Computer won't boot up -help please

baywood_2

would it be a problem to exit it then start again tomorrow as don't want to leave unsupervised overnight and fast approaching bed time but don't want to ruin anything, still at 1%

codheadling

usually no more than an hour,but obviously you can only look at a screen for so long without going bonkers

codheadling

yes,type exit and hit the enter key

baywood_2

so it would be ok to type exit, does this mean that hdd is kn****ed

baywood_2

sorry you posted while i was typing, will do that now and start again tomorrow

baywood_2

unable to type anything keyboard not responding, so have just switched electric off, will try again tomorrow but just about had enough of it!!!!

codheadling

it turns out that chkdsk /r can take an age to complete http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080601192822AAsBAzZ

baywood_2

something very wrong now i think, tried again this morning got to chkdsk /r and it zipped along to 17% went away and left it, when i returned there was a blue screen saying that a problem had been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage etc then DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL then a load of stuff about new hardware and disk space then it says technical information is
STOP:0x00000D1,(0x000012B,0x00000005,0x0000000,0xF76c895c)
atapi.sys-address F76c89c base at F76c30000 date stamp 3b7d83e5

baywood_2

Tried again and cant get to chkdsk option now just blue screen again with not quite the same message and different numbers in tech info

codheadling

check that the ide cable is firmly inserted in the hard drive,it could be loose
remove the memory stick (ram) and reseat it,if you have more than one stick of memory try booting to the recovery console with them in one at a time as a faulty module could be causing the bluescreening