Windows wont start up normally - HELP

panyan · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:14

Ever since i turned off the page file on my Home PC, it has had difficulty starting up

I have No Gui Boot and also No pagefile, the blue dots used to show up and then a load of other colour pixels along the top of the screen, the system used to restart and then it would log-in fine

Today windows just refuses to boot windows, it just keeps saying:

Repair windows (recommended)
Start Windows normally

And every time i select "start windows normally" the system just reboots and i am back to the Repair windows/start normally screen

HELP PLEASE!

thanks you

Hyburnate · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:18

Repair windows? Run a new install?

tidusjar · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:24

So now it will not boot at all? Fans wont even spin? What PSU have you got?

panyan · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:26

tidusjar said:
So now it will not boot at all? Fans wont even spin? What PSU have you got?

fans spin, etc - the hardware is fine i think, the problem is that wheneven windows tries to start, it just reboots in a loop

tidusjar · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:28

Ok, I'd think it would be a corrupt windows install. Try re-installing.
But it could be the PSU not providing enough power to the HDD's on Boot. Before a re install i would recommend trying a different PSU in your system if you can.

panyan · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:33

tidusjar said:
Ok, I'd think it would be a corrupt windows install. Try re-installing.
But it could be the PSU not providing enough power to the HDD's on Boot. Before a re install i would recommend trying a different PSU in your system if you can.

its not the psu - i have the CX600 and it is running very few components, im only drawing 170W on boot

The problem is, if i try to reinstall, i would have to wipe all my data becuase there isnt enough space to install windows WITH its page file - it is only a 30GB Vertex