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PC not booting
elisamoose
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Our compaq presario desktop will not boot.It is just in a loop.Have tried system restore,start up repair a d changed boot order to boot from recovery cd.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Have tried all of those options but just goes in a loop0
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are you prepared to wipe it, if so, try pressing f12 at boot with the recovery disc in.
if you need any data from it, don't use the recovery disc, post more info of os, what comes on screen, how it started!!
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Did you choose Disable automatic restart on system failure from the Advanced Boot Options?0
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elisamoose wrote: »Our compaq presario desktop will not boot.It is just in a loop.Have tried system restore,start up repair a d changed boot order to boot from recovery cd.
Any ideas?
Before you do something drastic like formatting or reinstalling and loosing every thing, what model number is it and what operating system have you got on it, this info is required before I can even make a guess0 -
Thanks it is a sr5129 quite old now running vista and has had ram added some years ago.
It was working fine then froze and would not restart.found recovery disks and changed boot order but still no joy.does not really sound as if it is trying IYSWIM.
Off to work now bit will try it later0 -
Giving up ! Thanks for suggestions0
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elisamoose wrote: »Giving up ! Thanks for suggestions
Suggestions?? You didn't even answer the questions!
No chance to help someone if they don't give prompt feedback.0 -
10 replies to the thread with people offering advice... which is pretty impressive seeing as nobody even tried to find out what was happening.elisamoose wrote: »Our compaq presario desktop will not boot.It is just in a loop.Have tried system restore,start up repair a d changed boot order to boot from recovery cd.
Any ideas?
what loop?
what's actually happening?
did you actually put a recovery CD in?
can you give any information that's actually useful?
no offence to the OP, but before anybody can help you we'd need to know what's actually happening, but nobody asked...... just offered suggestions.0 -
they were asked in post 4!!
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is that a different post 4 to the one on this thread?
The only thing that was asked on post 4 waswhat comes on screen
which is different to asking what's actually happening0
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