Where to begin …
About 6 weeks ago my PC occasionally hung on starting; power down reboot worked. Then it occasionally hung while using windows apps (anything .. no pattern there). Then the windows loading hanging increased until by last week it would take up to 20 power downs and reboots before it would load .. then it might be fine for several hours then it would randomly hang .. maybe in the middle of browsing/word editing/screen saver .. anything. I did Chkdsk and nothing. I used the DOS crucial ram checker .. nothing. At this stage, when windows did load, everything worked flawlessly UNTIL the freezeup, i.e.all drives accessible NIS2012 working etc. Nothing odd in startup items either.
Decided that the windows installation was bust so reinstall (after carefully putting all my data files on to ANOTHER internal HDD). Reformatted partition and clean install. Booted up fine first time but no internet (on my laptop). Now what .. every time I boot it wants to run ChkDsk. Sometimes I let it and no errors found … and then it hangs ; sometimes I stop it and it hangs or maybe starts the windows splash screen then hangs .. or it might just load to the logon screen. So rarely I can get into windows and guess what .. although I can see the other HDD and the folders, I cannot get to any of my files(which included, incidentally many of my driver setup files). So then I do a long test with Seatools DOS .. and no errors on either HDD. Tried safe mode … black screen fills with all the drivers being loaded (that’s normal I think) .. then hangs. The dskchk thing is always the same partition (same as the windows disc different partition MyDocs). As I write this I cannot get into windows at all. This is either something very very simple or unbelievably convoluted.
Can you please help me guys? Because of all the tests passed I cannot bring myself to swap in new drives, ram chips because I might be wasting my money.
MSI MS-7528 v1.0 mobo. Intel duo 3GHz, 2GB ram, SATA Hitachi 500GB HDD, (older) Seagate 120GB non-SATA HDD (use as a backup) .. Windows SP3 originally installed, and reinstalled …. Arghhh.
About 6 weeks ago my PC occasionally hung on starting; power down reboot worked. Then it occasionally hung while using windows apps (anything .. no pattern there). Then the windows loading hanging increased until by last week it would take up to 20 power downs and reboots before it would load .. then it might be fine for several hours then it would randomly hang .. maybe in the middle of browsing/word editing/screen saver .. anything. I did Chkdsk and nothing. I used the DOS crucial ram checker .. nothing. At this stage, when windows did load, everything worked flawlessly UNTIL the freezeup, i.e.all drives accessible NIS2012 working etc. Nothing odd in startup items either.
Decided that the windows installation was bust so reinstall (after carefully putting all my data files on to ANOTHER internal HDD). Reformatted partition and clean install. Booted up fine first time but no internet (on my laptop). Now what .. every time I boot it wants to run ChkDsk. Sometimes I let it and no errors found … and then it hangs ; sometimes I stop it and it hangs or maybe starts the windows splash screen then hangs .. or it might just load to the logon screen. So rarely I can get into windows and guess what .. although I can see the other HDD and the folders, I cannot get to any of my files(which included, incidentally many of my driver setup files). So then I do a long test with Seatools DOS .. and no errors on either HDD. Tried safe mode … black screen fills with all the drivers being loaded (that’s normal I think) .. then hangs. The dskchk thing is always the same partition (same as the windows disc different partition MyDocs). As I write this I cannot get into windows at all. This is either something very very simple or unbelievably convoluted.
Can you please help me guys? Because of all the tests passed I cannot bring myself to swap in new drives, ram chips because I might be wasting my money.
MSI MS-7528 v1.0 mobo. Intel duo 3GHz, 2GB ram, SATA Hitachi 500GB HDD, (older) Seagate 120GB non-SATA HDD (use as a backup) .. Windows SP3 originally installed, and reinstalled …. Arghhh.
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