Super Stall
1st Jan 2005, 21:27
Happy New Year,
but not for my comp. Left my puter alone for a few moments whilst surfing, only to return to find it had rebooted. So logged on again. It booted/loaded as far as my desktop without any problems but then after about 15 secs it restarted again with no warnings at all (defo not Sasser, been through that RPC business abot 18 months ago).
This time XP advised there was a prob with C drive and automatically ran DSKCHK (or was it CHKDSK?) which passed all 3 stages.
However on booting same thing happened again this time CHKDSK found a number of corrupted files, but this all flashed pass too quickly to see what was going on. Now Windows wont boot at all.
Pretty sure its not a virus or other nasty as I run a pretty tight ship, but anyway transfered the HD to another comp, checked it for errors/virus/spyware and there appears to be no probs.
Data loss not a problem as I backup to a second HD using Drive Image and any other data has been recovered using second comp and original HD.
Now to the questions.
Is it corrupted windows boot type files that are causing the problems?
Bought the PC from a major supplier and only have a recovery disk. Can I re-install windows from scratch using this? Because.....
I've tried he 3 options to repair from the recovery menu which appears to have been provided by the manufacturer. Cant remember the name of the first but it did nothing. The second was to repair the boot section of windows but failed because the files were too corrupted (that souded serious :uhoh: ). The third was to return to manufacturers original state (I could then recover using image on second HD). This looked promising with much whirring and preparing of files but failed when system rebooted with same problems half way through.
I've recently built a computer so dont mind getting my fingures dirty experimenting and I'm as keen to know how/why as I am to fix it but I've tried googling and once I get into boot disks and command prompts its all a bit beyond me.
Any help/explanations as always gratefully received.
Athlon 3000+
1GB Ballistix
XP SP2
120GB HD
80 GB HD
but not for my comp. Left my puter alone for a few moments whilst surfing, only to return to find it had rebooted. So logged on again. It booted/loaded as far as my desktop without any problems but then after about 15 secs it restarted again with no warnings at all (defo not Sasser, been through that RPC business abot 18 months ago).
This time XP advised there was a prob with C drive and automatically ran DSKCHK (or was it CHKDSK?) which passed all 3 stages.
However on booting same thing happened again this time CHKDSK found a number of corrupted files, but this all flashed pass too quickly to see what was going on. Now Windows wont boot at all.
Pretty sure its not a virus or other nasty as I run a pretty tight ship, but anyway transfered the HD to another comp, checked it for errors/virus/spyware and there appears to be no probs.
Data loss not a problem as I backup to a second HD using Drive Image and any other data has been recovered using second comp and original HD.
Now to the questions.
Is it corrupted windows boot type files that are causing the problems?
Bought the PC from a major supplier and only have a recovery disk. Can I re-install windows from scratch using this? Because.....
I've tried he 3 options to repair from the recovery menu which appears to have been provided by the manufacturer. Cant remember the name of the first but it did nothing. The second was to repair the boot section of windows but failed because the files were too corrupted (that souded serious :uhoh: ). The third was to return to manufacturers original state (I could then recover using image on second HD). This looked promising with much whirring and preparing of files but failed when system rebooted with same problems half way through.
I've recently built a computer so dont mind getting my fingures dirty experimenting and I'm as keen to know how/why as I am to fix it but I've tried googling and once I get into boot disks and command prompts its all a bit beyond me.
Any help/explanations as always gratefully received.
Athlon 3000+
1GB Ballistix
XP SP2
120GB HD
80 GB HD