[Kdeclaro87]

i had just finished playing this MMO, the night was no different than any other night after i play an MMO. I exit out normally and start up internet explorer and had a couple windows open. One window seemed to load extremely slow so i refresh it. That window then had the label 'not responding' so i right click and try to close it; didn't work. So I alt+tab to another window to do something else to give it time. When i alt+tabbed back my entire screen froze; the mouse isnt scrolling, i cant ctrl+alt+delete nothing seems to work. So I turn the power off on my tower. When i turn it back on, my screen doesn't turn on, and the Led lights on my keyboard dont light up. The tower is on, the green light is lit up, also i can hear the fan albeit it's strangely loud. Baffled at what's going on i leave it on to let it load or what ever(im a computer noob btw). After an hour i come back nothing has changed.

Update: Since then sometimes im able to get my computer started up but after the Account log in screen it juss goes black.

I run windows vista. I have never exhibited problems with my computer and its only a little over a year old. I never downloaded anything suspicious i was checking school account/mail at the time of my problem.

Prebuilt; Gateway DX series
Windows Vista home premium with SP1
Intel premium E5200 dual-core processor
4 GB DDR2 memory
640 GB hard drive
Nvidia geforce 9400 GT videocard.

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Still under warranty?
When was the last time you opened the system up and cleaned out the dust using a can of air?

When i alt+tabbed back my entire screen froze; the mouse isnt scrolling, i cant ctrl+alt+delete nothing seems to work.

This is more of a OS problem or a hardware problem.

So I turn the power off on my tower.

How did you do this without a mouse or being able to alt + tab? DID you simply hold the power button in till it turned off?

Try rebooting into Safe Mode or Last Know Good Configuration
To do this reboot the system and at the second black post screen start tapping the F8 key to get to the Advance Boot Menu
Using the keyboard down arrows scroll down to Safe Mode and highlight it. Now click Enter and the system will continue to boot.
Does it then boot into windows?
If not repeat the above steps and this time scroll down to the line that says Last Known Good Configuration That Worked and highlight.
Click [Enter[b] and report the results.

[rshaffer61]

Still under warranty?
When was the last time you opened the system up and cleaned out the dust using a can of air?

When i alt+tabbed back my entire screen froze; the mouse isnt scrolling, i cant ctrl+alt+delete nothing seems to work.

This is more of a OS problem or a hardware problem.

So I turn the power off on my tower.

How did you do this without a mouse or being able to alt + tab? DID you simply hold the power button in till it turned off?

Try rebooting into Safe Mode or Last Know Good Configuration
To do this reboot the system and at the second black post screen start tapping the F8 key to get to the Advance Boot Menu
Using the keyboard down arrows scroll down to Safe Mode and highlight it. Now click Enter and the system will continue to boot.
Does it then boot into windows?
If not repeat the above steps and this time scroll down to the line that says Last Known Good Configuration That Worked and highlight.
Click [Enter[b] and report the results.

[Kdeclaro87]

How did you do this without a mouse or being able to alt + tab? DID you simply hold the power button in till it turned off?

yea i didnt know what else to do

Try rebooting into Safe Mode or Last Know Good Configuration
To do this reboot the system and at the second black post screen start tapping the F8 key to get to the Advance Boot Menu
Using the keyboard down arrows scroll down to Safe Mode and highlight it. Now click Enter and the system will continue to boot.
Does it then boot into windows?
If not repeat the above steps and this time scroll down to the line that says Last Known Good Configuration That Worked and highlight.

i did that and it never loaded and stayed on the loading screen.

[rshaffer61]

Sounds like when you turned off the system you doinked the userinit.exe file. We can try to correct this if you have a XP cd. If not then I am including the instructions also.

Put your winxp cd in cd drive and reboot your system
When prompted to push any key to boot to cdrom then click a key
Click R to enter recovery console

Type the following

expand d:\i386\userinit.ex_ c:\windows\system32
click enter

Once it says 1 file copied
Then type exit and click enter
System will reboot
Make sure to remove winxp cd before it boots up and let it boot fully
Windows should start normally

If not post with result 



Wannabe1 userinit.exe fix





Give this a try. Without knowing a little more about what caused the problem, I can't guarantee it will work...and it requires the machine you make the disk on AND the machine you are fixing are both running XP.

Please download RC.ISO and save it somewhere you can find it.
Also download MagicISO.

Start MagicISO. You should see a window informing you about the full version of MagicISO.
In the bottom right select Try It! and the program will open.
Click on File and then on Open and navigate to the RC.ISO file you downloaded. Select it, and click Open.

First, we'll need to add a clean version of userinit.exe to the current RC.ISO

* In the upper right pane, double click on the i386 folder.
* Right click in the upper right pane and select Add Files...
* Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select userinit.exe
* Then click Open to add userinit.exe to the CD image.
* Click File and select Save As...
* Name the file RCplus and save it somewhere you can find it.


Next, we'll need to burn the newly created image to a disk that we can use to fix the problem.

* Put a blank CD-R disk in your CD burner and close the tray. If an AutoPlay window opens, close it.
* Click on Tools and select Burn CD/DVD with ISO.... A window will appear.
* Click on the little folder to the right of CD/DVD Image File then navigate to the newly created RCplus.iso Image file and click Open.
* In the CD/DVD Writing Speed drop-down menu choose the 8X setting.
* Under Format make sure that Mode 1 is selected.
* And finally, click on the Burn it! button to burn RCplus.iso to disk.


Once the disk is burned, put it in the machine you want to fix and restart it.
Boot to the CD just as you would with a Windows XP disk.
At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to enter the Recovery Console.
Choose the installation to be repaired by number (usually 1) and press Enter.
When you are asked for the Administrator password, enter the password or leave it blank (default) and press Enter.

At the C:\Windows> prompt, type the following commands pressing Enter after each one. Note: Watch the spaces.

D:
cd i386
copy userinit.exe c:\windows\system32
exit


After putting in the third command, you should receive the message 1 file copied which will indicate that the operation succeeded.
Now take out the CD and reboot your computer to normal mode. Try to log in and it should let you back in.

Thanks to wannabe1

[Kdeclaro87]

After this step:

Choose the installation to be repaired by number (usually 1) and press Enter.

i had gotten this screen


I did the process twice and came up with the same result.

[rshaffer61]

Not a good sign. This could be a sign of a hard drive or memory issue. I would like to have you test the hard drive next by doing the following steps.


Run hard drive diagnostics: http://www.tacktech....ay.cfm?ttid=287
Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive.
Depending on the program, it'll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD.
If downloaded file is of .iso type, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), and make the CD bootable.

NOTE. If your hard drive is made by Toshiba, unfortunately, you're out of luck, because Toshiba doesn't provide any diagnostic tool.

Thanks to Broni for the instructions


http://usasma.vox.co...iagnostics.html