Hello all,
This is my last resort to figure out why Bert (my computer) is dieing on me.
He is a 1 year old computer with Windows Vista 64 bit (Instal, not upgrade) Service pack 1, with 4 gb of Ram, a 500gb hard drive, and a 3.0GHz quad-core processor.
Lately, ive had troubles with him though,
It doesn't always start up correctly, and freezes on the Microsoft loading page, with the green loading bar.
When i try to start it in safe mode.. you'll all reconize this next part: It gets stuck on Crcdisk.sys (Yes, that infamous problem)
Ive googled the subject till i was blue in the face, and ive managed to get it to start up again (only 50% of the time) by doing the following:
I try to start up the computer, it freezes on the loading page
I hold the power button for 4 seconds to turn it off
Turn off the power bar
Press Bert's power button to drain any residual power
Turn on the power bar
Turn on Bert, and it starts properly.
So problem 1 is, id like to figure out how to fix the crcdisk.sys problem permanently, and the second problem is arguably worse:
When i do manage to turn it on, the computer is extremely unresponsive. It will freeze doing ANYTHING (Opening folders/files, Opening/closing windows, Opening/closing Firefox, or Internet Explorer, Loading anything in firefox or internet explorer... Basically anything that a computer can do, will freeze it.)
It will freeze, and the window will "Not responding", and sometimes if i wait a good 30 seconds - 2 minutes, it will unfreeze, but this is not guarenteed, and i often have to restart the computer (while doing the whole power bar thing)
I do own the Windows Vista disk, (I built this computer myself) and i have tried the repair function, but i do not want to reformat the computer, because as you can all understand, i have things on here i dont want to loose (that cant be transfered to an external hard drive)
As a side note, i have also ran what i beleive to be was a Chkdisk. I unplugged the HDD's power cable, and plugged it back in, the computer reconised it as a new piece of hardware, and runs an automatic check on it. The check DOES come up with various problems, they are fixed automatically, and the computer will start. (Only that one time though. If i turn it off and back on again, it resumes the problems from before.)
ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you.
This is my last resort to figure out why Bert (my computer) is dieing on me.
He is a 1 year old computer with Windows Vista 64 bit (Instal, not upgrade) Service pack 1, with 4 gb of Ram, a 500gb hard drive, and a 3.0GHz quad-core processor.
Lately, ive had troubles with him though,
It doesn't always start up correctly, and freezes on the Microsoft loading page, with the green loading bar.
When i try to start it in safe mode.. you'll all reconize this next part: It gets stuck on Crcdisk.sys (Yes, that infamous problem)
Ive googled the subject till i was blue in the face, and ive managed to get it to start up again (only 50% of the time) by doing the following:
I try to start up the computer, it freezes on the loading page
I hold the power button for 4 seconds to turn it off
Turn off the power bar
Press Bert's power button to drain any residual power
Turn on the power bar
Turn on Bert, and it starts properly.
So problem 1 is, id like to figure out how to fix the crcdisk.sys problem permanently, and the second problem is arguably worse:
When i do manage to turn it on, the computer is extremely unresponsive. It will freeze doing ANYTHING (Opening folders/files, Opening/closing windows, Opening/closing Firefox, or Internet Explorer, Loading anything in firefox or internet explorer... Basically anything that a computer can do, will freeze it.)
It will freeze, and the window will "Not responding", and sometimes if i wait a good 30 seconds - 2 minutes, it will unfreeze, but this is not guarenteed, and i often have to restart the computer (while doing the whole power bar thing)
I do own the Windows Vista disk, (I built this computer myself) and i have tried the repair function, but i do not want to reformat the computer, because as you can all understand, i have things on here i dont want to loose (that cant be transfered to an external hard drive)
As a side note, i have also ran what i beleive to be was a Chkdisk. I unplugged the HDD's power cable, and plugged it back in, the computer reconised it as a new piece of hardware, and runs an automatic check on it. The check DOES come up with various problems, they are fixed automatically, and the computer will start. (Only that one time though. If i turn it off and back on again, it resumes the problems from before.)
ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you.