Big fiery ball visible from outer space. I need some good advice.
cyperangel:
Okide Dokie *takes a deep breath* Right!.....
Wwell, after formatting both my harddrives, and reinstalling windows, office 2003, and the sims + university, my computer is back to usual business.
Usual business in my case means, that it wont start up, except in safe mode, with networking. I just formattet and reinstalled the whole frigging thing, and it does this thing again. If i shut down the computer, I might be lucky to be able to start it up as I should be, one in 30 times, and thats winning a firstprize in the lotto lucky!!!
So, any of you geniusses out there have some prize information that could potentially salvage my computer? This round of I-Wont_boot started after the sims crashed on me, and i had to turn off the computer on the power button to get some life back in it.
What happens when I boot it up, is that it boots up as far as the blue thingy that goes across the screen on the win XP logo page. It never gets as far as the login screen. It then just hangs there, while the blue bar going and going and going like some other frigging energizer bunny. ??? ??? ??? :'(
I formatted the computer, because I had the exact same problem before, which is why i took to never shutting down the durn thing. I sadly dont recall why it started the last time, but with time, its gone worse. I think it might either be a faulty harddrive, or my gfx card thats doing funny stuff, but I dont know how to test it. I can run tests in safe mode, but I cant get it to boot in regular mode.
Links, ideas, flames, anything is welcome at this point, which is like 1 milimetre before I give up, and toss the whole frigging computer out of the window on the 8th floor of this building. That would be called "crash Testing!"
gali:
"Links, ideas, flames, anything is welcome at this point, which is like 1 milimetre before I give up, and toss the whole frigging computer out of the window on the 8th floor of this building. That would be called "crash Testing!" (cyber).
Wow! Instead of throwing the computer out of the window - I would call a technician, who I am sure will give you a good advice, or fix the problem you have.
I don't think it's related to the game.
Some time ago (1-2 months), my game began to freeze for a second or so, without crash. I didn't like it at all and called a technician; he updated my drivers, gave me 800 MHz processor and 2 Mega RAM - and the game runned smoothly, without the freezing I had.
Now it runs slower, because I downloaded "tons" of clothes, objects and hair from TSR. I called the technician again, and he said that the downloads are the cause of the slow run. No need of update.
cyperangel:
Well, I have enough computer knowledge, to make sure I am using the updated drivers, and the computer i bought runs on a 3000 AMD processor, with 1 gig of ram, and a ATI 9600 pro gfx card. So i very much doubt its because it lacks system resources. My guess is that it is either a driver failiure some where, which I dont know how to track down, or a hardware failiure, which i dont know how to test for.
I knew i should have posted this in the retardo land, that is how i feel right now. Anyways, Ive scoured the net for possible sollutions for the hang on boot problem, and have found like 17 different sollutions, which wont work for me. Including disabling mup.sys, reinstalling, and disabling the build in sound card.
Now, as for calling a technician. I work on an internet hotline, where I get calls from such technicians. They cost almost as much as a new computer, and they know absolutely squad, so that is not an option im feeling very comfortable with.
I dont think its related to the game either. But at the moment I am desperate enough to ask the people i trust in most when it comes to computers, and that is my husband, and the gang that roams these forums. So, rip of my lips, or whatever. :D
Thanks for the try though :)
dizzy:
Wow, that sucks. Sounds like your hard drive is FUBAR. Try replacing it.
gillies:
First thing to do would be to get some diagnostic program for the hard drive and see what it says.
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