PC wont boot up once it hits the windows loading screen. i can open the boot menu screen, diagnostics, and the rest of the start up options. gets to black screen where the choice of "start windows normally" and "start windows in safe mode" and other options should be, but the only options are "start windows normally" and "launch start repair". starting windows normally starts the windows loading screen for a second or two before quickly stuttering and flashing to a blue screen and restarting itself. I have not launched the repair because im pretty sure doing a system restore gets rid of personal files (pictures, etc.). any help would be appreciated. prior to this failure to start the PC had problems waking up from sleep mode, and i'd have to unplug/plugin the power chord to get it to power on again. Ran AVG virus scans regularly.
A Blue Screen is more time than not indicative of a driver issue or some hardware issue. First of all when it boots to the screen that shows Safe Mode and the other options, scroll down and see if there is an option to Stop or Disable Automatic Restart on Boot. This will stop the screen from restarting itself when the blue screen appears and give you a chance to read and see what the error is. Afterwards it is ok to run Startup Repair. Startup Repair does not delete any of your personal files. Let startup repair run and then see if it boots. Once again, startup repair does not delete any of your music, documents, pictures, videos or programs. System Restore does not delete any of you documents, music, pictures, videos or programs. System Recovery WILL DELETE all of your music, pictures, videos, documents & any programs you've added since you brought the computer home from the store. System Recovery sets your computer back to the very first time you turned it on after you purchased it. I would run the startup repair, if that does not fix your problem, see if you can run a System Restore. A lot of time the Restore Points are damaged or missing when this happens, but give it a try and restore to a point before you started having the blue screen issue. If all fails you're going to need a system disc so that you can get into the Recovery Console so that you can enter a dos command in the little black box that opens up with white letters. You want to type: chkdsk /r
Let it run. It will run well over an hour and you will notice the percentage of completion going from high to low, but that's ok. Let it run to completion then try rebooting. If this doesn't work, you're going to need to take it to a repair shop or reload the operating system yourself.
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SOURCE: Blue screen when starting up
just double check the keyboard connection if it's ps2 type connector; if it's a usb mouse it won't work cos the drivers have not loaded. Only other solution is to remove right side panel of pc and locate the JBAT1 terminal and move jumper from pins 1-2 to pins 2-3 for a few seconds and back again. Turn on pc and then hopefully you can access the bios to set the time and date and save settings then re start.
SOURCE: Start up Probelms HP Pavilion Slimline
I'm the same guest from before and I've got my slimline back up and running. I found the solution somewhere else, can't remember where as I was on someone else's computer, but suggested a boot up problem with some USB devices. One suggestion was to power the computer down, unplug all USB devices and power it up again. The only USB device I had was an HP all-in-one printer/scanner. I unplugged that and the computer booted right up. Hope this helps!!
SOURCE: Computer failure - HP a1120n - Wont enter safe mode, wont restore
If you can from another computer download Ultimate boot cd or Hiren's boot cd. There are tools on the cd that can help you recover data or diagnose any hard drive problems or system problems.
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