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Windows loads and then computer restards
RoyceSraphim
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So my hard drive fucked up again. I start the computer up and windows goes kind of slow but then it get through that and then the hard drives spins up. I get a black screen and then it restarts. I will have more info when I get home but I think i may need to get a new hard drive.
Anyone got a diagnosis?
Anyone got a diagnosis?
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If so I would try to boot it into Safe Mode to see if there is a conflict causing the windows install to reboot. You get to safe mode by tapping F8 during boot.
Any error codes show?
I tried to load in safe mode but it failed to start again and just restarted.
If it's not that, then yeah, hard drive might be the culprit.
Which version of Windows is this?
I doubt it is the hard drive, or Windows is liable not to load to begin with. Restarting is an odd response to a hard drive issue, too. I'd wager a power problem, or malware.
edit: also, please elaborate on "kind of slow". you don't go to the doctor and say it "kind of aches" :P
I surfed the web a little and I tried running safe mode again but made sure to write down the driver that showed up when it froze and restarted.
system32/avgrkx86.sys
I double checked, that is where it restarts.
The Safe Mode driver list actually shows the driver names when they have finished loading, so the problem is actually in the next listed driver (which is naturally not shown). A quick Google suggests that avgrkx86.sys is normally the last driver to load (with AVG installed), so it's freezing due to loading whatever it needs to display the Safe Mode login screen.
hmm. Have you tried "disable automatic restart upon system failure"? This is the first time you've said that it freezes first then restarts rather than immediately restarting, which implies a very different cause (details like this matter!). Disable automatic restart, then see if it displays a blue screen instead. Then write down whatever error code is given, then tell us :P
Fatal System Error
The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000)
The system has been shut down
Also, try "Last Known Good Configuration", which should also be in the list with Safe Mode.
This particular error generally indicates "your system is fucked, time to reinstall from backup". If you have other computers handy and are willing to do a lot of work, you could try chkdsk /r - CSRSS.exe may be corrupted. Or try transferring copies of CSRSS.exe and winlogon.exe from another XP home install.
The basic problem is this:
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No burners in the house so linux, unbutu will be a problem. Even if it is the hard drive, I won't be able to get a new one or ship the old one for warranty for some time.
1: Repair windows (probably not going to work with my bad luck)
2: Get a USB dongle then load it with linux and try to repair/replace the damaged kernal and save data
3: Reinstall windows (not a good idea since this is the third issue with this particular hard drive and I should mail it in)
4: Get new hard drive and repeat 3
I should also get a portable burner so that I am not completely fucked when this computer is disabled again.
Since you cannot start your system, trying to boot into command prompt will fail. If you have your XP home disc, you can use the recovery console to run chkdsk.
A repair install is not liable to help if there is a disk error.
A linux bootdisc cannot help you repair the error, since there is no NTFS chkdsk equivalent yet. It can help you backup files, though. Since you have multiple computers you can use it to back up across the network or somesuch.
You said you had other computers. Is there anything stopping you from removing the hard drive from this one, installing it in one of the others, using that computer's own Windows install to run chkdsk /r or recovery or whatever, then putting the hard drive back?
Could i take a non-sata drive, one of the bigger ones, and substitute my sata with that?
No, you can't swap IDE 3.5" with SATA 2.5". :P not without an adapter, anyway. If you have an IT shop handy nearby, those can be <$10 (a USB to ide/sata 2.5/3.5" combined adapter. I've got one of these!).
Here are some easy options, depending on your download speed:
5gb USB drive + Windows 7 RC. Boot and just use it to run chkdsk /r. Less finicky than Recovery Console, at least.
XP Home disc. Recovery Console, chkdsk /r
USB drive + Linux. Boot and mount the hard drive, then copy your personal stuff off. Delete personal information. Then RMA the hard drive.
Pick an option!
This. I did the exact same thing on an XP home machine the other day. Booting to the xp recovery console would always work, but it's chkdsk always told me to go to hell. Running from the win 7 (or vista, same thing) dvd, chkdsk finished, told me it fixed stuff and actually did it.
I would say run chkdsk from vista/7 and unless it comes up with multiple bad sectors or other errors, drive should be OK. (also some PC's like Dells have a drive diagnostics option in the boot menu) If the disk checks out, copy your essentials to another usb stick/sd card/whatever and format/reinstall.
The one other possibility is something I've only seen twice. If the NTFS partition was not "cleanly unmounted" after the last windows shutdown. It'll do what you're describing (get just past the XP logo screen and reboot) I've been able to recover that by booting into a recovery console (which will mount the partition and cleanly unmount when you exit).
To reinstall you need the XP home disc.
Of course, you could just pick this time to install Windows 7, but that's up to you :rotate:
Well, you never ran Memtest...
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