Computer Not Booting to Windows - Pics! Help!

[OdiN]

WINDOWS\CONFIG\SYSTEM -

This is your system registry. If it is corrupt...no windows will not load at all. This is usually a hard drive or memory problem. Basically the data in the registry is screwed. This can be cuased by hard drive or memory. Other things too, but that is the most likely cause.

Do a repair install as suggested (the second one...the first option for repair is via the recovery console, which you do not want).

The only problem you may run into is that your programs will have to be reinstalled and you will lose your user settings. No big deal. But your data will still be there. HOWEVER, sometimes you will not have admin rights to it since your newly installed OS will have a new user with a new SID. If you are using XP Pro, it's an easy task to get access to data again and I can tell you how to do it. If using XP Home, you will have to put the drive in another computer.

But...you still need to find out what is the root cause of this. Whether there is a damaged area on the hard drive or the memory is bad.

Overclocking could have caused this easily - but going back to default settings WILL NOT fix it if the data has already been corrupted because of the overclock. So your hardware may be fine, but your OC may have caused this error.

 

[Googer]

Take some better pictures of the screen> USE a FASTER shutter speed or the sport mode on your camera, place some lights behnin you but not shining directly on to the screen (it will cause glare), and PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE OF THE WHOLE F-NG THING CORNER SHOTS DO NOT HELP ME HELP YOU.

thanks.

 

[pcgeek11]

Your registry is corrupted.
Go here and follow the procedure:
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_repair_a_missing_or_cor2.htm

By the way this was easy to locate using the search function. Searched for: windows/system32/config/system.

pcgeek11

 

[wpshooter]

Originally posted by: OdiN
WINDOWS\CONFIG\SYSTEM -

This is your system registry. If it is corrupt...no windows will not load at all. This is usually a hard drive or memory problem. Basically the data in the registry is screwed. This can be cuased by hard drive or memory. Other things too, but that is the most likely cause.

Do a repair install as suggested (the second one...the first option for repair is via the recovery console, which you do not want).

The only problem you may run into is that your programs will have to be reinstalled and you will lose your user settings. No big deal. But your data will still be there. HOWEVER, sometimes you will not have admin rights to it since your newly installed OS will have a new user with a new SID. If you are using XP Pro, it's an easy task to get access to data again and I can tell you how to do it. If using XP Home, you will have to put the drive in another computer.

But...you still need to find out what is the root cause of this. Whether there is a damaged area on the hard drive or the memory is bad.

Overclocking could have caused this easily - but going back to default settings WILL NOT fix it if the data has already been corrupted because of the overclock. So your hardware may be fine, but your OC may have caused this error.

I agree, you need to find out what root cause of problem is before trying to fix. If not, you may wind up having problem all over again, i.e. what is cause corruption in first place hard drive problems or being caused by overclocking !!!

Still might want to try doing diagnostic on hard drive first. I will see if I can figure out how CD version works, when I get a chance and post. You don't happen to have a floppy drive laying around you could stick in machine - that would be simpler. The suggestions about trying to fix registry might work, but by the time you figure all of that out, you could probably have done a complete fresh re-installation of windows.

 

[OdiN]

Yeah pcgeek11's method should work most of the time. Not everyone uses system restore. That and the backups from the repair folder may not work, but the ones from system restore should.

 

[wpshooter]

Originally posted by: wpshooter

Originally posted by: OdiN
WINDOWS\CONFIG\SYSTEM -

This is your system registry. If it is corrupt...no windows will not load at all. This is usually a hard drive or memory problem. Basically the data in the registry is screwed. This can be cuased by hard drive or memory. Other things too, but that is the most likely cause.

Do a repair install as suggested (the second one...the first option for repair is via the recovery console, which you do not want).

The only problem you may run into is that your programs will have to be reinstalled and you will lose your user settings. No big deal. But your data will still be there. HOWEVER, sometimes you will not have admin rights to it since your newly installed OS will have a new user with a new SID. If you are using XP Pro, it's an easy task to get access to data again and I can tell you how to do it. If using XP Home, you will have to put the drive in another computer.

But...you still need to find out what is the root cause of this. Whether there is a damaged area on the hard drive or the memory is bad.

Overclocking could have caused this easily - but going back to default settings WILL NOT fix it if the data has already been corrupted because of the overclock. So your hardware may be fine, but your OC may have caused this error.

I agree, you need to find out what root cause of problem is before trying to fix. If not, you may wind up having problem all over again, i.e. what is cause corruption in first place hard drive problems or being caused by overclocking !!!

Still might want to try doing diagnostic on hard drive first. I will see if I can figure out how CD version works, when I get a chance and post. You don't happen to have a floppy drive laying around you could stick in machine - that would be simpler. The suggestions about trying to fix registry might work, but by the time you figure all of that out, you could probably have done a complete fresh re-installation of windows.

Ryboy:

Here is the link to Western Digital download for the diagnostic for your drive:

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=1&swid=30

Just use your good computer to download the zip file version to c:\download\raptor-diagnostics\

Use Winzip to unzip the file to the directory above, then copy/burn the 2.12 mb ISO file to a blank/formatted CD.

Take that CD to your bad computer, start the computer, go into BIOS when it starts, set the CD-rom drive of your computer as the first boot drive, place the CD that you created into your CD-drive, exit out of the BIOS and make sure you save your changes and the computer should boot to the CD and give you the software you need to diagnose your hard drive for problems.

Let us know the status of your drive when you finish running complete diagnostics.

Good luck.