PC won't boot
Started by
howarddan
, Apr 13 2006 12:25 PM
#1
Posted 13 April 2006 - 12:25 PM
#2
Posted 13 April 2006 - 12:28 PM
Have you tried to open the disc tray before you get to this screen? Reboot with the reinstall disc in the tray and see if that helps.
#3
Posted 13 April 2006 - 12:43 PM
IF you can boot to the xp cd try going to the recovery console (by choosing the R option during setup) then type chkdsk /r and let that run till it's done without interupting it and see if that helps anything
#4
Posted 13 April 2006 - 01:57 PM
Thanks. somehow just putting the XP disk in the tray caused it to boot up to the Welcome screen. Great! but now I still have the original problem that led me to run Spybot and AdAware--it runs unbelivably slowly. If I click on an icon like Word Perfect it takes several minutes to load; same with everything else. Also the bottom half on the screen is black. although you can see the icons, the wallpaper is gone. she only hsa 256 RAM; maybe she just needs more for XP?
#5
Posted 13 April 2006 - 02:02 PM
more ram and a visit to the malware removal department down the hall and to the left....
(win xp will run on 256, but not well--you will see a significant improvement at 384mb and its real functional limit is 512mb)
(win xp will run on 256, but not well--you will see a significant improvement at 384mb and its real functional limit is 512mb)
#6
Posted 13 April 2006 - 05:49 PM
OK, I added more RAM so it now has 512. I ran Microsoft Defender, AdAware and Spybot again. I did disk cleanup. It doesnt need to be defragged. But it still runs extremely slowly and the bottom half of the screen is still black. Now what!!
#7
Posted 13 April 2006 - 05:54 PM
I forgot one thing: when I look at what processes are running, the big ones are Iexplore, which shows up 3 times, at 11K, 23K and 28 K, and PCMserrvice.exe at 11K.
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