System crashes on start-up: XP Closed

Question

Hello,

I've been having a problem where my pc will boot up as far as telling me Windows had a problem starting up and asking me what to do (safe mode, last good config, etc) but whatever I choose, it goes to a black screen and restarts the system again.

If I keep on restarting the system it won't work but sometimes if I leave it a few hours it'll somehow just start up like nothing happened, then I'll have the same problem later.  This has been happening more and more frequently and I was wondering what the cause was and what i could do about it?

Thanks,
RabidImp

xpcman · Accepted Answer

could be bad memory or a hard drive that is going bad.  Most likely it's the hard drive.  Replace the hard drive reload Windows - install the old drive as an aux drive (be sure to change the jumper to "slave") and try to copy your data files from old drive to new drive.  The old hard drive should be discarded after you have retrieved your data.  It will only continue  to get worse until it totally fails.

jason · Answer

what did u do to fix the prob....the same thing is happening to my laptop.

Donna-Marie · Answer

i have the same problem too, ??

Wally A · Answer

Problem solved here.  In my case removing one of the two 512 MB sticks of ram allowed me to boot normally.  When I removed one it prompted me for a repair disk but when I removed the other I was able to get beyond the windows xp loading screen where it would crash to blue screen and auto restart before.  


Before I got to this point I had tried two other hard drives with windows xp which both gave similar results.  I also tried to load xp pro.  Both would work fine up until windows would try to load.  The consistent errors across multiple versions of windows and multiple HD's led me to believe it was a faulty unit of RAM.

dunnoic · Answer

Hello all, yes i'm facing the same problem on my desktop.
But there are some important documents in the desktop itself so i was wondering is there any way i can retrieve my documents back? even for a temporary moment before the whole comp crashes completely.
Thank you.

Erik · Answer

Maybe this is to late for you since your post is over a week old. 

I would either try booting with a ubuntu live cd, so that you can backup your documents. Or you can remove the harddrive and stick it into a working computer.

good luck.

Dennis Perry · Answer

Hi,

i think there may be prob of hard drive..as u r saying it appears again after u restart PC..!!
You should defrag and optimize ur hard drive..as it may causes system crashes..For this u can use "Advanced System Optimizer" ...its tool named Disk tools enables u in finding hard disk errors, see hard disk information, check hard disk health, analyze hard disk health & Disk Optimizer helps u in Registry fragmentation or hard disk fragmentation..!!

Helps a lot ...try it..!!

https://download.cnet.com/Advanced-System-Optimizer/3000-2094_4-10147659.html?tag=mncol

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