Problem with Windows XP

[JayChyl]

Hey, i just have a problem with windows xp launching.

Everything in bios start etc seems fine, but when the win xp need to boot up, it wont do it at the first start. It is just showing black screen with little flashing "-" at the top.

Afte this, i need to restart my PC. Then after the bios screenies, when windows need to boot up, it is showing, that Windows XP wasn't launched properly... eetc.

And i go few options to chose.

i chosed everything and nothing work.


Can somebody help? Thanks

[Nick]

:cool: You chosed everything hen ??
Jimbo is here....he must know...he knows all !!
:wootrock:

[JIMINATOR]

do you do any overclocking or anything in the bios?
you may want to turn that off. if not, i would
suggest doing a repair install of windows xp. figuring
out what the problem is may be difficult or impossible...

[JayChyl]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Aug 28 2003, 09:36 PM
do you do any overclocking or anything in the bios?
you may want to turn that off. if not, i would
suggest doing a repair install of windows xp. figuring
out what the problem is may be difficult or impossible...
It even happened, when i reinstalled windows.

And i dont changed anything in bios.

[JayChyl]

Hmm, maybe i just need to bring my hammer here, ans smash the machine carefully? (not you Outlaws The Machine, dont worry)

[Death Engineer]

Originally posted by Chyliniak@Aug 28 2003, 02:53 PM
Hmm, maybe i just need to bring my hammer here, ans smash the machine carefully? (not you Outlaws The Machine, dont worry)
I'm sure he was cowering while sucking his thumb. :rolleyes:

[Slice]

Originally posted by Death Engineer+Aug 28 2003, 05:37 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Death Engineer @ Aug 28 2003, 05:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Chyliniak@Aug 28 2003, 02:53 PM
Hmm, maybe i just need to bring my hammer here, ans smash the machine carefully? (not you Outlaws The Machine, dont worry)
I&#39;m sure he was cowering while sucking his thumb. :rolleyes: [/b][/quote]
:lol:

[JayChyl]

Hey i need help, not a spam.

[Death Engineer]

Originally posted by Chyliniak@Aug 28 2003, 02:53 PM
Hmm, maybe i just need to bring my hammer here, ans smash the machine carefully? (not you Outlaws The Machine, dont worry)
May I remind you of this post?? :cool:

(rack this up as post #2 in this thread :P)

[JayChyl]

Thanks for the help. Really :mad:

I will ask in other "better" place than this. Where guys will know what to do. And where they DON&#39;T Spam.

[EXEcution]

Just keep on pushing F10 when it boots up&#33; :rolleyes:

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by Chyliniak+Aug 28 2003, 03:46 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chyliniak @ Aug 28 2003, 03:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--JIMINATOR@Aug 28 2003, 09:36 PM
do you do any overclocking or anything in the bios?
you may want to turn that off. if not, i would
suggest doing a repair install of windows xp. figuring
out what the problem is may be difficult or impossible...
It even happened, when i reinstalled windows.

And i dont changed anything in bios. [/b][/quote]
ok, what type of reinstall did you do?
a clean install or a repair install?
With a repair install there may be drivers around that are causing a problem
if you were able to do an install, that means that windows works, but your configuration is broken
so install to another directory
you will have to copy over your profiles and stuff, but that is better than nothing
if you are having the problems after a clean install, then it has to be
hardware related. you may want to open the case, blow out the dust,
reseat the memory and so forth. there really isn&#39;t much more to say based
on the details you have given...

loading default settings in the bios also couldn&#39;t hurt...

[ME BIGGD01]

first of all, before doing clean install let&#39;s investigate what&#39;s going on.

i just want to make sure of what the problem is.

when you boot it goes into start up menu such as safe mode and normal and etc etc..?

now have you installed anything priopr to this happening?

did your bios reset and is not detecting one of your devices?

is the computer booting up when you choose normal?

is there any exclamation marks in your device manager?
(RIGHT CLICK ON MY COMPUTER/ CLICK ON PROPERTIES/ CLICK ON HARDWARE TAB/CLICK ON DEVICE MANGER)

try reinstalling all the lastest chipset and video card drivers

reinstall sp1 if using xp

what you may want to try if that doesnt work is checking system files to make sure they are not corrupt by doing this

CLICK START//CLICK RUN/TYPE SFC /SCANNOW

[JIMINATOR]

yeah, what he said&#33;&#33; then clean install&#33;&#33;

[PJ'l_Master]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Aug 28 2003, 07:36 PM
do you do any overclocking or anything in the bios?
you may want to turn that off. if not, i would
suggest doing a repair install of windows xp. figuring
out what the problem is may be difficult or impossible...
What do you do for a living JIM?

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by PJ&#39;l_Master@Sep 2 2003, 03:08 PM
What do you do for a living JIM?
i program using an obscure database language.
But i have built a lot of systems, and done lots of winstalls.... :thumbs:

[PJ'l_Master]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR+Sep 2 2003, 07:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JIMINATOR @ Sep 2 2003, 07:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--PJ&#39;l_Master@Sep 2 2003, 03:08 PM
What do you do for a living JIM?
i program using an obscure database language.
But i have built a lot of systems, and done lots of winstalls.... :thumbs: [/b][/quote]
that explains a lot :online2long:

[Die Hard]

spam :P

[JayChyl]

Nice, i am just reading what you written.

I gonna change my opinion :)

[JayChyl]

Ok thats what happening:

1. Its morning, i am launching my computer.
2. Bios checking, hard disk detection, (all bios related) goes fine.
Then, it is trying to boot up CDTOM - no cd rom in drive, as normally.
Then it want to boot up the Win XP.

But it wont boot it up. Only one second of HD working, then it shows black screen with flashing "-" at the top left.

3: Ok, i cant do anything. I need to restart using a button on my Computer Case.
Ok i am doing reset. Ok the bios detection, HDD&#39;s proc RAM etc. all goes fine.
Then detecting cdrom, as normally.

And after 1 second, its showing a window with information that Windows XP not booted normaly, and i got 4 options to choose:

Safe mode
Safe mode with Netwrok

Last Good configuration

Normal Bootup.


5. Ok i choosen normal booting up. It boots well.



This damn thing not happen, when i turn off my computer for about few minutes. and when i am turning it on after few minutes, it is all booting ok.

But if i will wait about 6 hours, it will do the same thing.


I really dont know wtf is that.

[JayChyl]

It was started to happen not that long ago.

When it started to happen, i suggested to reinstall my windows.

So i booted up WinXP from the CD, i removed a partition (i got 2 disks) and formatted my HD on the next steps.

Ok 1 restart goes fine, then second one. After second restart of WinXP clean installation, it dont wanted to boot up. Even my monitor dont turned on. Ok i did restart (the button on my comp case) all ok. My win XP booted fine.


It looks like a voodoo doll for me. ph34r

[JayChyl]

+ I installed newest drivers for my graphics Card and i though it will fix the prob. IT WONT.

+ i reseted the bios settings. WONT WORK


Still this sh&#33;t happening to me

[JIMINATOR]

ok, it sounds like a hardware problem.
you see, when stuff gets hot, it expands
there may be a bad contact somewhere in your system, maybe power supply,
motherboard, memory, whatever.
when the system is cold, it doesn&#39;t have a good contact, so your booting fails.
when things warm up, things change and your system boots.
the fix? you can try opening your case, pressing down on all cards, chips and
connectors that go in sockets. that may help, or that may not....
may also potentially be a drive issue, the hard drives take a lot more power
when booting as they have to spin the platters up to speed, but then it looks
like they are being accessed the first time around, so i wouldn&#39;t think that would be it...

[JayChyl]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Sep 3 2003, 09:48 PM
ok, it sounds like a hardware problem.
you see, when stuff gets hot, it expands
there may be a bad contact somewhere in your system, maybe power supply,
motherboard, memory, whatever.
when the system is cold, it doesn&#39;t have a good contact, so your booting fails.
when things warm up, things change and your system boots.
the fix? you can try opening your case, pressing down on all cards, chips and
connectors that go in sockets. that may help, or that may not....
may also potentially be a drive issue, the hard drives take a lot more power
when booting as they have to spin the platters up to speed, but then it looks
like they are being accessed the first time around, so i wouldn&#39;t think that would be it...
I gonna try it this morning

[JayChyl]

I pluged in and out everything. Wont work :(

I gonna reinstall Service Pack 1.

[PJ'l_Master]

that is crazy&#33;
It doesnt seem to make sense that it would do that. :blink:

[JayChyl]

Originally posted by PJ&#39;l_Master@Sep 4 2003, 03:18 PM
that is crazy&#33;
It doesnt seem to make sense that it would do that. :blink:
I know that this is very weird. But its real man.

Its something with hardware, or something with my Windows XP, but after reinstall it was doing the same.
This is freaking ph34r

[T I K]

Chy have you already done as suggested/ control panel/ system/hardware/device manager/properties/ exclamations/ devices/ working properly/ resource conflicts&#33;

I&#39;m no comp expert but if there is nothing there then I would wonder if a "possible" if your got a big enough power supply and that your not suppling your mobo and hardware with enough fulll voltage&#33;

Also there are resources on the net/ do a google search for online pc doctor / or something like that and usually you will find some free advice by posting your prob. on a forum type that someone may also be able 2 help&#33;&#33;

Their are some that will do it for a fee and usually dont take a fee untill prob
solved/ then their are others that donate their time when they have time so that is a possiblity 2/ just have 2 wait until someone has the time 2 help you
which means most likely it will take longer but that is an option&#33;

Last but not least if you have put any new hardware in recently you can take it out / put old hardware in and c if u still have the same prob.

You might have 2 go through a process of elimination ie. if you have installed
several pieces of hardware recently

GL, hope you get comp prob straightened out Kolego&#33;

[JayChyl]

Hmm, i dont have any conflicts, i checked in control panel.

I got the full voltage, thats for sure. It might be something with my power supplier.

The Hardware, i dont changed any recently. I got the same hardware as i had when i went to computer service to reapir my comp last month.

I gonna try some utilities to test my comp. Maybe then i will find out the problem.

[Morpheus]

Ok.... first go into your BIOS and TELL it to boot from the disk. that would help...

then reformat and do what bigg says. :P


(DE nice posting, very informative)

[JayChyl]

Its not graphics card, thats for sure. Because the monitor is working. i just see black screen (bios black screen) with flashing -

Before i had a problem, when my comp dont wanted to start at the first time. It was motherboard and power supplier cooked up.

[JayChyl]

Yeah i gonna try some ways.