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[The Great Wallsendo]

Home PC kaputt again...

It'll load up to a certain point then re-boot itself. Unable to load in any of the "safe" modes either...

Wary of doing a re-boot in case it hangs up halfway through and causes more problems...

Any ideas anyone?

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[Marc]

Who wants to go first.... Bob, Mark ???

Ah go on then

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Sorry

 

[davem2005]

Tony,
Last time I had a similar problem it was caused by a dog hair between the cpu and the cooler.

You recently rebuilt it...but it takes time for the cpu to squeeze out the thermal stuff and end up resting against the hair... Net result the PC shuts itself down on boot for safety reasons.

May not be the case...you may not have a dog

To identify a boot problem there are often lights on the motherboard that flash like morse before the os kicks in to tell you where the boot has got to . Check your manual.

If your pc beeps on boot try removing components one at a time, ie memory ( individual sticks of ) cd rom and finally the cpu. Boot it each time ( seems daft without the bits in) but you should get the beep each time...if you dont the chances are that one of the components left is faulty.

Failing that...buy a MAC

Cheers
Dave

 

[KeithB]

Might be a hard disk error, if you can get to a command prompt screen run chkdsk.

or if you can get to another PC hitachi do a disk checker that runs from a bootable CD.

edit:

It's called hitachi dive fitness test

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[Vamp]

Format,itll be a hard drive error

 

[marksworld]

Home PC kaputt again...

It'll load up to a certain point then re-boot itself. Unable to load in any of the "safe" modes either...

Wary of doing a re-boot in case it hangs up halfway through and causes more problems...

Any ideas anyone?

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i'm not suprised all the stick it gets lol





cheers
mark

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

Last time I had a similar problem it was caused by a dog hair between the cpu and the cooler

Use a hard drive instead of man's best friend to store digital information. Dogs only have limited memories anyway.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

well I don't know what it's prob was but I seem to be back online...did a non destructive re-boot ...have to re-install ALL updates again

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

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[The Great Wallsendo]

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good job I didn't read it...is that a rash on my arm?

...anyway cheers for the help lads, it was a blatant hardware issue and it's cost me an assignment deadline to boot (pardon the pun) :yltype: