My computer keeps restarting on me. Not this one, but another laptop my mom owns. Anyways, I don't know if it's spyware or what, because I always delete it all with my norton, ad-aware, and microsoft anti-spyware programs. However, my computer still restarts before I can really do anything on it. It's not that blaster virus with a countdown, because there is no countdown. What happens is, a blue screen shows up with a lot of writing, some errors and stuff, for just a second, before I can see what's wrong, and then the computer proceeds to restart. Now, I could reboot it, but I have some really important files on there and I just can't do that. The computer always restarts before I'm able to transfer the files on a cd or to this computer. It's like it knows I'm trying to do something important and won't let me. It's extremely frustrating. Anybody know the reason for this and how I can fix it?
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You got the blue screen of death. Most likely one of your system files is corrupt. See if you can boot up in safe mode. Restart your computer and hold the f8 key. Then select the last time the computer was runniong properly. I forgot what it said, I am a bit in a hurry. If youre computer smart youll figure it out.
1. Turn on the computer and before it boots to windows hold down F8.
Choose safe mode. Also try Last Known good configuration.
2. If you tryed the first suggestion and you still can't get it to run you can try BARTS PE Builder. With barts pe builder you can create a custom boot cd that will boot your computer so that you can recover some files. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
3. If you can't figure out how to use the PE Builder in suggestion 2. to back up your files your only left with one other option.
This is the easist for some and the most difficult for others. You will have to take the hard disk drive out of your laptop and buy an adapter so that you can connect it on either the primary IDE or Secondary IDE channel of a desktop comptuter. Depending on the desktop computers configuration the laptop hard drive will need to be configured as a Master or a Slave. By enabling different jumper settings on the drive itself. This is the only other way to save your files and is the last resort if you can figure out no other way to get your files.
Choose safe mode. Also try Last Known good configuration.
2. If you tryed the first suggestion and you still can't get it to run you can try BARTS PE Builder. With barts pe builder you can create a custom boot cd that will boot your computer so that you can recover some files. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
3. If you can't figure out how to use the PE Builder in suggestion 2. to back up your files your only left with one other option.
This is the easist for some and the most difficult for others. You will have to take the hard disk drive out of your laptop and buy an adapter so that you can connect it on either the primary IDE or Secondary IDE channel of a desktop comptuter. Depending on the desktop computers configuration the laptop hard drive will need to be configured as a Master or a Slave. By enabling different jumper settings on the drive itself. This is the only other way to save your files and is the last resort if you can figure out no other way to get your files.
Thanks a lot guys, I'll rep you tomorrow. However, I got lucky today and was able to transfer the important files on a cd before the computer would restart. Therefore, I rebooted the computer to factory image, so it's going to work fine from now on. By the way, I did try the thing that Bank Robber suggested even before I posted my problem here, but it did not help at all.
^^ yeah like dude said,blue screen of death.
i remember one time bill gates was showing off windows 95 or 98 cant remember,before it came out.they were demonstration the new plug N play(wooo). anyways he plugged in a device and it said it found it. then all of a sudden he got the blue screen of death. i found it hilarious,when he is showing off his new product,the damn thing had to crash on him.
anyways back to the topic. your hard drive is definitely fine physically. And some files are corrupted. So what happens is,since they are corrupted,they can tell the hardware to do some fucked up shit. The hardware tries to do something(cuz the software told it to), but it gets stuck and cant do it(for example,store something in a memory location,but that memory location is already occupied). so the hardware doesnt know what the fuck to do,so it gives u that screen.
try to reinstall windows and it should do the trick. all your files will stay on the computer,so dont worry about that(unless u format of course,hehe)
i remember one time bill gates was showing off windows 95 or 98 cant remember,before it came out.they were demonstration the new plug N play(wooo). anyways he plugged in a device and it said it found it. then all of a sudden he got the blue screen of death. i found it hilarious,when he is showing off his new product,the damn thing had to crash on him.
anyways back to the topic. your hard drive is definitely fine physically. And some files are corrupted. So what happens is,since they are corrupted,they can tell the hardware to do some fucked up shit. The hardware tries to do something(cuz the software told it to), but it gets stuck and cant do it(for example,store something in a memory location,but that memory location is already occupied). so the hardware doesnt know what the fuck to do,so it gives u that screen.
try to reinstall windows and it should do the trick. all your files will stay on the computer,so dont worry about that(unless u format of course,hehe)
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