Greetings, I am having some computer issues perhaps some of you would kindly help me solve my problem. About one week ago i turned on my computer and received a cpu fan speed warning, i looked in the case and it wasn't spinning at all. so i took it to my garage and blew a ton of dust out of it. Then everything seemed to work normally. until about 2 days ago my PC was running fine for a few hours then it started lagging hard, it was playing music and seemed to skip and play half a second of music then pause and another half a second, etc. i couldn't shutdown from within windows, so i turned it off with the front power button. now i can turn it on and it will go through POST and i am able to log onto windows and get to the desktop but right when i log on i get the hour glass and nothing will load it stays like that for ever. I can move the mouse and click on the start menu but other then that nothing will launch. And it wont go into safe mode at all. every time i try to boot to safe mode it shows all that scrolling white text garbage but then just resets and goes right back to 'how do you want to start windows : normally, safe mode/with CMD/with networking, last know good config, etc.' but no matter what i choose it just goes back to that screen. I am able to access the bios and they show that the CPU fan is running fine: 4000+ rpm and idleing at 33 degrees celcius. and the 'core temp' is 29 degrees celcius and the chipset fan is spinning fine also. I have tested my memoryswapping 1 stick at a time and that doesnt fix the problem. also i tested the with bootable memory diagnotics no problems with that. i have tested my power supply connector with a multimeter all the voltages seem to be correct at around 12, 5, or 3 or -12, -5, -3 volts. the only thing is on the ATX main motherboard power connector i get a reading of about -4.5volts of pin 20 (white wire) I think its supposed to be -5 volts right? but also it says pin 20 might not be used so i don't know. I am thinking maybe my motherboard or cpu has a problem oh i also tried swapping my IDE cables on my harddrive so i dont think its a HD problem. over all i think i narrowed it to my MoBo, CPU or maybe my Powersupply. also maybe its just a virus? lol what do u think? i dont wanna reformat windows and lose a lot of important files. can any of u help me out here i would really appriciate it. really! Thanks in advance! Oh yeah. It a custom built: AMD athlon 3500+ with a replaced (upgraded) cooling fan 1 gig crucial ddr memory 430 watt thearmaltake powersupply Asus MoBo with nforce 4 and AMD socket 939 CPU slot 80 GB maxtor IDE Harddrive
hello, little help plz? sounds like your wndows install is corrupt. If presume your OS is windows XP? judging from your specs. you can repair Windows XP quite easily using windows installation disc.Also I would benchmark that hardrive of yours that could also be the problem, also Maxtor drives arn't the best. I would recommend brands such as: Western Digital, Seagate Baracuda.
If your computer boots up long enough for you to navigate around a little bit and then randomly restarts, often time its doing that because there is a critical system failure and that's what it was instructed to do. What you can do though, is change that so that instead of restarting it will pull up a blue screen with error information. It will give you a STOP error number which you can look up online. Sometimes it tells you where the problem is, sometimes it gives you a generic message that doesn't tell you anything. In any case its probably worth looking into. If you are running windows XP you have to go into the system properties. You can get there by right clicking My Computer and going to properties, or in the control panel > Performance and Maintenance > System. When you have the System properties open, select the "Advanced" tab. Then under Startup and Recovery select "Settings". There should be a check box under "System Failure" that says "Automatically Restart". Simply uncheck that and press OK twice. Now ready your pen and wait for the magic to happen. If you have Vista or Windows 7 you'll have to look up how to get to that setting, I'm sure they still have it.
