I am having a serious problem with my Windows XP Pro SP2 computer. It will not boot into windows at all. When I turn on the computer on, the splash screen comes up, and it does its usual 2 beeps, and then it displays the screen with the various boot options. [safe mode, last known good config etc.] I have tried them all, the same thing happens every time. The Windows XP logo comes up and the its little blue loading bar cycles about 6 times before it all disappears, flashes a message that is visible for about 1/10 of a second, and then restarts. I used a camera to see what this message is, and this is pretty much what it says:
“A problem has been detected and windows had been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this error restart. If this screen appears again follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup utilities, check your Hard Drive Configuration, and check for any [updated] drivers. Run [CHKDISK /S] to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.”
Before I go any further I should say that something like this happened about 2 years ago on this computer. That time it was a “boot volume unbootable” message and after calling my PC company they said the hard drive had died so I got a new one and reinstalled everything and I haven’t had a fatal problem ever since. However I should mention that I am a gamer and I have replaced a few parts recently, about a month ago, I put in a new PSU, and got new RAM because my computer was restarting randomly and performance in games was poor. About the same time I also got a new SATA harddrive and did a clean install of winxp on it, mainly because I needed the room.
Everything has been ok since I installed that new hardware until about an hour or so before Windows XP stopped booting. I was playing a newly installed game that is very graphically demanding and my computer randomly restarted about 10 times within 1 hour while I was playing this. After 1 of those restarts windows did not boot and this bring me to where I am today.
I realize that things do not look so good and I will may have to reinstall windows xp again and maybe even get a new hard drive if this one is shot as well.
That said, I really want to figure out what is causing this problem. I think that it seems likely it’s a hardware problem but I’m unsure where I should look. Having just spent a bit of $$$ on a new PSU, RAM, and hard drive [which are all 1 month old] I have trouble believing any of them are at fault.
To date the only things I have not replaced in my computer are the Mother Board and CPU, do I guess its possible they are to blame?
At any rate I want to apologize for make this post so long, I just want to try and get to the bottom of this, and any ideas are greatly appreciated.
“A problem has been detected and windows had been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this error restart. If this screen appears again follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup utilities, check your Hard Drive Configuration, and check for any [updated] drivers. Run [CHKDISK /S] to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.”
Before I go any further I should say that something like this happened about 2 years ago on this computer. That time it was a “boot volume unbootable” message and after calling my PC company they said the hard drive had died so I got a new one and reinstalled everything and I haven’t had a fatal problem ever since. However I should mention that I am a gamer and I have replaced a few parts recently, about a month ago, I put in a new PSU, and got new RAM because my computer was restarting randomly and performance in games was poor. About the same time I also got a new SATA harddrive and did a clean install of winxp on it, mainly because I needed the room.
Everything has been ok since I installed that new hardware until about an hour or so before Windows XP stopped booting. I was playing a newly installed game that is very graphically demanding and my computer randomly restarted about 10 times within 1 hour while I was playing this. After 1 of those restarts windows did not boot and this bring me to where I am today.
I realize that things do not look so good and I will may have to reinstall windows xp again and maybe even get a new hard drive if this one is shot as well.
That said, I really want to figure out what is causing this problem. I think that it seems likely it’s a hardware problem but I’m unsure where I should look. Having just spent a bit of $$$ on a new PSU, RAM, and hard drive [which are all 1 month old] I have trouble believing any of them are at fault.
To date the only things I have not replaced in my computer are the Mother Board and CPU, do I guess its possible they are to blame?
At any rate I want to apologize for make this post so long, I just want to try and get to the bottom of this, and any ideas are greatly appreciated.