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154819 2003-06-24 22:58:00 my beloved PC comp has a problem !!!!!!!

it took nearly 15 mins to start / boot from cold start today and then it hung it self in this process and had to restart it..

any ideas why?

i did a defrag yesterday and all seemed fine before i shut it down, but have been doing a fea hours on this thing trying to get my essay done (Due tomorow ) and yesterday it lost half a page of stuff cos it shut down on me,

any ideas why ? i have not added anything, did adaware run twice yesterday and avg and did a nortons system scan for virus' but found nothing major.

any ideas?
as i dont want to lose any info on here as some is work accounting,
and my home work, i saved stuff yesterday just incase.

slow to sometimes respond to left / right clicks of mouse.


tell me something simple and hopefully all better ( like hell probably)
dreams are free.

xp home
IE 6
26 % memory used.

havent moved it and cant hear any undue noise's

?
please can some one help me?

beetle 		beetle (243)
154820 2003-06-24 23:17:00 can you give any idea at what stage of the boot process the puter was at when she started to choke?

And how old is the machine?

Does it boot fine once its up and running? 		metla (154)
154821 2003-06-24 23:31:00 october last year we got it.

not good at that sort of info but this is how i remember it, how it seemed to go anyway.

first screen up then next one saying something about disk check (not seen this version of it before) all in boxes, black background, hole page taken up.

then just went blank.
no nothing, not even light saying puter is working. just power light, and it sat there for ages. 3-4 mins before i gave up and restarted it did same thing but was even slower next time round and then cam up erroe in windows or something may need to sart in safe mode have i changed anything ? configurations etc go back to last settings when stable etc

and while i was still reading that start to do like checks normal system check stuff

took a good ten minutes, or more i went away and was on phone for work for a short time so missed the next bit and when came back only had 5 lines on a new screen still doing system windows check.

then once that screen done
when to a blue windows screen

sp1 and windows stuff partitians? not sure wot else
never remeber to write it all down and then its went to black screen

checking disk / files
memory?

and then blank and finally log in screen but not able to use yet still going through startup ?

do you think the cold may have affected it?

does get slower when cold but not this cold?

what shows up as power surge problems?

a very sad :(


beetle 		beetle (243)
154822 2003-06-24 23:32:00 oh and ps i havent tried a reboot, its going at moment so i not rushed at the idea of shutting / restarting at moment.

is this a bad idea?

beetle 		beetle (243)
154823 2003-06-24 23:57:00 well,i would be taking the oppertunity to back up everything you dont want to lose.

Could be signs of an imminent harddrive failure. 		metla (154)
154824 2003-06-25 00:05:00 I heard that shutting down you PC everyday isn't the best thing for it. It can wreck your pc. Its like a car engine...cold starts are not good for them, same with the circuits in a pc - especially seeing its winter. But I could be wrong, only what I heard :)

Did you open the case up to adjust anything recently or add anything? 		PoWa (203)
154825 2003-06-25 00:54:00 Run adaware and spybot thru the PC also window washer and regcleaner kiwibeat (304)
154826 2003-06-25 00:56:00 www.simplysup.com

is also a freee trial prog worth looking at 		kiwibeat (304)
154827 2003-06-25 01:28:00 > well,i would be taking the oppertunity to back up
> everything you dont want to lose.

Beetle does not understand how to backup her computer & she cannot understand the FAQ on it, that is what she told me on Yahoo Messenger when she had her last lot of problems ;) 		stu140103 (137)
154828 2003-06-25 01:42:00 :p all smart comments about beetle cant because.... and yes im blonde...

:D no offence but i am still learning and reread those sort of things when have time and i understand some of it.....enough to get by. and save things

i do save info to disk but if that is back up then i do, :p

but your um inference that i leave it unning ? is that an option?
that is what killed the work one one it was running it got zapped big time, electronics smell when burnt dont smell good ok? so dont want to do that again.

ill look at prog after this OK?

but would it be something that simple cold? so put blanket over it at night?

its in the lounge, and our house is cold, (for humans) and it has block walls supposed to keep it warmer not!

cant remember any other comments made

but what is the difference between saving to disk and back up?

saved most important stuff, the rest can go he if lost dont need some of it anyway, and the other stuff probably dont use it.

and restart at 12.30 was ok not as fast as norm but ok, 2mins maybe ?

beetle 		beetle (243)
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