comptuer fails to boot after many tries and if successful, hangs immediately

cbgiacbgia
edited March 2005 in Hardware
hi guys, hope u guys can help me here.

it takes many tries for me to boot my com, many times it jus switches on without booting. at first jus a few tries usually get it started, recently it has worsened to around 1 hour jus sitting there starting and restarting.

even when it starts, it hangs easily. hence i have not shut down for many days for fear of neva seeing the desktop again. this has got to stop though.

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Well, try and see if the ram is bad. Memtest.
  • cbgiacbgia
    edited February 2005
    hi thanx for the tip. tested it out ,the ram's fine. mus be other reasons....

    btw i love ur pic :D
  • cbgiacbgia
    edited February 2005
    realised i posted this thread under the wrong cat. shld have been under 'emergency help'. can the mod help me move it there?

    thanx man.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Your thread is OK where it is. If your system is up and running, albeit with you having to leave it on, Hardware Discussion is fine. If it were to keep crashing, preventing you from using it, then Emergency would be appropriate.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited February 2005
    if you have more than one hard drive make sure they are jumpered correctly. If you dont, and memtest passes fine then you could have a HDD failing intermittantly.
  • cbgiacbgia
    edited February 2005
    Gobbles wrote:
    if you have more than one hard drive make sure they are jumpered correctly. If you dont, and memtest passes fine then you could have a HDD failing intermittantly.

    hi, i have only 1 harddrive, anyway to test whether it's faulty?

    i have just reformatted everything, but the problem comes back after awhile :(
  • rykoryko new york
    edited February 2005
    you can download a utilily from the hdd manufacturer and test your hdd.

    kinda sounds like a faulty psu though??? can you post complete system specs please.
  • cbgiacbgia
    edited March 2005
    ok will try that, thanx :p

    specs:
    AMD Athlon XP 1500+
    1.34 GHz
    512 Mb RAM 2 x Kingston PC 133
    harddisk - MAXTOR 4K040H2

    forgive me if i gave the wrong info, really a novice here :p
  • JSKILLJSKILL
    edited March 2005
    Hey i had a problem similar to this ago. My ram checked out fine and so did my hard drive. In one test i had a HD error. So i was pretty sure it was my hd. So i traded a friend ram for a hd. When he put the ram in his com had problems. So i found out it was my ram all along and i did run memtest. So if you have any additional ram try it. Memtest probably doesnt mess up much but in my case it did.
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