Problem with Windows: Won't Load
 

As some of you may know I built my own computer about a week and a half ago. So far everything was working great, I went out of town for the weekend and shut my computer down...and when I got home last night windows wouldn't load. The screen that says windows with the blue bar in the middle scrolling will do that for about a minute, then it will freeze up at that screen. It did this to me once before I had left, but I simply restarted the computer and everything came back working fine. Now it keeps getting stuck on that screen. If I start my computer in safe mode everything comes up like it should in safe mode. I am thinking this would be a software problem, is that correct?

Any ideas what I should do to fix this problem?

My dad had this problem a couple weeks ago and ended up replacing several pieces of internal hardware.

It works now, although I don't know what the magic combination was.

Sounds to me like a hardware conflict. What do have plugged into the usb ports? system slots (pci, agp, pci express)?

I would unplug anything you have plugged into the usb ports first, boot pc. If it still doesn't boot, reseat all pci cards and try again. Next, I would probably try one memory stick at a time, etc.

Also, I think in safe mode you can still see the event log. Check that out for any errors as well.

Ok so I started my PC in safe mode, played around some and tried updating some drivers.......
So now when I boot it- windows comes up right away like it shuold but then a blue screen flashes really quick- to quick to read it, and then it restarts and goes through the cycle again.

I'm lost now...any ideas?

Few things to try...

In safe mode check your device manager list (system properties/device manager) see if there are any listed hardware conflicts.

If you haven't already - pressing F8 (before the windows flash screen) at bootup and instead of selecting safe mode - selecting Last Known Good Configuration might help.

If you have your windows CD you can insert it and at the 'welcome to setup screen' press R for repair.

You could try running scan disk, check if there is a large amount of bad sectors.

Also, if you can think of anything you've installed prior to it stopping working - that could have possibly caused some sort of issue.

Any luck on this so far?

SI

Been very busy with school- I'm going to try to tackle it tomorrow when I get off of work, I'm hoping to have it all sorted out- I want to get back to my Civ IV !!!

Also- SI I wanted to talk to you some about HT, I have 35 million in the bank and I'm looking to get back into things...a Div V team with 35 million should be fun :)

Yeah, just don't go nuts and spend it all in one place and you can actually make a team that could make III in 2-3 seasons.

SI