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Hey,

Many of you can probably remember the big fuss i had with my desktop computer with bluescreening problems,with thanks to everyones on here helpi managed to fix. Unfortunately anthier problem has arisen. When i tryto turn on my computer it books and then the windowloading screen appears. This is where the problemis. While loading the windows logo begons to go all funny colours and then the computer freezes.

Just wondering if anyone had any ideas what may be the problem

Cheers

You're using an operating system which has a tendancy to go round and round and up its own orifice. It necessarily needs resinstalling on a semi-regular basis. It just has to be accepted.

Marvell wrote:You're using an operating system which has a tendancy to go round and round and up its own orifice. It necessarily needs resinstalling on a semi-regular basis. It just has to be accepted.

And in english? lol

You need to reinstall Windows.

there must be an under lieing reason why things keep going pear shaped and corrupt. Simply keep reinstalling windows isn't going to help in the long run.

I've very rarely had to reinstall windows on my or any machines that I've worked with. There's usually some reason for things to go wrong. If files keep on getting corrup, I'd say there could be a problem with your disk.

I had the BSOD a while ago and couldn't start it in normal mode. Had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows.
Don't even know where the error came from.

What exactly have you been downloading?

Dirty Davey is right Mr. Ceaser, there probably is an underlying hardware problem. Just go through the same steps you did before and reinstall windows again, and if you get any more problems then I'm afraid it is a little more serious. The main culprit is usually a damaged hard drive so you could try and replace that first, but unfortunately it could be something else next most likely would be ram.

Just another thought, if you have a graphics card, start the computer in safe mode and uninstall your graphics card and set it to run from your onboard graphics.

In reinstalling windows will i lose all of my data, if so I'm peeved lol

Waheyyyyy Managed anmother restore with everyhting intact

Tread with caution young man, me thinks the battle you have won but the war is far from over........

Now you have it working back up regularly, I don't think we've heard the end of this yet mate.

Damn, why did i know you would be right lol. The fix lasted a day then the same symptoms returned. Pfffft, maybe throwing it out of the window may help

I saved most of my things when I had to reformat and reinstall by sending them to myself as attatchments and on my memory stick.

Good luck anyways.

i replaced my intire computer part by part to try and figure out why my machine would reboot randomly finaly tracking it down to my cable modem which as ntl can't find me and keep loosing me on there system have been providing me free cable for a wile now.
since my box is now 5yrs old it has to be left on otherwise it takes 20mins to find the network cable.

i belive ntl sends a rest signal down the line periodicly to check cable conections and it is this that periodicly reboots my system, this only happens when the network is connected.

it may be worth you trying changing your ide / hard drive cables as this solved alot of problems with booting windows.

Sir_Digby_Chicken_Ceaser wrote:Damn, why did i know you would be right lol. The fix lasted a day then the same symptoms returned. Pfffft, maybe throwing it out of the window may help

It sounds like it could be a software problem, maybe a driver that's been installed for some peripheral device after you installed windows?

Have you tried booting in safe mode? (hit F8 while booting) this will bypass loading of drivers and leave you just the needed ones to get it booted. If you can boot in safe mode, then uninstall anything that you've installed since it previously worked. (if that makes sense)