Please help!!!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Speculant, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. Speculant

    Speculant The Confused One

    so i rebooted my computer, and my windows xp won't start...

    i can only boot into safe mode!

    pleased help!
     
  2. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Wow. That's what I call a very vague post. How about some details? What, exactly happens in normal mode? It locks up? It reboots? Any error messages? What have you tried so far? Do you have an OS disc to boot to if needed?
    :major
     
  3. Speculant

    Speculant The Confused One

    lol, im really sorry my post was so generic...i was in a hurry, wasn't watching the clock...

    ok, so heres how it is (i'm on my dad's crapper computer typing this w/o any spell check, so bear with me):

    i downloaded nvidia ntune, and ran the stress test on my computer to make sure that everything was stable, and after it ended, i rebooted. after windows loaded up, everything was going well, until about 1 minute into using windows, everything just froze up. i hard rebooted, and once windows loaded, it froze up again. i natually thought that this was caused by the ntune software, so i booted into safe mode and uninstalled it by restoring windows back a day (using system restore), rebooted my computer, and after windows finished loading, insted of going to the logon screen, the screen just turned black and froze up. now even safe mode won't work! i tried arconis partiton manager (bootable cd), and it couldn't load my hard drive, i also tried various hard disk health checkers and analyzers (using the hard drive's S.M.A.R.T., run off a bootable cd also) and they all said that my hard drives health was at 98%!

    what to do???
     
  4. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Typically, this is a driver issue, safe mode does not load drivers, hence i make that assumption. Hopefully you didnt make any chages with Ntune because you need to revert them back if you did, which now means installing it again. Try to install latest Nvidia drivers and see if it comes back.
     
  5. Speculant

    Speculant The Confused One

    Cheers!! I got Windows working again!

    I had to go into safe mode, and then disable all the non-microsoft startup services (via MSCONFIG)

    Now I know for sure that it was ntune that caused the problem, so I'll stay away from that program...
     
  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    That is not a good way to uninstall a program. If you can't get windows to load, boot into safe mode and use the add/remove programs to uninstall the software. Then boot up windows and see if it runs normally.
     

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