Computer Help

[LEYKIS101]

Anyone know how to fix what's going on with my PC? It continually reboots and goes to a blue screen where it attempts to clean the hard drive, then repeats, I never get to the desktop! I don't have the original Windows disks either as this was purchased pre-loaded from our IT guy at work.

I am searching at majorgeeks.com, but was hoping for a quicker reply.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[FatTony]

Do you check your computer regularly for viruses???

 

[LEYKIS101]

Yes,

I use current McAfee and Ad-Aware. It sure sounds like a virus though.

 

[TheGeneral+]

What Operating System and version are you using?

 

[WorldRunner]

You're going to have to (at the very least) re-install windows.

Most likely you're going to need a clean format. Not very difficult but doesn't sound like you have the equipment (software) to do so.

Probably going to have to purchase a windows xp disk and do it yourself. I *HIGHLY* doubt it's a virus.

 

[HuckFinn]

Might be a corrupt hard drive. It could be looking for the information and finds bad sectors so it reboots over and over.

How did you post if your computer is bad?:breakit:

-HF

 

[LEYKIS101]

I have Windows XP Professional.

I'm currently using my laptop.

 

[EverFresh]

Your harddrive is toast I'm afraid

The "blue screen of death" is the tell tale sign

You can get software that can help you recover some of your data, but you will have to install a new hd in your comp

Everfresh

 

[LEYKIS101]

Yeah, might be.

It just keeps on trying to reboot and repeats after going to the blue screen.

 

[1cheater]

LEYKIS101,

what exactly does it say with your blue screen error? The example above says BAD_POOL_HEADER at the top left, look at yours, this is the key area of the error. If you can identify the error you can solve the problem.. LET me know.

 

[LEYKIS101]

Thanks Cheater.

It shows that its trying to clean the drive, then it goes back to rebooting and repeats.

I can't do a screen shot as that's a different PC than I'm on.

I think I'm in need of some recovery disks or a new harddrive, oh well.

 

[1cheater]

LEYKIS101, Found you the fix, but it's a tricky one....

MAKE SURE YOU CAN BACK UP YOUR STUFF BEFORE PROCEEDING, MESSING WITH THE REGISTRY IS LIKE BRAIN SURGERY ON YOUR COMPUTER, BACKING UP = LIFE SUPPORT :toothless


Windows Restarts Continuously with Blue Screen

<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD class=label>Article ID</TD><TD class=text>:</TD><TD class=text>174630</TD></TR><TR><TD class=label>Last Review</TD><TD class=text>:</TD><TD class=text>May 14, 2003</TD></TR><TR><TD class=label>Revision</TD><TD class=text>:</TD><TD class=text>2.0</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
This article was previously published under Q174630
IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry

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<TABLE class=tallTable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=image> </TD><TD class=text colSpan=2>SYMPTOMS</TD></TR><TR><TD class=image> </TD><TD class=text colSpan=2>CAUSE</TD></TR><TR><TD class=image> </TD><TD class=text colSpan=2>RESOLUTION</TD></TR><TR><TD class=image> </TD><TD class=text colSpan=2>MORE INFORMATION</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
SYMPTOMS

When you start Windows, your computer may briefly display the blue startup screen and then continuously restart.
CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the following conditions exist: <TABLE class=list><TBODY><TR><TD class=bullet>•</TD><TD class=text>A fatal system error (STOP error) causes the computer to stop.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bullet>•</TD><TD class=text>The Automatically Reboot option is enabled under Recovery on the Startup/Shutdown tab in System properties.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bullet>•</TD><TD class=text>The Windows paging file is smaller than the amount of physical memory installed in the computer or there is insufficient free space on the system hard disk to write the error dump file (Memory.dmp).</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[LEYKIS101]

Thanks Cheater, I will try it out and let you know.

:coffeetim

 

[LEYKIS101]

It says to reinstall Windows, I dont have the recovery disks to do this. I think I will have to try to get them from the IT guy that configured my harddrive.

Thanks for the effort though.

 

[1cheater]

More then welcome, hope it works out for you



Make sure he leaves you the product key for it

 

[BaseballGuy]

Hey cheater.

How's Cort?

 

[1cheater]

Sup guy... How you been?

Cort's good, got a bun in the oven, she's due next month..

 

[BaseballGuy]

Cort's good, got a bun in the oven, she's due next month..

Holy crap. Congrats man!