claimed that I could work on other things while the updates occurred. So I installed other programs--Photoshop CS2, Quicktime Pro 7, Wacom Pen Tablet software drivers. The Windows Update happened three times. 1st had about 20 different updates, I rebooted with no problems. 2ns had 35 updates including IE 7, rebooted with no problems, 3rd time had 47 updates, rebooted and now my desktop is blank. My Pen Tablet (mouse) works but I don't see any icons or the START bar. My programs still work because when I open the Windows Task Manager and choose New task, I can browse for programs. Surfing thru other threads in this forum, I thought maybe I had a virus or malware.Just have never had any error messages. so I downloaded and ran these program scans: WPFind3u, VundoFix, AntiSuperspyware. Scans came up with no find of malicious stuff, but my desktop was visible afterwards. I've even tried starting up in safe mode. I get a black screen there--no icons on desktop.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen my laptop gets to the point in XP where you can select user and put in a password, There are no users to select from. the only option given is to shutdown, reboot etc.
View 4 Replies View Relatedhi i'm very untechy, i am getting an rpc server error and cannot figure out how to fix it. it keeps rebooting my system. so it's in a continual state of shutdown and reboot. RPC Server Unavailable, hres: 0x800706BA Register Class Objects Fail when i try to do anything it shuts down before i can complete it.. and i try to type command, but i have to go through ctrl/alt/delete to get to the run function because the taskbar isn't there?
View 7 Replies View RelatedThis is weird. I have to go through the shutdown procedure twice, i.e., Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok, then Start/Shut Down/Shut Down and click Ok again. It will then shutdown properly. The same thing happens when I try to "Restart." After doing the first shutdown sequence, everything is normal. I can open programs, surf the web, etc. It's as if I never tried to shut it down at all. Only after the second shutdown procedure will it shutdown fully. One note: When I go through the first shutdown sequence, my taskbar pops up and the desktop is darkened. After clicking Ok, the taskbar autohides and my desktop returns to its normal color.I have only had this problem for the last month or two. Before that, all was fine. It's not critical since I can shut it down. It's just annoying to have to do it twice.I have Windows 2000 Pro, SP4, build 5.00.2195.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen attempting to "shutdown" or "reboot", I have to do it twice. When I select "Start" then either shutdown or reboot, my desktop will flicker a couple of times, and then nothing appears to happen. I must select "start" again and then either shutdown or reboot and then they will work as expected.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have pentium 4 desktop.and windows xp is the operating system installed.it is now required to reboot.would you please suggest me How to reboot and what would be requirements for it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI did a clean install of XP Pro on my Dell and now I always get "It is now safe to shutdown your computer" when I power it down. I was running 98se and it always shut down by itself so I'm sure the bios supports this as some have suggested to me.
View 10 Replies View Relatedjust curious on if ppl think hibernating or shuting down windows is best i tested both and found hibernating twice as fast turning off (6 seconds) to 12 seconds shutdown.it turns on 4 times faster after hibernating.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't shoutdown & hibernate my laptop (windows XP SP2 Whit laset updates). when i click on shutdown button windows do noting.
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy computer it won't shut down or restart i have verizon and it comes wit a internet security suite and it has a anitvirus on it. i wouldn't update so i uninstalled it and installed it again but when its done it says u need to restart the computer so the programs can work rite but the cmputer won't restart it jus stays there and when i hit shutdown it jus stays there too. its like my computer won't shutdown or restart when i want it to.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor 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
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running a computer on Windows XP originally designed for Windows 98. Once I put it on there everytime I go to shutdown the computer will say "It is safe to turn off your computer" and I have to shut it down manually by the power button. The older operating systems would shut down automatically when I went to shut down but for some reason XP won't on this computer. How can I make the computer shutdown automatically?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 've a genuine retail xp running in two machines. One is pentium lll and another one is Core 2 Duo ...Both were running fine till yesterday ... The XP in C2D acts strange from today morning It freezes on shutdown ... All the every thing was fine ...I am sure there was no Virus (Using NOD32 Smart Security Suite) After many attempts to fix it. I lost my patience and decided to format C: drive and do a clean install ... I 've gone that way ...Now the fresh Installed xp also freezes on shutdown How's about this problem? Isit releated to hardware or software? Tried to fix by leaving the DVD drive empty & with a CD, Both didn't worked
View 14 Replies View RelatedWouldn’t it be great to easily shut down or restart your computer with a simple keystroke? Well now you can! You know about “Ctrl, Alt, Delete”, but what about “Ctrl, Alt, END”?Here's how it's done. The instructions are quite simple, and as long as you follow along, this should be rather painless! Please follow step by step!1. Right click on your desktop. Go to new, and then click on shortcut.2. A window comes up. Type in “shutdown” (without quotes) add a space and enter one of the following commands.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy son has been shutting down the computer recently from his account while i have been logged on. I have been downloading programs and such that i want to finish as quickly as possible, thus the comp needs to stay on. Is there a way to lock the computer from shutting down or something?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI was installing some windows updates and my laptop restarted. Now I cannot install any updates nor can I update my IE. Please any help is greatly needed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedNow that i removed most of the malware my computer had in the past 2 weeks or so, another problem emerged, a slow computer. The computer was much faster before i downloaded these hoards of anti-malware programs such as SuperAntiSpyware, WinPFind3u, Avenger, HostsXpert, CCLeaner, and HiJackThis (in addition to Spybot S & D and AdAware which i originally had. I Once measured the time it takes for the computer to restart.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an intel pentium4 system with 506 processor with intel motherboard (d101ggc) running on windows xp home with 512mb memory with one sata hard disk and two pat hard disks.Of late I have been having problems while shutting down after installing a software. the blue screen reads as follows."A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. ****DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUA IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS STOP ERROR SCREEN, RESTAART YOUR COMPUTER. iF THIS SCREEN APPEAR AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway I can make my computer automatically shut down after x amount of time not using it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHaving a little trouble figuring out why my start up and shutdown has slowed,Pc running a little slower than normal but I did recently install Ms office.
View 10 Replies View Related. When I choose to shutdown, it tells me it's shutting down but then restarts. It gave me the option to go back to the last settings that worked, which solved the problem for a little while. Then it started doing it again, and I have no idea why it keeps restarting.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm having some problems with my computer that started yesterday afternoon. I was on it that morning and it worked perfect and i shut it down properly before school only to find that when i got home it wont let me logon to a windows user account. After booting the windows user account pops-up and after selecting my account the computer will shut down. A friend of mine said that there might be something wrong with the winlogon but i cant find any info about that online. Right now im using safe mode with networking and i also tried accecsing the boot menu and selecting "disable automatic restart after system failure". Now rather than restarting it gives me a blue screen that reads:
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Technical Information:
***STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF89B6190, 0xF82D876D)
*** Ntfs. sys- Address F82d876D base at F82B 8000, Datestamp 41107eea
Beginning dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system admin or tech support group for further assistance.
I have ran the CHKDSK /F with no problems found. And i hope that with this information you may help me fix this very annoying, and most random computer problem.
everytime i go to shutdown or restart my computer i get this errorthe instruction OXO28352ED REF MEMORY OXO28352ED MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just upgraded one of my old Windows 98SE computers to XP Pro. The installation went well.But, for some reason now after I shutdown the computer in order for me to turn it back on I have to unplug it from the power supply and then plug it back in. Before i upgraded the computer I was already having a shutdown problem with Windows 98SE.Every time that I would shutdown, it would restart on its own.I tried to trouble shoot the problem.I even downloaded a patch from the Microsoft Website but it still didn't work.So i figured if i upgraded it to XP it would solve the problem, but I ended up with a different problem.
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy computer has begun taking FOREVER when I shutdown/restart it. I shut it down about 30 minutes ago to open it up and clean the dust out and I timed it. I was waiting at the blue "Windows is shutting down" screen for 5 minutes and 15 seconds!I don't know what is wrong, I haven't changed anything recently that should have cause this, not to my knowledge anyways.The only things that I can think of that I did recently was upgrade my video card to a ATI Radeon 9600XT and set my page file to be cleared on shutdown.
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