HighterDK Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 Saturday night I used my computer normally and turned it off when I went to sleep. When I turned it on sunday morning windows would load, take me to the welcome screen and eve log in using my user. However the only thing I could see as my wallpaper, no explorer. I tried hitting ctrl+alt+del but it didn't work. I rebooted, started in safe mode, and was able to use windows. After removing every program that booted with windows I tried again, but normal boot wouldn't work. I finally gave up and decided to do a COMPLETE format of the entire drive. Reinstalled windows, and yet, the problem persists. Do you know what is this?
LiquidSage Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 even after format and installing a fresh os it still won't boot normal into windows yet allows safe mode? do you have more than 1 os on your system?
HighterDK Posted May 30, 2005 Author Posted May 30, 2005 No, only windows. I thought it might be some kind of hardware error, so I removed all pci cards and only left the video card, still the same problem.
Zxian Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 It does sound like hardware error. Do you see your BIOS screens as before? Any settings in BIOS changed?Disconnect everything except the harddrive, 1 stick of RAM, 1 optical drive, and the keyboard and mouse (connected to PS/2 if possible). Can you boot into WinPE or Knoppix?
HighterDK Posted May 30, 2005 Author Posted May 30, 2005 I haven't tried botting Knoppix since I don't have a copy of it, but I will download. Going to try your other suggestions.
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