Bingo
05-10-2008, 05:59 PM
Crap. My PC seems to have serious, serious issues.
So now instead of looking for a Disk Imaging Program in case my rig crashes, I'm now looking for how to fix my rig crashing. :(
The irritating problem that had me worried things were going to die was that sometimes when I would turn my PC off or go to sleep mode, it would shut down and then rapidly power on-off every second or so. As if you were flicking a light switch on and off rapidly. If I turned off the power supply switch on the back it would shut down.
Then sometimes when I would turn it on it would act like it was booting up just fine but nothing would ever come on the monitor (It wouldn't even wake up from sleep mode) and I noticed the hard drive activity light was steady on. Usually I could just turn it off and back on and it was fine. One day last week it kept on doing this no matter how often I turned it off and back on. Then Friday it was fine again.
Now last night I turned it on just fine. I went to copy some files off a CF card and everything froze. Then I got was I assume is the XP version of the Blue Screen of Death. Something about a stop error and a bunch of stuff that basically said 'OMG we're gonna die'.
Windows automatically attempted a restart.
That time and everytime after here's what happens:
I get the ASUS Splash screen that has always come up immediatly upon powering on.
After about 5-10 seconds I get a big screen apologizing to me very nicely but saying Windows didn't start up right. Gives me the 3 safe mode options, a last known good option and a normal option.
Whichever option I choose, there is a pause and then the Black with color Windows XP startup screen as per normal.
Then another pause and the whole process starts over again back at the ASUS splash screen. Right before that it does appear as if the monitor has that brief second of sleep mode just like when you do a soft restart right out of windows (I hope you know what I'm meaning here).
So, basically, I'm thinking I'm hosed. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks -
Bingo
So now instead of looking for a Disk Imaging Program in case my rig crashes, I'm now looking for how to fix my rig crashing. :(
The irritating problem that had me worried things were going to die was that sometimes when I would turn my PC off or go to sleep mode, it would shut down and then rapidly power on-off every second or so. As if you were flicking a light switch on and off rapidly. If I turned off the power supply switch on the back it would shut down.
Then sometimes when I would turn it on it would act like it was booting up just fine but nothing would ever come on the monitor (It wouldn't even wake up from sleep mode) and I noticed the hard drive activity light was steady on. Usually I could just turn it off and back on and it was fine. One day last week it kept on doing this no matter how often I turned it off and back on. Then Friday it was fine again.
Now last night I turned it on just fine. I went to copy some files off a CF card and everything froze. Then I got was I assume is the XP version of the Blue Screen of Death. Something about a stop error and a bunch of stuff that basically said 'OMG we're gonna die'.
Windows automatically attempted a restart.
That time and everytime after here's what happens:
I get the ASUS Splash screen that has always come up immediatly upon powering on.
After about 5-10 seconds I get a big screen apologizing to me very nicely but saying Windows didn't start up right. Gives me the 3 safe mode options, a last known good option and a normal option.
Whichever option I choose, there is a pause and then the Black with color Windows XP startup screen as per normal.
Then another pause and the whole process starts over again back at the ASUS splash screen. Right before that it does appear as if the monitor has that brief second of sleep mode just like when you do a soft restart right out of windows (I hope you know what I'm meaning here).
So, basically, I'm thinking I'm hosed. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks -
Bingo