datman
19th June 2011, 13:29
Yesterday the computer was in a 2nd pass and I wanted to check a setting in TMT 3 and clicked to open it and the computer froze. I had to force a shut down and windows would not reboot, the boot manager was missing. My 1st thought the HDD was bad. I unplugged it and tried to install a backup of my C drive on a empty 80g partition. The computer will not operate in the pre windows emergency recovery mode off the boot disk. It operates very slow and gets to a point where the computer is looking for the backup and after waiting hours I canceled
I was able to install a fresh copy of vista, but it installed very slow. I installed the acronis backup software and was able to then install my saved C drive backup. It also was installed very slowly. When windows booted it appeared to be fine even had windows boot audio. Then windows was preparing the desktop and the screen to a blue windows screen, the mouse is present and that’s as far as it gets. I use the mouse to open task manager and reboot and it gets back to the same point.
Ok, my thinking is the processor got stressed and crapped out. Or the memory is bad. I’m hoping to get an educated guess by posting this here before I talk to the tech support.
I was able to install a fresh copy of vista, but it installed very slow. I installed the acronis backup software and was able to then install my saved C drive backup. It also was installed very slowly. When windows booted it appeared to be fine even had windows boot audio. Then windows was preparing the desktop and the screen to a blue windows screen, the mouse is present and that’s as far as it gets. I use the mouse to open task manager and reboot and it gets back to the same point.
Ok, my thinking is the processor got stressed and crapped out. Or the memory is bad. I’m hoping to get an educated guess by posting this here before I talk to the tech support.