Help !!! my computer keeps crashing and wont boot for ages

crystal_clear · 14 September 2006 at 1:46PM

Help!!!!!! Please

I know this is awkward to diagnose without seeing. But any help in trying to resolve this would be great.

Whats happening.

I am on my computer working away doing whatever, looking on this site , checking emails, playing cards, Nothing in particular then all of a sudden the computer blips off the monitor shows starting to reload/reboot then i get a notice on screen saying SIGNAL INPUT FAILURE and then the base powers off.
If this happens i try to power up again after a few minutes and it wont allow the screen on i get above message.

when i finally get it all booting up again sometimes in bios boot / main screen before windows starts i get this big blue block of colour from top to bottom of screen about a 1/3 the way across (no writing) then it boots up and goes into disk check. Sometimes gets to windows ok from there but most often the computer just boots up and down. So i leave it off an hour or two and then come back to it it boots up and disk checks again then into windows and i am ok until the next time.

If this makes any sense to anyone or if i can give further input just ask as this is annoying me to death.

My thoughts maybe it getting to hot or i have a corrupt file somewhere that is causing these blips i am getting. but i need some input on how to check for these. I am running Win xp home 2002 with sp 2 fully updated on regular basis the computer is a time build AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ 2.08 GHz, 704 MB of Ram if that helps

regards
Crystal

sheedatali · 14 September 2006 at 3:25PM

Sounds like a hardware problem to me, may be you want to run a memory test (memtest86) or do a hard drive full scan (ScanDisk)

crystal_clear · 14 September 2006 at 4:00PM

I thank you for your reply but i am no technical wizard and not sure how i would run a memtest86 and win xp doesnt have scandisk option in sys tools so not sure how i access that either.
I am however not bad at following if you could point me as to what to do

Cheers
Crystal

albertross_2 · 14 September 2006 at 4:21PM

start, run, chkdsk c: /F /R then reboot to do a "scandisk"

there are full instructions on testing your memory here:

http://www.memtest86.com/

just create either a bootable floppy using the software, or a bootable CD from the iso, then reboot the PC and run the test.

Shokami · 16 September 2006 at 1:40PM

I had one of these, from the same company, same specs, exactly the same problem, it was a nightmare! Removed one of the 2 hard drives and now run computer on one. Worked a treat, no problems since. It appears that having 2big HDDs is possibly the cause. I'm no techie, and we hit on this solution purely by accident. We were going to scrap it, so as we wanted another HDD in another computer we took one out of the 'faulty' one. Son wanted 'faulty ' one to play games, and it works perfectly, no shut downs at all since (8 months ago) Don't know if this will help you, but might be worth a try.
Shoki

crystal_clear · 17 September 2006 at 6:46PM

Shokami

Thanks for that. Unfortunately I only have one 80 gig hard drive installed although i do have a caddy and a new 250gb hard drive to go on via usb but still not put on yet.

Regards
crystal

Help !!! my computer keeps crashing and wont boot for ages

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