I had put my pc off with the on/off button, because I was in a hurry. Later when I tried to open it, it shows the BIOS screen and than nothing happens it just turns black and thats it. And it goes off when I put my finger slowly on the on/off button.
View 12 RepliesIm 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.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have this strange problem:I can't see my Bios loading .The screen is totaly black untill the windows' welcome screen , and then everything is back to normal.
It happened when I updated my motherboard Bios (Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI ,Rev. 1.0) through the original vendor's Website
I'm using a notebook and I just hibernate my computer, so I decided to finally give it a restart. The restart when fine, I saw the boot screen it was booting, I could of aborted the chkdsk but I decided to let it run. After it ran, the computer restarted and the computer hangs after the bios screen. F8 --> Safe Mode, Last known good config and all those nice things didn't work. I even booted into recovery mode, tried chkdsk /p fixboot fixmbr, none of that worked. Anyways, right now I booted into the XP CD clicked enter, clicked REPAIR and it's just reinstalling over I guess? I've never clicked repair before so I don't know how this is going to work
View 4 Replies View RelatedIve done a fair amount of searching online and tried a number of things myself, needless to say, they didnt work.Ok, so here's the issue; When I go to turn on my computer, I make it to the XP splash screen with the 3 blue bubbles moving left to right... But nothing from there.Additionally, between the BIOS screen and the XP splash screen, theres some weird black screen with what looks like a long barcode-esq bar, where a solid white line fills the gaps moving left to right...
View 3 Replies View RelatedA few weeks ago it started freezing and restarting randomly. Sometimes, on restarting, I would get the "Serious error" pop-up, which I always sent, and always got different results. Sometimes it would say it was an unknown driver error, sometimes an anti-virus error, once a RAM error. I had just upgraded the RAM when this started, so I ran the M$ testing tool several times, no errors. I also removed the new RAM, which didn't solve the problem, and put it back in
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen my computer loads up,after the bios i get a black screen. I am unable to enter safe mode or even boot from the Windows XP.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have windows xp professional sp2, I uninstalled Symantec Antivirus then rebooted computer. Went through bios load screen then came a black screen (no hard drive activity or nothing) and stays black with no hard drive activity or anything for about 5 minutes. After the 5 minutes I get the Windows XP loading screen then boots as normal.
Prior to me uninstalling symantec it went straight from bios screens to windows xp loading screen almost immediately. The reason I uninstalled antivirus was I wanted to try a different antivirus
as above, pentium 4 windoiws xp black screen on startup cannot see bios menu or get to safe mode.
View 1 Replies View Relatedas above, pentium 4 windoiws xp black screen on startup cannot see bios menu or get to safe mode.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy PC is running absolutely stable (7 hours of orthos). Just bought this EVGA motherboard and swapped it in place of an Asrock motherboard and got everything running, overclocked and stable.Before I got Windows XP running (previous installation from the asrock mobo), I encountered an issue and i isolated it down to one of the 200gb 7200.7 SATA HD's.IF this HD is plugged in when the PC boots, then the Windows XP Boot screen appears and hangs. NOTE: it DOES NOT freeze - the bar still moves, but there is no HD activity and the pc stays like this for hours on end. Note again - this is not a hang. the activity bar still moves from left to right, and it keeps doing this indefinitely it seems (with no HD activity from any drives). IF this HD is not plugged in, the PC boots in straight away. All drivers are tip top (nforce drivers, SATA drivers). However if I hot-plug this drive from within Windows, it works fine!. The PC just doesn't boot with the HD plugged in.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer has been taking like 5 times to start up. sometimes randomly shuts down and runs really bad. i got online chat with sony. they first said to do bios reset.f2 didnt do anything so they said back up and do system recovery.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I reinstall Windows XP on my laptop (Compaq V5000 - which is several years old)? The laptop's cd-rom is dead. There is no floppy disk drive. The hard drive has crashed. I have read on some websites that I can make a bootable usb drive. However, I have not been succesful in making a bootable USB thumb drive when the laptop's BIOS doesnt support a USB device to be bootable.The only thing I do have is my desktop computer (which is working fine) and a USB external case for the laptop internal hard drive.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI start up my laptop with the screen closed. When I open the screen I see the XP login screen for a second and then the computer goes black. I can't do anything else.I have Windows XP Home with the service pack 2 (I regret installing it).I never had any problems before. If you know how to fix this let me know.
View 6 Replies View Related1. I get the usual memory and bios messages
2. The XP screen with the scrolling lights appears
3. The screen becomes black and the cursor appears. The cursor can be moved all over the place just like normal, but there is nothing else visible.
4. After a long period (minutes), the screen becomes blue (dark band at top and bottom) and displays the Windows XP logo. XP infomrs me that "Windows is starting up". The cursor shows a CD next to it. This is as far as I've gotten.
i have a really annoying problem. my computer works fine but when left for a hour the screen goes black and the monitor revives no signal. the only way to get it back on is to switch the power button on and off. then windows says it was shut down wrongly and i have to go through a process of safe mode then start normally and las known config. there is no screen saver set and its windows xp pro any ideas before i chuck it out of the window
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy other laptop will not start up at all. I have Windows XP. When I turn it on, this message displays on a black screen:Windows could not start because the following file is missing or currupt:system32DRIVERSisapnp.sysYou can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi had a computer which had a pretty bad visus on it. i think i got the virus out but now it wont start.I tried to do a repair of windows with what i thought was the disc for the pc, turns out it was a different xp version than the one on the pc.
So how i have the original corrupted windows, and the repair version of xp on the machine. Both of which will not even run.Its really important that i get the data of the pc, that was the whole point of what i am doing. the computer starts, then said it didnt load, i choose how i want to start the pc, safe mode...etc and then it freezes.Sometimes it just goes straight to a black screen, and i can no longer get it to boot from the windows disc.
(spoiler alert: this is a long story computer specs:mainboard: msi i875p chipset sata I supported, onboard lan, agp&pci slots.cpu:intel p IV 3.06 ghz HT (single core)vga I : sapphire ati radeon x1950gt 256mb 256bit gddr3 agp8x vga II: his ati radeon 9250 something hdd I: seagate 120gb sata I hdd II: samsung 200gb sata I
hdd III: wd 250gb sata I rams: 2gb(4*512mb) kingston ddr I pc3200(400mhz)psu : fsp epsion 700w psupsu II: stock 350w psu(came with case, never used it)
os: windows xp pro eng sp3 retail version (unattended)
My main pc is stuck in a boot cycle giving me the black screen with options to start in safe mode etc etc and when selecting one of those options it reboots to the same point. When I press return the system tries to start it attempts it, clicks then goes back to boot cycle. The Windows XP system disk won't cut in like it should so I cannot gain control of the pc.
System is a Dell, 2years old and has had various viruses despite having the usual protection. I am currently using my old trusty Advent Pentium 3 for this message (which has never had the same degree of virus prob's curiously). After the first virus Dell talked me through using Ghost - brilliant. Within a couple of days it was hit again and usinng Spybot got rid of the virus but PC kept displaying the message rundll.dll file damaged. So I used XP Recovery seemingly with no problem only to find it won't reboot.
I have had windows XP Pro installed, updated and running fine until about a week ago. I was away from home for about a week and left the machine plugged into the mains but powered down. When I returned home to boot up, it kept doing things like constantly hanging on parts of the bios POST screen, eventually booting up after thirty or so complete restarts. It finally booted into windows but after the last shutting down, it will now not boot up at all. I have replaced the bios battery and reset the bios several times.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I turn on my computer, it does the bios check, then goes into the bios screen on its own. I have checked all of the bios settings, and see nothing set wrong. The only way I can get itno my xp pro system, is to use "F8" during the bios check, the select my hd from there, then it seems only half of my programs work, and it also seems to be randomly changing the programs that do not work, when I do this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy ups doesnt work now i switch on as usual but it always give beep sounds it doesnt give any power to pc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer all of a sudden shut down, when i restart it, the screen with the safe mode options comes up but when i select any of the otions it just restarts and th screen with the safe mode options comes up again. so i tried to format the hard drive and reinstall xp but right before the partioniung option comes up the BSOD appears. the problem occured about a day after i added a slave hard drive, so i removed the hard drive an restarted the computer and reinstalled xp, but to no avail.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have IBM T60 laptop (Mobile 945 Express Chipset), which I am using to connect to a acer h235h lcd monitor and am not able to get the display resolution as recommended by ACER, 1920x1200. I also have a Dell 2009W monitor and I get its max resoltion of 1680x1024 without any issues.
My ACER monitor is connected to VGA port and I am able to change the resolution to different settings like
1280x1024, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 *but* the last display which fits correctly on my screen is 1280x1024, beyond this any resolution leaves almost 4 inches of screen on left and 2 inches of screen on right blank. I cant move my mouse or do anything in those areas.
do you know how to fix a windows xp blue screen if ctrl+alt+delete doesn't work or right click any thing else.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCouple weeks ago my friends computer got blue screen error message and we called Dell and they sent us a DVD:
Operating System - Reinstallation DVD Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Version 2005 with Update Rollup 2.
With one of user help i was able to reinstall Windows from DVD. I can not connect to internet through cable.
or I can not turn the wireless adapter on ( F2 button) Or when i try to play sample music with Media Player it gives an error message - Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly.
its my previously-formatted HP Pavilion dv5201tx! The problem is as the title above. I can go into safe mode. I've used system restore twice. And in Documents and Settings folder I noticed it has:
Administrator
Administrator.computer description name
Administrator.computer description name.000
username1
username2
Is it creating more user folders? At some point Administrator.computer description name.000 wasn't there. Corrupted registry hive? I'm not sure! Restarted many times, used Last known good configuration, and it's still black after the boot screen. Please help!
Iam currently on hp windows xp home edition. The video adapter failed on my motherboard. I have replaced it with a 16mb video card and changed the bios to the agp setting for the adapter. I still can not get the start menu to show up.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy laptop has started to freeze at times,then the screen would blackout then appear with a black screen with a blue box inthe middle giving BOOT DEVICE OPTIONS Hard Disk Drive, CD-ROM/DVD, Floppy Disk Drive, LAN Boot it froze blacked out and now keeps going to this option page ,where as before if you turn off then on it rectified itself.
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhen I turned on my computer and got the blue screen of death, so I restarted my PC. Then a black screen came up saying "Windows could not start beacuse the following file is missing or corrupt : windowssystem32configsystem."
You can attempt to repair this file by putting the winxp cd in etc...
Now when i turn on my computer there is just a black screen showing, with nothing at all on it.
Any ideas?