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| Thread ID: 126420 | 2012-08-26 08:53:00 | Log on Problems - Windows 7 64 bit | Churchy Dude (16875) | Press F1 |
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| 1297107 | 2012-08-26 08:53:00 | Evening All. The good old desktop has been running sweet until I booted it up yesterday, 1st attempt saw it hang on the post screen. 2nd attempt got me to the loading windows screen then it just hung. 3rd attempt managed to get to the log on screen but after entering the password it sat there working away for 30 minutes without anything happening. 4th and final attempt actually logged my onto my profile but I can't get anything to work, none of the programmes will run and if I click on a menu item it just could take 5-10 minutes for anything to happen. I can log on in safe mode and it runs sweetly I've rolled the system back a week without any improvements and I'm not sure where to look next. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
Churchy Dude (16875) | ||
| 1297108 | 2012-08-26 09:04:00 | Have you run a virus scan in safe mode? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1297109 | 2012-08-26 09:07:00 | How old is your system? It could be that you have hardware failure. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1297110 | 2012-08-26 09:12:00 | Built this system around 2 years ago. I'll run the scan and see what it shows. | Churchy Dude (16875) | ||
| 1297111 | 2012-08-26 09:15:00 | Check your PSU for bulging caps. Remove all drives apart from just your hdd/ssd that you are booting from. Also remove all but one sticks of ram (if possible). Run a SMART scan on the HDD to check for errors. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1297112 | 2012-08-26 09:20:00 | Yup sort of sounds like memory or PSU error... | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1297113 | 2012-08-26 10:42:00 | It sound more like a faulty hdd to me. I would be checking that first before hammering it with a virus / malware scan. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1297114 | 2012-08-26 21:37:00 | Thanks Guys, Will try these options out tonight. | Churchy Dude (16875) | ||
| 1297115 | 2012-08-26 22:01:00 | The fact that it runs ok in safe mode would have made me suspect software first, interesting how we all get different Ideas from the described symptoms. But re-reading stalling on POST does sound hardware related. I'd try running memtest first and checking the hdd as suggested but I'd be tempted to try booting off a live linux CD as well if you can get one as a quick way to prove most of the hardware. After that if it passes from Safe mode you can run scandisk on your hard drives, a full virus scan, and a malware scan with spybot and malwarebytes antimalware also. Run Mem-test before Scanning hard drives because faultly RAM can muck up file access and make a drive appear faulty when it isn't. If you think it's hardware related you need to be methodical and eliminate things one by one if possible. If you have more than one RAM chip try them individually and see what happens, disconnect any extra drives and just leave the boot drive, remove any unnecessary add in cards, if you have a graphics card and have the option to swap it or use onboard graphics try that, etc. It's a process of elimination. A visiual inspection looking for any obvious signs can sometimes speed things up, bulging caps as mentioned, burn marks, liquid, funny smells, etc. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1297116 | 2012-08-26 22:30:00 | Could be the hdd if its hanging on the post screen. Had a laptop hdd do the same thing last week. Connected it to this desktop, it had probs detecting the hdd.It took 5-6 mins before win7 would load / with it attached to a port. It was knackered, I couldn't format it either. Does your computer have just the 1 hdd in it, or more installed?? Altho if it boots into safe mode, it maybe something in startup, thats stuffing things up. I would get ccleaner install it in safe mode / networking (that's if it installs), go to tools/startup. Save to text file. Copy and paste the text file in here. So, we can see whats in startup |
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