My father-in-law asked me to help him get his computer back up and running after a power outage. Apparently it gets "to the moment Windows starts" then restarts. I asked him to try starting it in Safe Mode - he'd already tried it and it didn't work. He still had the XP disc so I told him to toss it in and try again. If it doesn't load off the disc, I'm pretty much out of ideas. Does anyone have any other ideas of what I can try, assuming it's not a fried hardware issue?
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Re: Father-in-laws computer wonky after power outage?
Posted 22 April 2011 - 11:25 AM
I would try two things
1.) Boot off XP (or load the hard drive onto another NTFS system) & run chkdsk /r on the drive. The file system maybe corrupt after an immediate shutdown.
2.) Check the motherboard for Capacitor Failure.
1.) Boot off XP (or load the hard drive onto another NTFS system) & run chkdsk /r on the drive. The file system maybe corrupt after an immediate shutdown.
2.) Check the motherboard for Capacitor Failure.
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 05:30 AM
It's probably a problem with windows, go into your BIOS and see if you can turn off HALT ON ERRORS .
The you can write down the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH error and look up what's wrong.
The you can write down the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH error and look up what's wrong.
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Posted 03 May 2011 - 09:51 AM
Yes, halt on errors only causes the BIOS to halt during its own boot sequence, not the OS's.
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Re: Father-in-laws computer wonky after power outage?
Posted 03 May 2011 - 10:20 AM
xor-logic, on 22 April 2011 - 06:17 PM, said:
Apparently it gets "to the moment Windows starts" then restarts.
Could it be overheating hardware? Happened to me once. CPU fan broke, and during the Windows startup it overheated, and the BIOS triggered a reboot as soon as Windows was able to. (Which made no sense. How does a reboot help cool things down?!
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Re: Father-in-laws computer wonky after power outage?
Posted 03 May 2011 - 12:11 PM
Thanks for the advice guys.
No2, not really feasible - easier just to tell him to take it in to get repaired.
sas1ni69, he didn't mention any. I'll ask him though.
And atli, maybe, maybe not. Didn't mention it - again, I'll ask.
Already told him to just get it repaired. Knowing him though, it will be a little bit before that happens.
Thanks again for the responses.
No2, not really feasible - easier just to tell him to take it in to get repaired.
sas1ni69, he didn't mention any. I'll ask him though.
And atli, maybe, maybe not. Didn't mention it - again, I'll ask.
Already told him to just get it repaired. Knowing him though, it will be a little bit before that happens.
Thanks again for the responses.
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