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sounds like some kind of hardware failure. Gpu maybe?
Also could be something wrong with windows files.
Did you recently change anything? DL anything? Do you have the windows discs?
I think if a file accidentally deleted from sys files, that you can boot up with windows disc in and it'll find it or something (someone confirm?)
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I don't recall changing anything recently other than redownloading the iccup launcher and newest bwchart but neither of those ever left my desktop and wouldn't effect windows I'm sure I have the discs somewhere I'll start looking for them.
Ok found the discs going to try to launch it with the disc in.
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Could be hard drive, motherboard, RAM, power supply, or video card. Just test them all one by one, really is the only way to be sure.
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Ok well, I booted it with the windows xp discs and now it's asking for an administrator password and I don't recall even setting it any ideas?
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If you don't recall setting an administrator password, try your stock standard passwords.
'Admin', 'administrator', 'password' etc
If those don't work, you may have to resort to google.
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I don't believe XP has a default password. I think in your installation of Windows you set a certain password.
If you don't remember if you did or not, I think you can either leave it blank and try, or you can try the first user's password.
I think it is most likely either a hard drive failure or possibly a RAM failure. If your computer was freezing a lot/very slow/making clicking noises prior to the crash it is probably the hard drive.
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find the .sys file that it hangs on while starting in safe mode then boot into debugging mode and rename it in your system32/driver folder
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On February 08 2010 09:26 FragKrag wrote:
I don't believe XP has a default password. I think in your installation of Windows you set a certain password.
If you don't remember if you did or not, I think you can either leave it blank and try, or you can try the first user's password.
I think it is most likely either a hard drive failure or possibly a RAM failure. If your computer was freezing a lot/very slow/making clicking noises prior to the crash it is probably the hard drive.
I tried just pressing enter for the password (leaving it blank) but it just went to a command prompt instead of actually trying it as a password.
On February 08 2010 09:27 Terranist wrote:
find the .sys file that it hangs on while starting in safe mode then boot into debugging mode and rename it in your system32/driver folder
I can't boot in safe mode.
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try your most frequent passwords then I guess.
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On February 08 2010 09:35 d(O.o)a wrote:
I tried just pressing enter for the password (leaving it blank) but it just went to a command prompt instead of actually trying it as a password.
This means you have guessed the correct password. try running chkdsk at the command prompt.
chkdsk /f /r
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On February 08 2010 10:20 Neo27 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2010 09:35 d(O.o)a wrote:
I tried just pressing enter for the password (leaving it blank) but it just went to a command prompt instead of actually trying it as a password.
This means you have guessed the correct password. try running chkdsk at the command prompt. chkdsk /f /r
It says /f /r is not valid so I tried /f didn't work and did /r
It said it fixed 1 or more errors but nothing has changed in terms of the computer actually starting, anything else I can do or do I have to reformat?
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I know you figured it out (the password) but, just fyi if you forget it there is a workaround on doing it. I've read about it a long time ago, it's not that difficult at all.
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See if you can hook up another drive from other comp as the master and use your original one as a slave. See if you can figure out what's wrong from there.
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I am computer illiterate and have no idea how to do that lol.
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well it's kind of complicated (not to do, but to explain). See if you can find a guide or something.
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There's a key sequence that allows you to startup line by line. Use it and see if there's a specific line at which your computer crashes. If you can find out what it is, it can go a long way toward determining what's causing it.
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I'm sorry I gave you the wrong parameters for chkdsk, /r was the one to do, which you did.
Since this doesn't fix the problem, from my experience, you can reinstall windows OVER your old one. Since you are computer illiterate, I found this guide on google, it seems easy to follow - http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=LQEQ5022EYJPDQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=189400897 -
95% of the time, the problem you are having was caused by software, but could also be caused by a failing hard drive, or failing RAM. You can download a program called Memtest86 to check for RAM problems. You burn it to a CD and boot to it, and it runs automatically and will give you a PASS / FAIL after a few hours.
I hope we were able to help you. Good luck.
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