When I turn my computer off and attempt to turn on, the computer doesn't boot; however, it will boot if I restart without turning it off. I have a heck of time getting it to boot from the off position. I have reformatted the hard drive and reloaded thinking maybe I had some software that was causing this. What could be causing this? The computer works fine as long as I don't need to turn the thing off.
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what os are you using? if you have the tag still attached, download and run belarc advisor (from cnet or do a simple search). you can then install and run the program, write down the serial number for the os (xp, mem, 2000, etc). if the serial number has an oem in it, it means it needs to be re-installed using an oem cd. (any oem cd can be used, so long as you use the key provide on your windows coa tag). if it came with original retail discs, any retail disc will re-install the os using your same coa.
if the pc is already able to be usable as is, and just needs to have programs and other files removed, re-installing windows is not needed.
just go to start, settings, control panel, add/remove programs and remove any that you don't need. you can then delete any files and folders for things you have saved to the computer and longer want to keep. otherwise you can just save them to cd/dvds for later use.
there are two other options you may also want to consider.
first, once you determine the type of windows that you have, and saved the product key from the belarc advisor (print it if you can so as to have it handy), you can go to ebay and purchase a cd without a coa (certificate of authenticity) for a few dollars, (usually under $5), or you can switch to a linux os (free open source software os such as ubuntu) and install it, unfortunately i don't know if they have a media plaing program available that operates under linux systems.
hope this is of some help to you.
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Your shredder may have deleted the MBR (see http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm for repair tools)
Also the disk partitions may not be recovered by your cd so they will have to be reinstated using PartitionMagic or, if you know how to use it, fdisk in c:\windows\command
Check your disk controller settings and drive types in the setup screen available before booting.
The software is unable to read/write to the drives possibly because of a drive type error or the type of interface selected for the controller in setup.
ATA33 drives have problems on ATA66 settings etc....
If your motherboard was failing it would not correctly select the drive types at boot. It would report
DRIVE C: <none>
and u would get a boot failure.
If you got as far as the setup for your recovery CD I would be surprised if the motherboard was failing.
Swap your DVD to the old Drive cable and try to boot from it. If the controller on the motherboard is bad it wont boot.
Check your cables for damage too..
Hope this helps
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Have a look at these for more info:
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/3D2F91493F7B80D5CA256EA80038C9A7
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/installwindowsxp.aspx
http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/geek-to-live-how-to-format-your-hard-drive-and-install-windows-xp-from-scratch-157578.php
I hope that helps.
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Hi. the mother board seems to be having some initialization issues during boot up. this is common when the mother board is failing. i would check to make sure the battery on this board is working. if it is, the board my be ruined.
power board seems to be fine.
please rate and god bless.
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