So I've been meaning to get a new computer and something pretty tragic has happened last week. My computer fell over (don't know how, i didn't push it) and it crashed (screen froze) and i had to manually power it off. It was in the middle of a virus scan and i think i was supposed to reboot the computer to finish it but i pretty much fucked it over. I want to fix this computer to hold me over until i get a new one (if i get a new one soon) and I really need your help guys, I at least want to finish this season.
So at this moment is it restarting on the windows start up screen. It goes through everything fine but once it's done 'starting up' it just reboots in a cycle. I tried looking online and my problem seemed too vague so i couldn't find good resources so i wanted to know if anyone in here had a similar problem or can help me with this.
I greatly appreciate any help
So I've been meaning to get a new computer and something pretty tragic has happened last week. My computer fell over (don't know how, i didn't push it) and it crashed (screen froze) and i had to manually power it off. It was in the middle of a virus scan and i think i was supposed to reboot the computer to finish it but i pretty much fucked it over. I want to fix this computer to hold me over until i get a new one (if i get a new one soon) and I really need your help guys, I at least want to finish this season.
So at this moment is it restarting on the windows start up screen. It goes through everything fine but once it's done 'starting up' it just reboots in a cycle. I tried looking online and my problem seemed too vague so i couldn't find good resources so i wanted to know if anyone in here had a similar problem or can help me with this.
I greatly appreciate any help
you could try searching "<os> reboot loop". did that for win7 with some results.
you could try searching "<os> reboot loop". did that for win7 with some results.
At least its turning on, that's a good sign. Did you check if everything was seated and plugged in properly inside computer? Try reseating the bios as well.
At least its turning on, that's a good sign. Did you check if everything was seated and plugged in properly inside computer? Try reseating the bios as well.
yeah definitely check all your connectors and make sure you didn't shake something loose. You may also want to look at your HDD and make sure it didnt wig out in the mean time, but a small fall really shouldn't do anything bananas crazy to your computer.
yeah definitely check all your connectors and make sure you didn't shake something loose. You may also want to look at your HDD and make sure it didnt wig out in the mean time, but a small fall really shouldn't do anything bananas crazy to your computer.
If your pc was reading/writing while it fell over, you might have dead sectors in your HDD. That has happened to me once (my headphone cord got stuck, somehow I made my pc fall over when I tried to get it loose, didn't even really use a lot of force :E) and the only issue was, as I said, my HDD had dead sectors. The said pc still works fine. Might want to check your cpu cooler is still properly in place aswell.
If your pc was reading/writing while it fell over, you might have dead sectors in your HDD. That has happened to me once (my headphone cord got stuck, somehow I made my pc fall over when I tried to get it loose, didn't even really use a lot of force :E) and the only issue was, as I said, my HDD had dead sectors. The said pc still works fine. Might want to check your cpu cooler is still properly in place aswell.
Something like this has happened to me before. I ran it on safe mode and restored previous settings or smth like that
Im not sure if that will help tho.
Something like this has happened to me before. I ran it on safe mode and restored previous settings or smth like that
Im not sure if that will help tho.
Might be your hard drive. Boot up from a LiveSystem or even BartPE disc and perform a checkdisk.
If you can't pinpoint the proble, backup your files and just wipe the drive and reinstall windows.
Might be your hard drive. Boot up from a LiveSystem or even BartPE disc and perform a checkdisk.
If you can't pinpoint the proble, backup your files and just wipe the drive and reinstall windows.
Ok so for some reason it allowed me to eventually (through many failed attempts BSODing) get on my desktop screen which amazed me but it was SOOOO slow like I couldn't run anything after the initial loading up and my mouse didn't freeze but it felt like my os did. none of my background processes popped up like steam or avast or anything and i tried desperately to open avast to do a scan but it didn't work.. i tried going into safe mode afterwards (grabbed my important files) and trying to format my hard disk but it didn't even let me have the option? I have no idea what to do.
Ok so for some reason it allowed me to eventually (through many failed attempts BSODing) get on my desktop screen which amazed me but it was SOOOO slow like I couldn't run anything after the initial loading up and my mouse didn't freeze but it felt like my os did. none of my background processes popped up like steam or avast or anything and i tried desperately to open avast to do a scan but it didn't work.. i tried going into safe mode afterwards (grabbed my important files) and trying to format my hard disk but it didn't even let me have the option? I have no idea what to do.
Sounds like you have another working computer since you're posting. I would get a linux liveCD, something easy to use like Ubuntu, backup anything important on it currently, then use a partition editor (I think GParted is on the Ubuntu LiveCD) to format your HDD
Sounds like you have another working computer since you're posting. I would get a linux liveCD, something easy to use like Ubuntu, backup anything important on it currently, then use a partition editor (I think GParted is on the Ubuntu LiveCD) to format your HDD