FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
last night, the house got hit by a powercut, but it was only windy  , anyway, it turned the pc off, i just left it as i was going to bed anyways, tried turning the thing on this mornin and it keeps looping round the loading screens, im only ever given the option of starting in-
-safe mode
-safe mode with networking
-safe mode with command prompt
-last known working settings
-starting windows normally
-leaving the thing 30 seconds and it does its won thing
its windows xp, and i know nothing about computers, any ideas
faz x
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
the computer starts rebooting again just before the log in screen appears, had a look round the net on a school pc and its saying that parts of my hard drive are corrupt, some hae said that they got to the same point and it ran scan disc for 12+ hours  , anyone experienced this? the power went before the pc was fully shut down
|
nathy_87
Member
Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: koda Fabia VRS 5J
User status: Offline
|
This happend to my gf's dads computer. Took it to a back alley shop and repaired it working in tip-top condition.
I have some ideas for you to try though mate:
1. Cold Start: Unplug PC and wait for at least 2 minuets before attempting to power-up.
2. Reset Bios: Reset the CMOS using Jumper* on mother-board (See hand-book). Take battery out for 1 minute approx)
3. Look at the motherboard to check for burn marks.
*Jumper should be like a plastic (i think dont quote me on this) thing that can be moved from where it is niow to another 2 spaces but please see hand-book.
Failing them mate, take it a pc-repair shop (not PC World,currys etc). Hope it helps.
|
DannyB
Premium Member
Registered: 6th Feb 08
User status: Offline
|
This happened to me, it will probably be the hard drive. Did you have a surge protector?
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
yes it has a surge protector, will have a look for burns and this jumper thing, but im know ict guy, wheres the battery located? i dont have a handbook for it
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
just took the side panel out, mother board (tht hooooooooge effing circuit board?) has the code P4B533 - VM printed on it? is the battery that small silver thing, bout the size of a 2p and looks like 2 chocolate buttons? remove that for 1 minuite (with all power disconencted i guess?) and then reboot the pc?
wat are the chances of losing all my data etc if i do this?
no burn marks, just loads dust
[Edited on 27-03-2009 by FAZ]
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
if it POSTing you dont need to clear CMOS.
jsut wack the xp cd in and repair windows
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
so if i can get tht cd, click repair and i wont loose any data etc?
will any xp cd work with it, or does it have to be one unique to my machine?
it just keeps looping round, never able to get to the log in screen
[Edited on 27-03-2009 by FAZ]
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
you _shouldnt_ loose any data
ANY CD WILL WORK FAZ THEY ARE ALL THE SAME YOU MUPPET 
edit - as long as version is the same
[Edited on 27-03-2009 by Russ]
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
what?
|
Ren
Member
Registered: 16th Oct 04
User status: Offline
|
Put in an XP cd and boot to it (as in, it loads to the CD before it loads into windows. If you need help with this, let me know).
Once it gives you the options, choose R to repair. It should take you to an MSDOS type command prompt. You can type HELP to see all the list of commands avaliable, or just go ahead and type FIXBOOT and follow the instructions.
You can use any XP CD. Once that's done, it should be fixed.
[Edited on 28-03-2009 by Ren]
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
ok thank you
will u2u you if needed
|
andy1868
Member
Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
User status: Offline
|
the command you want for the recovery side of things is "chkdsk /r" 
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
|
drbeansri
Member
Registered: 10th Dec 06
Location: Hertfordshire / Plymouth
User status: Offline
|
this has happened but on my desktop... doesnt seem to load cds.
|
FAZ
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
User status: Offline
|
i never use cds, this will be the firstc d ive ever used in it personally, its an old business pc from my mums work, they wer upgrading so the ict guy (who lives down the road  ) sold it to her fopr £80 but they arent allowed to do it anymore, o well, willt ry and scrounge the relavent cd off him and hope this thread does not get deleted 
|
