bootup problems

[woodland81]

I need serious help with my PC, it took me over half an hour to get it working today. not even sure where best to ask for advice

 

When I switch it on im taken to a page where it says a whole loada information

 

Serial ATA

Port-00- HD

Port-01- CD

 

further down it leave me with the message floppy disk seek failure- my pc doesn't have a floppy disk

F1 continue or f2 setup.

 

I tried both options many times,

F1 would take me to page where i select launch startup repair or startup normally. both options , would take me to a page where id either get the blue screen of death or the page would completely freeze and have to reset the PC myself.

blue page messages one said RQL not less or equal. check hardware. another one mentioned memory management, after it had been on the page where the OS is loading because there is the progress bar.

 

Been having this problem for few weeks but today was the worst. normally i can select F1, startup normally and proceeds to load the pc up.

Although later in the day its normally frozen or rebooted itself

 

Can anyone help, i dont know if its my hard drive, or if its a memory issue, month or so ago I upgraded memory. however i reverted back to lower memory and still get the same issues.

Is a new hard drive required or is the whole system got a problem

 

Promised myself Id look into this sooner before it become so bad that the pc wouldnt work, just like this morning. I only use it for mostly internet, downloading and movies, so i dont think im running too much stuff that it cant cope with my demand

 

 

Hope you can help.... before pc dies again and i cant read any responses :- (

 

Lee

 

PC currently

Dell Dimension - DM061

Intel 2 6300 - 1.86ghz

Memory - 4.5gb

Vista Home Premium - service pack 2

HD - 288gb, 43gb free

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help Lee,

The IRQ less or equal message can be a faulty memory module. to Rule that out, the way forward is to remove all modules except one, then see if it will boot up OK, if not swap that one for one you took out and try again. If it does boot up OK, shut down again then fit one more and try again until the problem reappears, that will be the faulty module.

If non of that does any good, let us know and other things can be tried.

Nev.

[woodland81]

hi,

 

yeah thats what i did, removed some of the memory. dont get the irq message anymore

but still all the other stuff and constant rebooting

[woodland81]

Heres some pics of the error pages

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5361/dsc00517e.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3777/dsc00518c.jpg

[RandyL]

Can you boot into safemode?

[woodland81]

havent tried that yet.

i did try the launch repair but that just caused a reboot and back to the original page