Posted: 9/4/2007 10:14 PM
Post subject: i've been having some extreme PC problems lately
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Speed_Man
Joined: 11/1/2006
Posts: 95
the sunday that just passed my pc restarted itself when i was starting a program up, i had MSN on aswell then when it restarted itself it didnt start back up, it kept restarting at the windows logo screen i had to use the recovery disk to repair my PC, why did this happen?
Posted: 9/4/2007 10:20 PM
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moozooh
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I'm 99% sure it happened because one of the system files got corrupted during the sudden restart. Why did the restart happen is open for debate.
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Posted: 9/4/2007 11:27 PM
Post subject: Re: i've been having some extreme PC problems lately
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OmnipotentEntity
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Speed Man wrote:
i had to use the recovery disk to repair my PC, why did this happen?
This happened because you don't know how to properly fix a Windows PC. You should have taken it somewhere or you should make friends with nerds and geeks. As for why it broke, I couldn't tell you, I don't have enough information. If you need help in the future with this, turn off automatic restart on system failure, and find a place to upload the contents of your C:\Windows\Minidump directory so people in the know can repair your computer.
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Posted: 9/4/2007 11:50 PM
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TNSe
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Joined: 10/9/2004
Posts: 453
Location: Norway
This weekend microsoft pushed out a security fix which also wanted to reboot my computer. If you wait 2 days (tell windows NO), it will force you to reboot... Although this may be a reason I doubt it is your reason.
Posted: 9/5/2007 4:00 PM
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Titus_Kwok
Joined: 4/30/2006
Posts: 480
Location: the secret cow level
You can't predict what Windows is going to do. I had a machine run 98 for well over two years without a hiccup, then one day I booted it up and my win.ini and system.ini files had mysteriously gone missing. Thank god I was able to drop my HD into another machine and copy my stuff before wiping the drive.