Guest jeem Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up. It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my desktop again?
Guest nass Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 RE: booting "jeem" wrote: > Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last > night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it > up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It > fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no > idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up. > > It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and > over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my > desktop again? It could be an overheated system issue or the Game notcompatible with your your machine. Try this: When/while machine starting press F8 til you get the boot up options and select Safe Mode. In safe mode try system restore and see if that will help resolve the issue. If it didn't then take the machine to your local repair shop for them to look at an dmay be have an idea after testing your HDD if it going bad or is it overheating issue and the CPU Thermal component need to repalced with a new one. HTH, nass --- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest jeem Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 RE: booting Thanks but it looks like it'll have to go in.
Guest Galen Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 Re: booting My reply is at the bottom of your sent message. In news:5B9E50B7-F9DD-4FD3-9453-A14786EB5260@microsoft.com, jeem <jeem@discussions.microsoft.com> typed: > Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last > night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started > it > up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. > It > fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before > no > idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up. > > It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and > over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my > desktop again? Head to Safe Mode while booting and restore to an earlier date. I'd try to start there. Safe Mode: http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/safemode.html -- Galen (Not Current MS-MVP) My Geek Site: http://kgiii.info Web Hosting: http://whathostingshould.be "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." - Sherlock Holmes
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