Ok, a few days ago when it was really hot and my air conditioner wasn't on, my computer started crashing. It would just freeze up while I was using it, or possibly even while scan-disking upon bootup.
Eventually I booted up and my sound card disappeared. Rebooted, and before instead of going to the logon screen, I just get a blank screen.
At first upon trying to boot up into safe mode with network support, I could log on as adminstrator but the OS would never finish loading. I could do ctrl, alt, delete, but going to run and then typing explorer did not bring up the GUI.
I figured it must be a hardware problem, like a stick of ram died. I tried booting up with each stick though, and the same stuff occured each time.
Finally I tried booting up into safe mode without network support. It found my sound card and installed my drivers, and successfully booted all the way into windows. I then rebooted into safe mode with networking support and it still didn't bring up the gui, but this time going to run and then explorer finished loading windows and from that point on it loaded successfully. However, booting up normally still won't even get me to the log on screen. Anyone have any idea what I could try to fix it? I'd imagine the audio drivers weren't the only things corrupted when the computer was messing up, perhaps I'd be best just wiping the partition and starting over. (I could even play with a Vista install!)
Eventually I booted up and my sound card disappeared. Rebooted, and before instead of going to the logon screen, I just get a blank screen.
At first upon trying to boot up into safe mode with network support, I could log on as adminstrator but the OS would never finish loading. I could do ctrl, alt, delete, but going to run and then typing explorer did not bring up the GUI.
I figured it must be a hardware problem, like a stick of ram died. I tried booting up with each stick though, and the same stuff occured each time.
Finally I tried booting up into safe mode without network support. It found my sound card and installed my drivers, and successfully booted all the way into windows. I then rebooted into safe mode with networking support and it still didn't bring up the gui, but this time going to run and then explorer finished loading windows and from that point on it loaded successfully. However, booting up normally still won't even get me to the log on screen. Anyone have any idea what I could try to fix it? I'd imagine the audio drivers weren't the only things corrupted when the computer was messing up, perhaps I'd be best just wiping the partition and starting over. (I could even play with a Vista install!)
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