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Computer will not boot

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:29 am
by compuryan

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:41 am
by hell_sent_me
inotice you have 1gb ram,.. i take it you are running xp/2000 as any win os before that dosent really support that much memory.
have you tried a fresh installation on windows...?

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:04 pm
by Wizman
If your system is even having problems logging in to Safe mode then there could be a problem somewhere in your OS install. If so then I would recommend a reinstall of the OS.
Another thing could be lack of power. What is the size of your power supply? Does it have enough juice to power everything? Check this link to see if you have enough there.
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/
One other thing you could try is Taking one of the sticks of ram out of the system. and seeing what happens, then try the other just to see if something is going on there..
Good luck
btw: this would have been better suited in hardware..


Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:47 pm
by noby
you could also test your memory, memtest-86 is not so bad
this would take out the possibility of a memory problem
noby

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:17 pm
by compuryan
hi,
thanks for your replies, I have been having this problem intermittently ever since i have had this PC. I have probably re-installed windows XP about 10 times, and no difference...
I have a 500watt psu (as it says in my sig.) so I don't think there is a problem there.
I will test the memory to determine if that could indeed be the problem.
thanks again for your replies!
-Ryan

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:31 pm
by noby
what's more, memtest-86 is free
If you reformat, look if the 3 operating systems support the format type you select ( i had to format in fat32 to be compatible)
hope to be able to help a bit
noby

Posted:
Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:47 pm
by compuryan
What 3 OS's? I only want to run XP pro (for now)
I have been formatting in NTFS
-Ryan

Posted:
Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:20 am
by brad
What do you have that's connected with Bluetooth? btkrnl.sys is part of Bluetooth's config.
brad

Posted:
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:22 am
by compuryan
I have the logitech dinovo media desktop kb and mouse on bluetooth.
I have had problems with them before.. has anyone else had these problems? I hope it gets fixed in xp sp2.
-Ryan

Posted:
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:59 am
by brad

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Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:01 pm
by compuryan

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Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:56 am
by Borogorn

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Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:15 am
by compuryan

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Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:50 pm
by tk4two1

Posted:
Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:26 pm
by compuryan