My computer locks up and won't boot. What do I do?

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Hi i have a time 2000 laptop which was working fine then the screen froze and I couldn't shut down using the alt,ctrl, del task manager as it didn't come up. I turned the machine off by holding down the power switch left it a few minutes and now when i turn it on all I get is a couple of beeps a flash of a green light by the on button the fan whirling but nothing else the screen is dead. Is it heaven for this notebook, i had heard freezing is sometimes useful.

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My pc cant boot up. I have tried to install a new copy of XP and I cant after a XP loads all the driver and reboots I doesnt comple the instalation , I have tried to Repair XP, new Hard Drive, Memory, disconect all the components, new CPU but nothing I still get a blue screen and is not the Blue Screen of Death, because I dont get any errors, it just take me to a black screen there I have all the opcitons if I want to use safe mode, last , normal....... after taht it doesnt matter wich you u select i takes you to a blue escreen with the mouse pointer only, I cant even do Ctrl+Alt+Del I have to shuted down my self. Can some one help me plz... Thanks!!!!

Hi, I'm having a hard time finding anyone else with this same problem. My PC is stuck/frozen at the Black screen where you can select the system to "Start in safe mode", "Start in normal mode", "Start in safe mode with command prompts" etc... When I select one of these and hit enter, NOTHING happens, it just sits on this screen. A friend of mine who is more of a PC expert was able to get into the Bios, use the XP disc and scan and repair the system. He said it did repair and fix what it needed to fix. But when restarting the PC it still gets stuck/locks up at the same black screen with the load "normal,safe" command prompts. It won't go past that screen. He thinks that perhaps when I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat reader the other day I may have messed up the registry somehow. Any thoughts?

Thanks
John

well if any one has the problem when they start there comp. and hangs on a black screen. u might need to buy a new RAM.....it worked for me

hi, im really having a really bad problem with my computer, first of all i'll tell you the details, my computer won't start up property all i hear is the fan and nothing else i don't even hear the beep no more.....i have a clue that might be the cause of this problem...this all started out when i hit my computer accetendy and the computer just froze and stop responding. This happened to me before...i fixed the problem just by hitting it really hard =P and magicly it just started to work again....but now it doesn't work no more....=(
Can Someone plzzz help...meee sorry for the spelling errors im kinda on a rush right now...

Thanks
Mateen

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Hitting your computer is never a good idea and now you know why.

You probably knocked something loose.

If you're technically profficient, you can open the computer and make sure that
all the plugs are seated properly, and that the memory and expansion cards are
all pushed into their slots properly.

If you don't understand that, or it sounds too scary, it's time to take your
machine to a technician.

But stop hitting it.

Leo

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Im having an booting error and, as far as I know, it's some kind of crash depending on an sudden shut down of my computer, that I made. I kept holding in the start/shutdown button, and it just went down. I believe that it is a shutdown command, and that my computer is programmed to do so when I hold the button down. And now, when I try to boot the computer, I get to the black screen with booting alternatives such as "Start in safe mode", "Start in normal mode", "Start in safe mode with command prompts" etc. When I select one of these and hit enter, the Windows XP loading screen comes up, and when it disappears, the computer reboots. And it don't matter how many times I try, or which one of the options I select, it always gets back to the same black screen. I can acces the BIOS menu and advanced booting options and all that, but no matter which one of the advanced options I choose, I always end up on the black screen with booting options. There is one thing I can do though, that not makes the computer reboot, and that is "Inactivate automatic reboot on system failure" and then I get a blue screen with alot of text and the message: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. And all I can do from there is to reboot the computer again and go back to the black screen. Any suggestions?

Thank's in advance

Pete

My Brother's Desktop computer won't start up. My brother was playing a 3D game when it froze(this computer never frezes but crashing happens often)
after that it just booted till it got to the hardware list screen(the one that you get when you start up)then stoped and the next time I tried to start it up just the fans and a black screen no blinking of the hard drive light or floppy disk drive, how ever the cd-rw drive seems to work fine.
I have checked all the power supply and data cables.
I think it's the mother board or the power supply.
Im not sure what his system is
but it has a 900mh AMD prosser

I have an HP machine that the power supply went bad on. I replaced that and now it is booting up. When it gets to the blue/white HP screen it gets hung there for 30-60 seconds. I thought that it could have been the hadr drive but the IDE test came back fine. The RAM has been reseated. I have tried to change the boot sequence and tried to use a USB external CD drive to reformat the HDD. It will not find it. It just boots into Windows XP after the 30-60 second delay. It used to boot right into windowns. Is there something that I can check on the motherboard that may be causing this issue?

thanks

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When my machines spend that long at the Dell logo screen on boot up it's
typically because the BIOS is doing an extended memory test. On many BIOS's
there's an option to do a quicker test - perhaps that setting got reverted in
the change?

Leo

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