PC Not Booting?

[AxJaWz]

Hey. V1Viper is having trouble booting his computer. I am at his house atm and trying to figure it out. The PC will boot but when the vista logo appears it will crash. We thought it was the video card so we removed it but only got as far as the desktop. About 2-3 seconds after the desktop loads it will crash and the only way to shut down the PC is to hold down the power button.

We can enter in safe mode but thats about it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

[ruthless_villain]

Re install windows?

 

[AxJaWz]

He didnt make any OS backup disks when he bought the acer PC

 

[sheroo]

Have you done a virus scan? Or do you think its hardware related?

 

[AxJaWz]

well he did a virus scan last night and it was all clear. He tried booting it up tonight and the problem struck. When he gets in windows, it will crash within a few minutes.

 

[S_I_N]

pop into the bios and look at the pc health status. Anything look abnormal there???? voltages and what not if all looks ok there then I'd have to agree somehow it got corrupted and a re-install should fix it.

 

[AxJaWz]

Yeah we made progress but not done yet :S. Im back home now im sure he will give us an update.

 

[cnf]

is his processor overclocked if so try stock clocks

 

[BaMb1N0]

sounds to me like a driver problem. you might want to have a look into the windows logs in safe mode and have a look at previous errors. it might give you a hint what to look for.

but usually this is the point where i take such a harddrive out, plug it to another computer using an usb sata-adapter and backup the contained data. afterwards i reinstall windows, proper drivers and applications. finally i'll restore the data backed up earlier.

 

[Diablo]

I've seen something like this with unstable graphics clocks. As you can boot into safe mode, that indicates that it's a driver problem. What graphics chip is it? Is any overclocking software running in the background (e.g. afterburner) which might be pushing the clocks much higher than they can support. As it is crashing immediately it also might be a memory/cpu problem as that often leads to hangs instead of BSODs.

Check through safe mode and check what is starting up.