Computer Broke Down URGENT

[purerealm]

My computer started turning off at random recently, but two days ago I was playing a computer game and it just turned off. The only thing is, it never came back on.
I went out and got a compusa 300 watt power supply and installed it. Now it boots to the screen that gives me a choice to boot from safe mode, last working configuration, or normal boot.

no matter what I choose, the computer just hangs, and refuses to go no further. I never get to the splash screen.

The computer is a p4 2.4 ghz and a crappy motherboard from Fry's computers.

Please help I desperately need my computer back.

 

[purerealm]

and when I choose safe mode, it starts to show the modules or whatever that are loading and it gets to multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\TDI.SYS and then hangs there.

 

[purerealm]

Also, when it hangs the hard drive indicator light is not on

 

[mchammer]

Could be spyware or a virus provided the hardware is ok. First make a bootable CD and test the hardware and memory, etc. I don't know much about spyware problems, but it may be possible to scan with a bootable CD. Also, the drive could be moved to another PC and scanned there or the important data could be copied off and the drive erased and then Windows reinstalled. You would have to be careful not too infect the PC you move it too, though. I'm sure others here will know more after the morning comes.

 

[Fern]

If the PSU went out it could have corrupted your OS install/HDD.

Might get the drive fitness proggie from the manufacturer of the HDD and boot to it to check out the HDD.

Might try a repair install if using winXP or 2k. If using 98se just reinstall over top of existing install. No data or proggies will be lost etc.

Fern

 

[amdskip]

You have a crappy new power supply and it sounds like windows is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.

 

[birdpup]

I agree with the above statements. You can read Power Supply 101 for more information on power supplies.

 

[PokerGuy]

I've seen power failures mess up windows installations in the past before. Often you can just boot into the windows console, run checkdisk, and it might repair the file structure issues. If not, you can do a 'repair' install of windows to see if that takes care of the issue.

As a general rule, I would not put a cheapo generic 300watt PS in a computer you plan to use. If you just have some spare parts and you're building a linux box or box sitting in a corner, that's fine, but for your 'main' machine, stick with a good power supply.