[wolfmarter]

hi there, on boot up my computer goes to the startup screen and then turns black for about five minutes before continuing the final steps for the boot. When i play games it freezes on me and will only let me turn of the cpu on the chassis. I updated all of the drivers except for the latest motherboard bios because i dont know how to get the update started in dos after the computer booted on the boot cd i made. I am also not sure if the motherboard and graphic card are compatible or if they even have to be. The specs for my computer are: Pentium 4,radeon9250,motherboard ASRock p4i45d+ and i have one gig of ram.

Please help

thx

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Let's start with the first issue

Start > run
cmd
<enter>

type
chkdsk /r
<enter>

Say yes to run on next reboot.

Reboot, go take a walk this will take some time.

[gerryf]

Let's start with the first issue

Start > run
cmd
<enter>

type
chkdsk /r
<enter>

Say yes to run on next reboot.

Reboot, go take a walk this will take some time.

[wolfmarter]

i ran the test and it came back without mistakes,still takes the computer forever to start up though.... I have no idea what it could be

[gerryf]

start > run, type
eventvwr.msc
<enter>

Right click application and choose CLEAR ALL EVENTS, do not save the log

Right click system and choose CLEAR ALL EVENTS, do not save the log


Reboot.

start > run, type
eventvwr.msc
<enter>

Look under systems and applications for items with red Xs ...list them here.

[wolfmarter]

there was not a single red mark in the system log?!!??!?!? I have no idea what to do.....

[gerryf]

create a second user account using control panel > users

Log in to that account.

Does the problem recur?

[wolfmarter]

i changed the user account and now all the games work fine. Still takes a long time to startup but i can live with that no problem. Thanx so much u guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gerryf]

hmmm, interesting....log into orginal account

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