Guest Polo Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held down the power utton and it turned off Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried all the safe modes etc but nothing happens I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me
Guest nass Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 RE: My laptop doesnt work please help "Polo" wrote: > I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held down > the power utton and it turned off > > Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly > and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and > Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a > second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried all > the safe modes etc but nothing happens > > I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me Time to take the Laptop to your local repair shop. Or try the Safe Mode again and also Last Good known configuration. HTH, nass --- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest David B. Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 Re: My laptop doesnt work please help In the boot menu (where you select safe mode, etc) do you have an entry that says disable automatic restart? If so select it, then post back with the Blue Screen error message. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "Polo" <Polo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D67D516C-B72F-4638-A8E8-879751ECEF28@microsoft.com... >I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held >down > the power utton and it turned off > > Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly > and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and > Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a > second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried > all > the safe modes etc but nothing happens > > I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 Re: My laptop doesnt work please help Did you plug your iPhone in at the right place? Sounds like you were running on battery power and plugged it into the power jack & fried the darn thing. Polo wrote: > I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held > down > the power utton and it turned off > > Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly > and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and > Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a > second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried > all the safe modes etc but nothing happens > > I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me
Guest Polo Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 RE: My laptop doesnt work please help no i definatly plugged it in the right place :) i have tried to load this up on safe mode and last good point etc but none of them work it just keeps restarting itself is there nothing i can do myself to it instead of taking to a comp shop?? "Polo" wrote: > I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held down > the power utton and it turned off > > Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly > and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and > Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a > second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried all > the safe modes etc but nothing happens > > I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me
Guest William R. Walsh Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Re: My laptop doesnt work please help Hi! > it just keeps restarting itself You have now learned an unfortunate lesson about a choice that Microsoft enabled by default in Windows 2000, XP and Vista...by default, Windows has so-called write caching enabled. This means that anything written to disk may not actually be written to the disk until some later time. If your computer crashes, or the disk decides that it can't really write the data to disk, your computer's files and file system will be left in an incomplete state. Yes, it does help performance...but you are *really* playing a roulette game with your data with this option enabled. > is there nothing i can do myself to it instead of taking to a comp shop?? In order to fix this you can do a few different things: 1. Find your Windows installation CD, put it in the computer and let the computer start up from it. Then try running the "repair" option. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Some software may need to be reinstalled afterwards. 2. Connect the drive to another computer and try to repair the damage by running CHKDSK (after making a backup!) and then replacing the missing/damaged files from a working system that was running the *exact* same version of Windows. You may or may not be able to do this--being able to see the blue screen would help here. I think there is an option from the startup menu to make the computer stop when it crashes and not automatically reboot. 3. Backup your data, wipe the drive and reinstall Windows from scratch. Then reinstall your programs. Whichever one you do, consider these changes as well: Open Device Manager Find your hard drive in the list, double click on it. Choose the "Policies" tab and remove the checkmark from "Enable write caching on the disk". (Oh, and note the warning that you never got to see about computer and power failures.) and for the automatic rebooting upon system failure "feature": Open System Properties by right-clicking My Computer and choosing Properties or from the Control Panel. The system properties window appears. Click the Advanced tab. Click the button in the Startup and Recovery category. In the dialog box that appears, take the check mark out of the "Automatically restart" choice. Then, the next time the system dies, you will know exactly why and can pore over it for as long as you like. Good luck! William
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