How fucked is my computer? (1 Viewer)

[jimmybreeze]

On a scale of 1 to totally?

Almost every time I switch on it boots for a few seconds,the turns itself off.
Its most recent trick has been to hang indefinitely on the Windows XP screen,until I switch it off,I have to alternate between "last known settings" and "Start windows normally" until it eventually boots up properly.

Anyone have any ideas whats up or what needs replacing?
AVG,spybot and adaware showed nowt so Im guessing it isnt virus related

 

[Squiggle]

On a scale of 1 to totally?

Almost every time I switch on it boots for a few seconds,the turns itself off.
Its most recent trick has been to hang indefinitely on the Windows XP screen,until I switch it off,I have to alternate between "last known settings" and "Start windows normally" until it eventually boots up properly.

Anyone have any ideas whats up or what needs replacing?
AVG,spybot and adaware showed nowt so Im guessing it isnt virus related

Could be hard drive errors. When was the last time you ran a disk scan or defragmented your drive?

 

[jimmybreeze]

Defragmented it today,Ill see what the disk scan throws up

 

[Squiggle]

Did you add any new hardware lately? Something similar was happening to me when I upgraded my pc... turned out that the power supply wasn't able to handle the load at startup.

There are quite a few things that could cause that kind of problem. Basically it is a process of elimination.

How much hard-drive space do you have free?

 

[magicbastarder]

right click my computer > manage > event viewer > system log.

check for disk errors in there.

 

[ernesto]

how fucked is my kitchen jimmybreeze?!

ye bollix!

cheers for the bottle recycling though

 

[It Will Never Last]

Sounds like your hard drive is failing.

How old is the machine?

 

[jimmybreeze]

how fucked is my kitchen jimmybreeze?!

ye bollix!

cheers for the bottle recycling though

right click my kitchen > manage > event viewer > askmebollix.
worth it for the tasty meals tho eh!?
Cheers for the hospitality tho

right click my computer > manage > event viewer > system log.

check for disk errors in there.

Hmm,its coming up with a load of errors for the cdrom.
(I have a dvdrom and a (seperate) cdrom,both are connected,no idea why yer man did that),might open it up and try uninstall it,iv disabled it anyway
A few service control manager and DCOM(?) errors too.

Sounds like your hard drive is failing.

How old is the machine?

Yikes,bout 2/3 years old.
Simple and painless as buying a new internal drive,backing everythin up to external and copying it back on?

 

[jimmybreeze]

Did you add any new hardware lately? .
How much hard-drive space do you have free?

Bout 12 gb free,yeah stuck a new external HD on there recently,so that may have something to do with it!

 

[shower another shower]

How long are PCs meant to last these days?

 

[Squiggle]

How long are PCs meant to last these days?

I've had mine for 9 years now, and my brother owned it for 5 years before that.

(Of course the only completely original component is the 3 1/4" drive, which doesn't work any more)

 

[Lili Marlene]

F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8

Boot Disk

Safe Mode

ENVIRONMENT ERROR






Sorry, i'm being no help

 

[Froog]

maybe its a power problem?

 

[jimmybreeze]

Started up fine today after disabling the cdrom,hopefully thats sorted it

 

[jimmybreeze]

Now it wont even start up,when i press the power button,it wont click and switch on

 

[ernesto]

Now it wont even start up,when i press the power button,it wont click and switch on

maybe its all that shit music you make on it?

 

[jimmybreeze]

maybe its all that shit hot music you make on it?

\fixed that for ya

 

[magicbastarder]

is there any sort of response when you plug the power cable into the PSU at the back?

 

[cookiemonster]

i can call over and have a look at it if you like?

 

[jimmybreeze]

is there any sort of response when you plug the power cable into the PSU at the back?

It starts powering up and knocks itself off after a few seconds

i can call over and have a look at it if you like?

That would be ace man!cheers