Windows wont load!

Sandmaster500 · 14 Mar 2006 at 21:47

Left prime 95 running while i went out for a few hours. came back everything was fine, stopped it (didnt exit) - 0 errors. WMP and firefox were also left open. went to quick launch and clicked to show the extra shortcuts. it "depressed" and stayed but didnt show, went to exit prime, nothing, total crash

ctrl + alt + del didnt work, and repeated pressing didnt restart. So pressed reset button and everything seemed fine, got to windows loading screen and that completed, but right after that i get a black (dark grey really) screen and it gets stuck on that.

What should i do?

Thank you for taking the time to read all that lot.

Sandmaster500 · 14 Mar 2006 at 22:14

Ooops, no i haven't, What do i need to press to get to that option window please?

thanks

Sandmaster500 · 14 Mar 2006 at 22:22

No luck

What else can i try? Maybe safe mode, but what if i get in?

thanks very much, going to continue trying tomorrow, off to bed now.

Sandmaster500 · 15 Mar 2006 at 07:43

Just tried safe mode. Comes up with loads of:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System32\ <-Drivers and other things
and the last one says "giveio.sys".

Will try CMOS soon

Thanks for help so far

Sandmaster500 · 15 Mar 2006 at 09:00

Will be less than a month tbh. Had a system crash (PSU died) so i'm thinking possibly this hard drive is a bit iffy. It is a Samsung Spinpoint 200gb. What is samsung's returns like? Fast?

Going to be ordering a new hard drive (was going to be as a 2nd/backup etc) so could get that then send this one off. Will test with some apps after doing a system restore (best bet?).

Thanks