PC help please

[fundy]

PC crashed and switched itself off earlier. When I try to start it again it offers me either start normally or a windows start up repair option. If I try either the PC shuts itself off again before booting up.

Anything I can try to get it to boot up ?

 

[bobmac]

Did the computer come with any discs ?
If not, PM Imurg, he's your man.

 

[MadAdey]

PC crashed and switched itself off earlier. When I try to start it again it offers me either start normally or a windows start up repair option. If I try either the PC shuts itself off again before booting up.

Anything I can try to get it to boot up ?

sorry to hear that. I had exactly the same thing with my laptop, I got my mate who's savvy with them and it turned out that it had overheated and fried itself. I needed new fans, motherboard, graphics card, processor chip so I threw it away.

have you noticed the fans are running more than often and quite loudly?

Have you tried starting it in maintenance mode. Look it up online, it basically means you start it up while holding something like F7 or which ever key it is for your machine. It will then give you different restore and recovery options, from a soft install that reloads the drivers all the way to a full restore that wipes it clean and puts it back to factory settings.

 

[Imurg]

Did the computer come with any discs ?
If not, PM Imurg, he's your man.

Hell, don't talk to me about it!
I am, to PC repair, what Cyril Smith was to Hang Gliding.....!!!!

It's the other one you want - the one with the floppy Grandad shafts......

 

[bobmac]

the one with the floppy Grandad shafts......

That will be Fragger then.
Apologies, I was still half asleep

 

[Imurg]

That will be Fragger then.
Apologies, I was still half asleep

CVG's getting floppy Grandad's in his new Mizzys - I'm surrounded by them! Help!!!!!!!!!

 

[bobmac]

CVG's getting floppy Grandad's in his new Mizzys - I'm surrounded by them! Help!!!!!!!!!

Don't play with Smiffy then, I think he's onto ladies shafts in his new Pings

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Steve , give this a try
Start and as soon as you hit the button start tapping the F8 key
Opt for safemode, if that boots go to start, run
Type msconfig enter, tools, system restore and roll back a few days to before the problem.

If safemode doesn't work, do the F8 thing above and hit repair my computer

Try system restore from that menu

Shout back if you need more help.

Don't choose system recovery or return to factory settings unless you want to lose all your data

 

[Ian_Bristol]

Very often Pc's overheat as a result of getting too hot because of dust build up through the fans, take the side cover off and suck it out with a hover on the back of the fans and the fins of the heatsink on top of the processor, I have had one that the cement that bonds the heatsink fins to processor had got too hot and just needed replacing. This is the same for a laptop but more harder to access.

 

[Beezerk]

As above really, hopefully it isn't a corrupt HDD so you're data may be fine and should be able to be recovered quite easily.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

This isnt an overheat problem, its windows refusing to start because of a software glitch or a hard drive problem

An overheat would freeze and crash the PC mid startup with no warning, it wouldnt give you fix options, it would just stop and probably shut down

Steve, what is the make, if Dell hit F12 on startup and boot into diagnostics and report back any error messages

 

[fundy]

Steve , give this a try
Start and as soon as you hit the button start tapping the F8 key
Opt for safemode, if that boots go to start, run
Type msconfig enter, tools, system restore and roll back a few days to before the problem.

If safemode doesn't work, do the F8 thing above and hit repair my computer

Try system restore from that menu

Shout back if you need more help.

Don't choose system recovery or return to factory settings unless you want to lose all your data

Cheers Phil, managed to get it to boot into safemode and turned it back a few days and touch wood seems ok

As for brand its not a mainstream brand machine because it was built for me by cube 247 but they went bust recently

 

[Alex1975]

Cheers Phil, managed to get it to boot into safemode and turned it back a few days and touch wood seems ok

As for brand its not a mainstream brand machine because it was built for me by cube 247 but they went bust recently

Might be worth having a look at the event log to see why it got upset. I am guessing you would like to catch it before for example the hard disk dies. Also back up any of your spread sheets or photos you need to retain.

It might be nothing or it might be telling you its ready to fail.

 

[fundy]

Might be worth having a look at the event log to see why it got upset. I am guessing you would like to catch it before for example the hard disk dies. Also back up any of your spread sheets or photos you need to retain.

It might be nothing or it might be telling you its ready to fail.

Cheers mate, Im a little fortunate in that if the HDD goes so be it, its my trading machine so there is literallly nothing on there bar program files, all my stuff is kept on the laptop (and backed up to a separate drive)

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I shall send my bill

 

[chrisd]

I shall send my bill

Send him the entire ruddy duck Phil

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

Very often Pc's overheat as a result of getting too hot because of dust build up through the fans, take the side cover off and suck it out with a hover on the back of the fans and the fins of the heatsink on top of the processor, I have had one that the cement that bonds the heatsink fins to processor had got too hot and just needed replacing. This is the same for a laptop but more harder to access.

Never, ever, ever use a vacuum to suck dust off the delicate parts inside a pc!!!!
Get a cheapo blower from Argos or Maplin instead, much safer.