OK.... I need you boys help!!!!

I got my new system.. its been working like a dream, a proper gaming behemoth!!!!

Having got my 22" monitor on friday, I decided that now was the time to give it an overclock and see how it would do.

I used Ntune (I know I know!) and it hung a couple of times during its mucking about with clock speeds, etc.

I went out to sort something out in the garden, came back in and the screen had gone black during another hang.

I reset the computer and on boot up windows would start up with the same black screen.

I reset again and tried to boot up in safe mode. But safe mode hung on the MUS.sys.

I then tried restoring my default settings in the bios, which didn't work, or booting up with the last known good configuration, but still to no avail.

I put the window xp recovery disk in to try to run windows recovery tool, but it too hung when "searching for previous versions of windows..."

So now i'm stumped!? What can I do to fix this??? Its driving me mad.... curse Nvidia and its inferior toolset !!!

Please help!!!

why are you so sure it is software and not hardware?

oh and if you have access to another comp like you obviously do, try downloading a linux live disc like ubuntu or knoppix and using their partition managers to wipe the harddrive as if in prep for a new install then just re-install windows.

Do you seriously think it might be a hardware issue.... I can't see that Ntune would break the computer, surely????/

I'm not massively confident when it comes to this sort of thing, so would i justr boot the computer from the disk, wipe the hardrive, and then use the windows disk to reinstall???

ye, set it too boot from the Cd-rom with the live disk in it.

i was just thinking, you might have cooked something that is all. if you can use the live CD then that should rule out hardware.

cool i'll give it a go.

I don't think i have cooked anything, as windows will load, it just goes black on boot up. I'm pretty sure its just software..... bloody windows breaks the moment you try anything out of the ordinary!

Cheers for your help, where can i get live from? )

you can try ubunto from www.ubuntu.com, quite a big download of course.

after that you can use the partition manager that comes with it, unmount the volumes and then delete. tbh, i am pretty new to linux but have just wiped my xp install off my laptop using the same method.

Brill, i'll try it and see how it goes. Thanks

Of course it's windows fault!

Its much easier to blame windows then take the responsibility myself.

I got some feedback from a few other people, and they seem to think that its a harddrive issue more than a hardware.

Just gonna format windows and reinstall!

Cheers

Please post your results of the re-install, I'm curious.

Hi, I finally found time to fix the pc.

It turns out that the recovery disk I had was corrupted, I used a different one and it worked first time.

Had to remformat tho ( oh well

Thanks for all your help.