Ok, a while ago, my PC worked fine until one day I booted and it was extremely slow loading all startup programs. Eventually it froze up completely and I was forced to restart. Every time I rebooted it would restart itself whilst the loading screen for windows came up, or get through to the login screen but have mouse disabled, OR actually select my login but only ever load my desktop picture after hours and nothing more.
I tried to use my windows disk but to no avail. There was a file error. Anyway somehow through the cmd I got it to check the disks etc and it worked fine after a blue screen which checked files in 3 steps (I forget how I got this).
Then once again after a couple of weeks I am on my computer when it suddenly lags badly, grinds to a halt and everything freezes. I am shortly after forced to restart it. This time however just before the windows loading screen bit it says
"A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".
Now once again I cannot run the windows disk due to the same error, (I will get the name if necessary.) Furthermore beforehand I was able to boot in safe mode (i.e press F8, select the boot device, then press F8 some more and then get the list of CMD, last known config, safe mode etc etc), whereas now, I get the error prior to this. As far as I can tell, all I can do is play with the BIOS on the computer, which I know a bit about but not enough to know a blatant error. Needless to say I have tried resetting to optimal settings on the BIOS.
I have a Q660 Quad Core Processor and ATI Radeon x1300/x1550 series GPU, 4gigs of RAM on XP SP3.
Thanks for any help in advanced and please let me know any more info required.
P.S. Incidentally it was whilst playing the PC game Mount&Blade that both these problems occurred, although in the meantime I had no problems with it.
Dave.
I tried to use my windows disk but to no avail. There was a file error. Anyway somehow through the cmd I got it to check the disks etc and it worked fine after a blue screen which checked files in 3 steps (I forget how I got this).
Then once again after a couple of weeks I am on my computer when it suddenly lags badly, grinds to a halt and everything freezes. I am shortly after forced to restart it. This time however just before the windows loading screen bit it says
"A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".
Now once again I cannot run the windows disk due to the same error, (I will get the name if necessary.) Furthermore beforehand I was able to boot in safe mode (i.e press F8, select the boot device, then press F8 some more and then get the list of CMD, last known config, safe mode etc etc), whereas now, I get the error prior to this. As far as I can tell, all I can do is play with the BIOS on the computer, which I know a bit about but not enough to know a blatant error. Needless to say I have tried resetting to optimal settings on the BIOS.
I have a Q660 Quad Core Processor and ATI Radeon x1300/x1550 series GPU, 4gigs of RAM on XP SP3.
Thanks for any help in advanced and please let me know any more info required.
P.S. Incidentally it was whilst playing the PC game Mount&Blade that both these problems occurred, although in the meantime I had no problems with it.
Dave.