Big fiery ball visible from outer space. I need some good advice.
SickPuppy:
Could be your graphics card as you said...I had the same experience. Try booting in safe mode and then disabling your display adapter in the device manager. If you can boot normally after this, the problem is with your card. I would try reseating the card and check the connections on your hard drive and plugin connections on the motherboard. If that doesn't resolve it, try a new graphics card.
ZephyrZodiac:
The graphics card would affect the running of the game itself, but I can't see how that would affect boot-up! I would say it's either your power unit or your hard disk, in which case, if you can get it to boot up just once, make sure you've saved everything you need onto CD/DVD before you replace it! Since you obviously know more about the inner workings than me, I make this suggestion very tentatively but when my previous installation refused to boot up and kept crashing, it was the power unit which was just not up to the job.
garyalex:
This sounds like a driver issue. Best thing is to try booting with a minimal configuration (Motherboard, Memory, Processor and single Hard drive. You might need to use the Gfx card if you don't have an onboard graphics controller on your system.
If this fails to boot, its an issue with one of those 4 or 5 components.
If it does boot, its something else you have connected (printer, scanner, dvd-writer, Lan card etc). Put them back one at a time until problem re-occurs.
Software Testing:
Go into safe mode, Go into Device Manager, that can be accessed via Control Panel, System. Start disabling unnecessary stuff here. See if Windows will boot normally.
Hardware Testing:
Memory can be tested with a utility from www.memtest.org
The rest would need to be removed and tested individually.
Try going into the BIOS settings and disabled unnecessary items (such as sound card, onboard LAN, com ports, USB ports and so on)
SickPuppy:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 16, 14:37:13
The graphics card would affect the running of the game itself, but I can't see how that would affect boot-up!
Because windows doesn't run off legacy drivers if graphic card drivers are installed.
Brynne:
Quote from: cyperangel on 2005 August 16, 08:15:36
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!!!
Wow! One in 30? What Lotto do you play, and where can I get a ticket? Kidding.
I had a similar problem with my laptop. Turned out it was a bad motherboard. But I'm no computer genius, and it sounds like you've gotten some pretty solid advice on this thread.
Hope you get it resolved soon!
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