The 4 times I tried booting Windows XP professional on my computer I got these errors: a bunch of wierd symbols, "memory overflow error", "cannot boot from cd - code 4", and then "cannot boot from cd - code 5." Another time it said it was inspecting the hardware and froze. Its the cannot boot problems that i haven't solved and the freezing one.
View 2 RepliesI don't know what happened, one day i came home, started my pc, then it just hung on the windows xp pro boot screen. I don't know what happen. I didn't do anything before, like install anything,or unistall, or did any hardware changes. My computer now just stays on the screen where there are those bars that move near the bottom. The bars still move, but it won't load onto the welcome screen. I've been waiting for like 20 mins, but still won't go onto boot screen. Anyone got any ideas on whats happening?
View 6 Replies View Related. I have a two year old dell dimension e310 desktop computer that has 'never' had a problem...until last night. After installing a game online for my son (from gametap) the game was running very slow and then just froze on the screen. I tried every way to shut the game off...couldn't...it was just stuck. I tried ctl-alt-delete expecting the task manager to appear....nothing... At that point I resorted to just shutting off the main switch. When I turned it back on a couple of minutes later it tried to start normally...then a blue screen comes up that says a 'problem has been detected and windows has been forced to shut down....etc'.. It read it and it instructed me to press f 8 and try to start in 'safe mode'
View 4 Replies View RelatedEverythings hooked up correctly and plugged in so i try to install windows xp pro and everytime i try to choose install from cd it hangs on the inspecting hardware screen. sometimes it'll hang and other times it'll just go to a black screen. Everything checks correctly as being found, like the cd drive, hard drive, shows up on the first screen where it shows u the memory count, etc. Its a SATA seagate drive 160 gb. I've swapped cables, even power connections, and still nothing would fix this. I'm thinking ok well it might be the board or something wrong there with the SATA connection, so i install a SATA pci card and try it with that, but i still get the same message freeze with inspecting hardware. So im really hoping someone can help me here with my problem and make me able to get my new comp here working. thanks in advance for any help. my motherboard is a gigabyte, ga-ma69vm-s2 and im using an amd 64x2 dual core 3800+. memory is 1gb (2x512) ddr2 dual channel, pny.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo i just recently bought a new motherboard/cpu/memory/case.Then i took the 2 hard drives/graphics card out of my old machine.This machine is running fine. I'm now trying to set up my old motherboard/computer with an old hard drive i have.First, i had an 80 conductor problem, but i bought 2 brand new IDE cables.Now, when i try to install windows. it freezes on the screen "Setup is inspecting your current hardware configuration."I've tried a couple hard drives now. but they are all old.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have used the search facility to try and find a result to this problem but alas to no avail.I have had XP pro in this desktop before so I know it's compatible. Recently I decided to upgrade to Vista but decided that it wasn't for me and have tried to downgrade back to XP.On first try with XP pro setup bootdisk I got by said problem and got to the format/partition bit but got error message saying unable to load operating system half way through install. I figured it could be because i didn't set up boot in bios properly using bootup selector instead and upon restart during install it tried to boot from hd.
So restarted and sorted bios selection out but now get this wierd problem, being on ANY install disk of XP (I have a few) it jams after "setup is inspecting your computers hardware" i.e. blank screen and nothing happening. I've tried unplugging everything and leaving only cd-rom, hard-drive and monitor/keyboard/gfx card and mouse connected but all to no avail.The drive I'm trying to install to is a samsung 150gb hard drive partitioned to 20gb and 130gb respectively with data still on the 130gb section that i'd like to keep.The most interesting thing is that the Vista disk that I have installs fine without problem which is how I'm writing this.
I have been having problems when i tried reverting from windows 7 back to Windows XP Home Edition. At first i was able to get to windows setup (Blue screen) when i had the disc and partitioned to install the XP Disc. The computer restarted and i get to "press any key to continue (with the disc)" and i do so and it says "set up is inspecting your computers hardware" and then screen turns black and nothing appears. When i take the disc out it says "Error Loading Operating System". I can't really do much of anything now. Only screen i can get to is f1 to the "bios setup utility".I have an HP a450n.. Really need help i been wanting to use XP again because windows 7 annoyed me because it lagged my games. it has ran windows xp before and worked very good as well as for the games.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen i boot from cd "Setup is inspecting your hard ware configuration" message displayed and blank screen monitor seen so what is the solution?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhile trying to install Windows XP, my computer hangs at the “Please wait, setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configuration” screen. This happens while trying to install either Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro (both of which are original CDs), as well as a slipstreamed sp3 copy of XP. So I installing XP on an older computer I have and then put that hard drive back into the computer with the trouble, turned the system on and it hangs at either the black screen or at the F8 boot options screen when I press the F8 key.I checked the connections, tried stripping the computer hardware down to just a several year old CD / DVD drive, graphics card, 1 hard drive, and floppy. When that gave the same results, I tried every hardware arrangement I could think of; several different hard drives IDE and SATA (internal) ranging from 40GB’s to 500GB’s, slave / master / cable / select and the wire or port selection, 2 DVD drives (internal / external), together and in combinations for both the hard dives and the DVD drives, pulling out or unplugging all other connections (Ethernet, USB, TV-card, and floppy drive), and changed the placement and number of memory sticks. I also changed the monitors and all of this gave the same results.
I played with various settings of the main board jumpers and from within CMOS. I under clocked and over clocked the memory, CPU, and north bridge as well as changing the voltage, individually and together; manually and automatically. I set the optimized defaults and reset the Bios, both from within the CMOS and pulling the plug or with the jumper. I enabled everything and disabled everything that I could get away with. Even run the boot up Virus scan utility. Some of these would not let the system post properly, however the those that would allow me to post gave my the same system hanging problems with XP.With the exception of adding a couple of hard drives, changing out a DVD drive, adding a couple of USB devices, different OS’s and some CMOS settings; the system is the same as when it used to run XP Pro fine about a little over a year ago. Though I do remember that XP was fussy about starting up with trying to over clock the CPU to anything with the memory running at stock settings and so I was left with having to use the automatic settings (which I used the lite or medium settings). As for the other OS’s, I am currently running Windows 7rc (which runs fine). I’ve ran MSDOS 6.22 (via bootable CD), Ubuntu Linux v10.04, and Mandrake Linux (I believe v6. something). All of these installed and ran fine. However Windows 95, Windows 95 OEM, Windows 98, and the Windows 98 sp2 installation CD’s just went to black screen and froze. On some site sometime ago, I heard that you will sometimes run into conflicts if the north bridge chipset is from an Opposing graphics vendor than the Graphics Card that you are using which is the case in my system, an ATI chipset with an nVidia Video Card. Though I have no idea that is source of my problem or not and the only other video card that my system I think will take is an old Voodoo3 or 4, 3d Card.
i was on my desktop, and a virus alert came up, asking me to delete it.my computer then froze and now when i turn it on, none of the 4 user icons appear, so i cant log on at all...not even in safe mode or any of stuff i tried.
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi have a system running Win XP Pro (Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 250 GB Sata Hdd) software installed Adobe Photoshop, Second Copy & Avast. It had been running fine for the last 6 months and then all of a sudden today on switching on it showed the windows/system32/config/system is corrupt or missing. I reinstalled Windows XP and the other mentioned programs and it ran fine for about 20 mins and then froze up.On a restart it showed the same error as mentioned above. So i quickly reinstalled everything AGAIN..same deal, ran for about 20 mins and began showing the same error.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy laptop froze earlier today.I shut it down and then restarted it sit on the windows loading screen forever.When i try starting in safe mode, is also take a long time then instead of starting it turns off and on again i also tried starting in the other safe configurations no luck i put the recover xp cd in and did a fixboot still no luck.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an eMachines T1150,1.3 GHZ Celeron Processor,with Windows XP.After probably picking up a trojan,or worse,somewhere,I did a system reboot with the restore cd.Then,with a dial-up modem,I downloaded EVERYTHING I was supposed to have,according to Bill Gates,from MS...XP Rollback gold,XP Service pack 2,etc.I mean everything...spent about 12 hours on-line yesterday doing it.Thank God for college football!
This morning I go to Download.com and load the AVG Antivirus freeware,directly from the site.After it downloaded,I went to continue the install,and it froze.
I disconnected the power source,after waiting for 10 mins.,and when I turned it back on,XP would not load,not even by going back to "last configuration".Having to shut off the power to turn it off,so I could turn it back on,I now get a black screen,with "Operating system not found".I know,the solution is to go Linux,but I'm just not that savvy yet.In the meantime,does anyone have any ideas?
For the first time, about an hour ago, while starting-up, the cursor and screen froze. Until just now, it never happened on my PC before but I've had it many times at the Internet Cafe. When it happened, I always pressed the 3 keys: Crl, Alt and Delete and the PC would turn-off and re-boot but with my PC, it refused to re-boot after pressing for a half-hour. It showed "Windows Task Manager" where the message kept appearing. "Application Error" which kept flashing endlessly. The cursor froze in the center of the screen intermittently an hourglass flashed-on. This continued for over 1 hour. What is a fast way to re-boot when the cursor freezes ? I've used iMacs for years at the Apple Store and I never had a "Frozen" screen. Is this just a Windows problem? Does the new Windows 7 also "crash"?
View 6 Replies View RelatedLaptop froze today without warning. COuldn't turn it back on. Would freeze during boot process, even when I tried to boot in Safe Mode.
Left it half hour and tried again. Managed to get XP going. BUt it's still not right. Freezes apparently at random, 5 or so minutes after boot. Needs re-boot.
I have windows xp home edition on a hp pavilon pc. When i uninstall somthing, somtimes it stops responding near the end and then i have to end task. When i do that it has uninstalled the program but has left the icon in the "install/uninstall programs". There is no way i can get rid of it.if i click uninstall it just says "the installation is missing the file instops.dat. setup will now exit. This has recently happened to my norton antivirus. I tried to uninstall norton antivirus 2004 so i could install norton 360. But it froze at the end of the installaton, so i had to end task. Now the icon is permanantly stuck in the "install/uninstall programs". So norton 360 thinks the program is still installed and i cant install this new anti virus. Because of this my computer is unprotected.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhile trying to download and install the updates during the last Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" my PC locked up on the very last one KB922770. FIle name: NDP20-KB922770-X86.exe. A security update for .NET Framework 2.0. I waited patiently and still it did not install after 25 minutes. So, I had to shut down using the power button, rebooted and downloaded the file manually and tried installing it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy laptop comp always froze everytime the cpu cooling fan starts making noises. I think the problem is related to an program/appliocation or server that catched a virus through it. I had the laptop fixed once from the shop and the problem still exist with continuing usage of the same applications/programs. Can somebody help me check and get rid of the virus or at least prevent the comp from freezing again?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI was burning a backup CD and when it was done my comp just froze. When I rebooted it, I got the message: Quote: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM So then I decided to make boot disks but as I inserted the 4th disk in, I got the message: Quote: File usbehci.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5897 in d:xpsp1aseootsetupsetup.c
View 12 Replies View RelatedI ran the System Recovery by going into the Program Files and Compaq instead of using the CDs.I thought I would be prompted to insert the CD once the program started but I wasn't. It took about 20 min. to complete. That was a red flag to me because it was so quick. It restarted and brought me to the registration process. Once through that,I was at a screen that basically said I was done and in order to go to my desktop, I should click on the "Finish" button.it booted up again with the 1st CD in the drive, there was a black screen that prompted me to type in whether I wanted a Restore, Full Recovery or Quit.I couldn't type anything in because, my keyboard didn't work. I ejected the CD, shut it down cold again, re-booted it and my keyboard started working again but I ended up back at the registration screen where it froze initially.
View 5 Replies View RelatedA couple of weeks ago I was searching the net and everything froze. Trying to shut down properly, NOTHING would work, including the power button. I removed and reconnected the battery to shut down and restart.Well, since then my computer has been unbearably slow. Every task from start-up (20 minutes, if at all) to loading Firefox (10 minutes) in awful. There are times where nothing even loads, all I see is my background and a cursor, nothing more.On the lucky chance that I do get everything up and running, it is slow to the point where even the clock is behind other clocks around me (cable box, other laptop) by 8-20 or so minutes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy windows xp computer was in the midst of performing a task then froze.I restarted it and now before it loads the os I get this: windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: (windows root)system32hal.dll How do I reinstall this file and get my system back to normal? or can I restore the system using quick restore?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a HP Pavilon with Windows XP Medica Center Edition SP2. I had to have the hard drive replaced recently and restored everything from the HP CDs. It worked fine for awhile until a couple of days ago the computer froze and when it started up again the desktop was back to the original after that the computer came with.
I've installed all of the security updates except for SP3, ran Hijack THis, Spybot, AVG and it all came back clean
Has begun to occasionally blue screen a few minutes after initiating a dial-up connection. One time it simply froze up after clicking the dial-up connection, had to shut down and reatart. Debug log at end of this post names four Conexant modem drivers and then memory corruption. Have run memtest for 15 hours with no errors. Have uninstalled modem from device manager and reinstalled with new drivers. Tried 2 different sets of drivers, the ones from the manufacturer and ones from Windows update. (Which I normally would never put a Windows Update driver on a computer, but I was trying everything I could think of.) Then ran XP driver verifier on all drivers. It is not hot or overheating, all fans are clean and functional, and am running temp monitor program to verify. Could it simply be that the modem is on it's way out, or what should my next troubleshooting step be? ....
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've had XP installed 9 months and working great. Yesterday while looking at EBAY, the screen went black, and the computer locked up.Thru trials, I ended up reformating the HD and starting from scratch. XP starts the installation and at 37 minutes left to install, everything freezes. I have to restart and XP installation begins again at about 47 minutes left to install, then at 37 minutes left to finish, the system locks again, and again, again, and again, at 37 minutes to finish.
View 2 Replies View RelatedTried to reinstall xp but screen froze at 'select operating system to start'. Now I just have a blank screen with a cursor flashing in the top left side. I tried to boot by pressing F11 but cannot do so either by the cd or the hdd.
View 14 Replies View RelatedComputer froze, restarted, blue screen "disks need to be checked for consistency"? It ran through, not sure what that means.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am unable to boot my PC most of the times.Whenever I switch on my PC,I see the following message nine ot of ten times. DiskError/Boot Faliure Reboot and select proper boot device or insert Boot media in selected boot device If I press enter after this messages & keep pressing following messages appear from time to time (Not simultaneously). If just after making the switch on, I press F2 key to check the boot device preference
If just after making the switch on , I press f11 key to reach the boot menu I always find the 1.44 MB Floppy option highlighted as the booting choice.(though there had not been any floppy in the floppy drive, I dont have any really)I make the hard disk option highlighted & it solves the problem only a few times. But next time when I try F11 key to check the boot menu again I find 1.44 MB floppy highlighted.
I haven't installed anything new on my computer but today after having my computer shipped to me via UPS I cut on my computer and where the XP load bar screen was I got: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device".Seeing this I knew I went into the BIOS setup and tried to turn the system priority to look at the HDD. Instead I only had the option of the DVD drive and the CD drive.I have no idea how to solve this problem and don't have any of the recovery CD's. I DO NOT WANT TO REFORMAT because like a bad little boy I did not backup my 4 years worth of work.
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