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Declan
18-02-2007, 06:28 PM
When i turn on my computer it restarts at the microsoft xp screen,
its a 3.2ghz 512mb packard bell with an ati graphics card. i got told its to do with the graphics card. But id rather not have to bring it back out although it is insured anyone got any tips to solve this ? :robot:

Shipoftheline
18-02-2007, 07:27 PM
Have you tried booting up in safe mode ? If not try this and check the event log, it could be something installed on the startup causing the problem

Declan
18-02-2007, 08:45 PM
Have you tried booting up in safe mode ? If not try this and check the event log, it could be something installed on the startup causing the problem
yes none of these work, now i get the windows didnt start properly and few options

Shipoftheline
18-02-2007, 09:06 PM
Yes ? so if you've had it in safe mode I'd try opening msconfig and delete anything new which could be causing it to hang

Wigertoods
20-02-2007, 02:28 PM
May be a corrupt MBR or a virus.
Had a similar prob recently and turned out to be a virus

y2krog2000
20-02-2007, 02:40 PM
Do a virus scan and malware scan to see if thats the problem, if it is still under warrenty if you take the card out you will probably loose the warrenty if they seen you have been in it. If it dosent have any malware or viruses then try doing a fresh install and format the hard drive.

Declan
20-02-2007, 09:26 PM
Ok i got the problem solved. I still dont know what happened but i ran a disk check and then it was fine. Cheers for the suggestions and adviceB-)

evilclive
02-03-2007, 02:37 AM
I know what happened: one of your system files became physically corrupted. I don't mean that the file contained the wrong machine-code instructions, but that its physical location on the disk became invalid in some way.

Think about what happens in FAT32: each file has a start position (cluster) on the disk, a known length, and a chain of links that point from each cluster comprising the file to the next cluster. (NTFS is more complicated, but the idea is the same.) If a cluster chain joins up with itself in an endless loop, or if two files join together in the middle to make a Y-shaped file, you've got problems.

If the contents of a system file get corrupted, so the computer is executing gibberish instead of valid Windows code, this quickly gets spotted. Windows is robust enough to react to this by taking a backup copy of the system file from the special DLLCACHE directory, and starting again. But if the structure of a system file is corrupted, Windows won't risk doing further damage by trying to fix it blindly; this is a job for CHKDSK to fix. Windows just restarts, and encounters exactly the same problem the next time.

CHKDSK cleans up this mess by deleting all files with corrupted structures. (As an aside, this isn't good if the file is a Word document with no recent backups. In this respect, Windows 98 SCANDISK is kinder, making safe copies of the files, so that more specialised tools can recover their data.) Once the offending file has been removed, Windows can replace it with a clean copy from DLLCACHE, and everything is rosy again.