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| Thread ID: 41074 | 2003-12-29 09:21:00 | Time to call in the Big Guns :-) | Tobas (224) | Press F1 |
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| 203900 | 2003-12-31 06:24:00 | Well maybe Natasha's life can be spared afterall :-) Have now reached the stage where POST completes OK The Windows splash screen displays but about 5 secs later, the message "it is Ok to switch off now", words to effect and it shuts down. The same applies if I try to boot into safe mode and if I use a boot disk in A drive. Noticed just before the shutdown message was shown, there was an indication of some sort of message, but far too brief to read. OK, it took awhile, but with much hitting the pause button, followed by enter, if there was no message - bingo, I stopped the boot with "Error, user.exe failed to load", words to effect. Ah huh - back to this computer, which runs the same op sys and using file find, found user.exe. Question is, can I copy the file (it's small) to a floppy and somehow shove it into Natasha, therefore solving the problem :-) :-) Word to the wise - stay away from cars tonight, especially if booze is involved - we want to see everyone reporting for duty tomorrow, take care, but have a good one. :-) Till next year. |
Tobas (224) | ||
| 203901 | 2003-12-31 06:28:00 | Damn, forgot to look for new posts before my latest post. capacitors all look fine, but then again mine are rather old, the problem of leaking/ busted caps are mainly with newer ones. But thanks for the heads up warning. The best for the new year. :-) |
Tobas (224) | ||
| 203902 | 2003-12-31 07:05:00 | You may be able to copy user.exe, but as far as I know the chances of it working aren't very high. It sounds like a virus or something has deleted key system files, stopping windows from loading properly. Although, a dying hard drive could also be contributing to the loss of these files. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 203903 | 2003-12-31 10:17:00 | Hi Somebody, I figured trying to copy the file might not work. But it was worth the post to avoid reinstalling the OS. Interesting though, the computer has two HDD's, one is a ghost image of the other, yet neither work and simply switch off shortly after the windows splash screen. starting to suspect there is more to this than it looks. Probably no virus as it has not been connected to the net for years. Oh well, tomorrows another day. Thanks. |
Tobas (224) | ||
| 203904 | 2003-12-31 19:40:00 | Two ideas I just thought of: 1) Get to the startup menu (where you can select safe mode), and see if you can find something along the lines of "Step by Step Confirmation". I know this option exists in WinXP, as it allows you to see exactly what the PC is doing. Then you can see which step it gets to in the bootup process before your PC shuts down. 2) Use your WinME setup CD, and see if it has a "Repair" function. If so, it would just replace damaged/missing system files (eg. user.exe), and leave your programs/data/settings intact. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 203905 | 2004-01-01 07:52:00 | Bingo Somebody, your second suggestion worked a treat, the ME CD. Natasha now revived - and she thanks you as I do also :-) Now just have to put things back into place as the repair stuffed a few things up, but no big deal. |
Tobas (224) | ||
| 203906 | 2004-01-01 08:06:00 | Great to hear it worked. Glad I could help. I'm still unsure of the cause of your PC having this problem in the first place. The only causes I can think of at the moment are either a virus/trojan, or the hard drive is failing. It will pay to do regular backups of important data, as lost data can be very very annoying, and in a business situation, can result in lost revenue. Keep an Antivirus program running on your PC (if you don't have one, AVG Antivirus Free Edition has been recommended by many PF1 users), and keep an eye out for suspicious things happening with your PC - it may be signalling a replay of this problem. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 203907 | 2004-01-02 10:27:00 | In my view - Windows ME and XP are insane and weird. i have XP, and one day - for totally no reason, it just deleted half my control panel icons. the associating .CPL files were sitting in the recycle bin, in plain view. no, i didnt delete them myself, and noone else uses my computer. no viruses, or hackers, because i didnt have the internet at the time. i reckon its a timed event built into windows so you have to get bill gates to fix it and he charges $3 million to fix it.. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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