PC crashes during or after startup.

[Guest Big Jon]

I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

 

Can anyone help please?

[Guest Phillip944]

RE: PC crashes during or after startup.

 

Jon,

 

I'm in the middle of the same problem with my HP. First thing you need to

do is hit F8 during startup and disable auto reboot. This will cause the

system to blue screen, and show what's causing the issue. Write it down, and

research possible fixes.

 

"Big Jon" wrote:

> I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

> re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

> crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

> Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

>

> Can anyone help please?

[Guest Big Jon]

RE: PC crashes during or after startup.

 

Thanks for that, I will try it. Mines an HP too, when it crashes the monitor

turns off and looks as though its completly shut down, is this what happens

with yours?

 

"Phillip944" wrote:

> Jon,

>

> I'm in the middle of the same problem with my HP. First thing you need to

> do is hit F8 during startup and disable auto reboot. This will cause the

> system to blue screen, and show what's causing the issue. Write it down, and

> research possible fixes.

>

> "Big Jon" wrote:

>

> > I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

> > re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

> > crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

> > Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

> >

> > Can anyone help please?

[Guest Phillip944]

RE: PC crashes during or after startup.

 

Oh yeah... and it's frustrating as hell. I'm pretty sure my problem is a

hardware issue. Let me know what error messages you get. Maybe I can help.

I've already researched every possible error message on the planet!!!!!!!!!!

:-)

 

"Big Jon" wrote:

> Thanks for that, I will try it. Mines an HP too, when it crashes the monitor

> turns off and looks as though its completly shut down, is this what happens

> with yours?

>

> "Phillip944" wrote:

>

> > Jon,

> >

> > I'm in the middle of the same problem with my HP. First thing you need to

> > do is hit F8 during startup and disable auto reboot. This will cause the

> > system to blue screen, and show what's causing the issue. Write it down, and

> > research possible fixes.

> >

> > "Big Jon" wrote:

> >

> > > I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

> > > re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

> > > crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

> > > Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

> > >

> > > Can anyone help please?

[Guest Jordon]

Re: PC crashes during or after startup.

 

Big Jon wrote:

> I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

> re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

> crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

> Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

 

Every time that's happened to one of my pc's the first thing

I do is remove the side, turn it on and make sure the CPU

fan is spinning.

 

--

Jordon

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: PC crashes during or after startup.

 

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:11:02 -0700, Big Jon

<BigJon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I've been give a PC from a friend and he said that its tempramental. he

> re-installed XP Pro and formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the PC it

> crashes during or just after startup, I have tried starting in Safe Mode and

> Last Known Good Configuration and it keeps happening.

 

 

If I acquired a used computer, the first thing I would do with it

would be to reinstall the operating system cleanly. You have no idea

how the computer has been maintained, what has been installed

incorrectly, what is missing, what viruses and spyware there may be,

etc. I wouldn't want to live with somebody else's mistakes and

problems, possibility of kiddy porn, etc., and I wouldn't recommend

that anyone else do either.

 

All the above stands no matter what your friend did, how knowledgeable

he is, etc.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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