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Help! SOS!!

Things you might wanna know:

- a normal shutdown

- a rather slow (if ever) detection of IDE Drives

- 2 blinks into the windows thingy

- a quick flash of blue (says that somethin is corrupted)

- computer always fine, but haven't watched it restart in a long time (it always auto-restarts...

EDIT: What a way to celebrate 500 posts...

Can you boot into safe mode?
(f8)

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Originally posted by Nathan
Can you boot into safe mode?
(f8)

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Nope.

Hmmm,
My mate had this problem as well and i fixed it for him.
You need one hting and that is a XP disk.

For the blue screen, what error message do you get? Even if its a bunch of numbers like 0x000000 still post it, and be specific as to what is corrupted? And do you get the screen that asks you to boot in safe mode? Keep pressing F8 when you are restarting

Sounds like your HD might've kicked the bucket I'm afraid. This happened to me a while back - the disk read / write head on the second platter died, so I could access the stuff to get the loading screen, but as soon as the NTFS Windows driver kicked in the whole thing died.

To check this, get your Windows XP install CD out and run "chkdsk C: /R" (sans quotes) from the recovery console.

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
Sounds like your HD might've kicked the bucket I'm afraid. This happened to me a while back - the disk read / write head on the second platter died, so I could access the stuff to get the loading screen, but as soon as the NTFS Windows driver kicked in the whole thing died.

To check this, get your Windows XP install CD out and run "chkdsk C: /R" (sans quotes) from the recovery console.

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Then I restart my computer?

hm...... okay.
blue screen flash?
disable the reboot on windows error...

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Originally posted by Voldemort
disable the reboot on windows error...

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Where?

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
To check this, get your Windows XP install CD out and run "chkdsk C: /R" (sans quotes) from the recovery console.

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No sucess.

First check your hardware is fine.  Open up your box the most common probelm is ram, so take it out...blow away any dust.  If you have many sticks try booting with one..then the other.  So this with all the componants (HDD, Video Card, LAN...etc).

If still experiencing problems.....

Try downloading a recovery bootdisk such as Windows Recovery CD (this requires some work).  This will allow you to do many things from a Semi windows enviroment.  Also Hirens Boot CD has many useful recovery tools.  Then Emergany BootCD pro which is Linux and much harder to use. 
Then I recomend once in one of the above enviroments to back up your system!!

Then start to fool around with things that sounds like that might help.

This has worked out of most cases.  If you find a problem (harddrive sectors or something) then you have your problem there.

Hope everything works for you!!!!  Good luck!