Re: Computer frequently freezing - Now dead
Well... um... Things got worse since I last posted... Numbers of freezes were increasing in number, usually occurring while windows is booting or not long after I logged in and things were loading. Thus I searched the internet and found a way to replace system files through the recovery console, and resolved to try that.
I booted up my XP cd, and selected recovery console. I had entered it once before today seeing if had a straightforward method of recovery, it loaded up quick, but I didn't understand it enough, so I exited it. But this time when I entered the recovery console it was extremely slow, sat there for a few minutes while it gave me the message "please wait..." I got up and left for about 20-30 minutes and came back expecting it to be long done, it was on the step of "examining hardware configuration." I was disgusted with it, and thought perhaps the dang CD has frozen. I tried to exit out of it, but to no avail, so I just powered the computer off. Probably the biggest mistake I've ever made, as now when I turn on my PC on... I usually get NOTHING on screen. Totally blank, no input sent to my monitor.
I tried resetting my bios, thinking that maybe somehow a setting was changed in there. No luck. I was stumped, I thought perhaps my BIOS battery was dead, but I've done a bit of research and from what I can see, that saves settings, and I've found no indication that I would lose all computer capabilities. What have I done to my PC?
Well... um... Things got worse since I last posted... Numbers of freezes were increasing in number, usually occurring while windows is booting or not long after I logged in and things were loading. Thus I searched the internet and found a way to replace system files through the recovery console, and resolved to try that.
I booted up my XP cd, and selected recovery console. I had entered it once before today seeing if had a straightforward method of recovery, it loaded up quick, but I didn't understand it enough, so I exited it. But this time when I entered the recovery console it was extremely slow, sat there for a few minutes while it gave me the message "please wait..." I got up and left for about 20-30 minutes and came back expecting it to be long done, it was on the step of "examining hardware configuration." I was disgusted with it, and thought perhaps the dang CD has frozen. I tried to exit out of it, but to no avail, so I just powered the computer off. Probably the biggest mistake I've ever made, as now when I turn on my PC on... I usually get NOTHING on screen. Totally blank, no input sent to my monitor.
I tried resetting my bios, thinking that maybe somehow a setting was changed in there. No luck. I was stumped, I thought perhaps my BIOS battery was dead, but I've done a bit of research and from what I can see, that saves settings, and I've found no indication that I would lose all computer capabilities. What have I done to my PC?
