Name: Anonymous 2005-11-17 16:01
In the past 3 weeks I've had my computer give up on me 3 times. The first time it wouldn't go past the loading screen, and after a restore of my system partition, it wouldn't even load in safe mode, saying that my system file was missing or corrupt. Fresh install of Professional XP (I was using Home before), and it works fine again for a couple weeks.
Three days ago, it's doing the same thing. I turn it on, and it won't go past the loading screen, the bar just stops moving. I'm able to get onto it in safe mode, but not normally. I turn it off, and leave it alone for the night, and in the morning, it starts up just fine.
Now, last night, while I was listening to music on here (logged in normally), the music started that high-pitched really fast skipping (only way I can describe it, really), and nothing would respond. The sound gets quieter, eventually just stopping. So I cut the power, start it up again, and I can only get to safe mode again.
The dying motherboard was a suggestion given to me buy a friend, but I don't know if that's the cause or not. Any suggestions?
Also, this is a laptop, and one of the things I notice whenever this happens is that the memory stick indicator lights up.
Three days ago, it's doing the same thing. I turn it on, and it won't go past the loading screen, the bar just stops moving. I'm able to get onto it in safe mode, but not normally. I turn it off, and leave it alone for the night, and in the morning, it starts up just fine.
Now, last night, while I was listening to music on here (logged in normally), the music started that high-pitched really fast skipping (only way I can describe it, really), and nothing would respond. The sound gets quieter, eventually just stopping. So I cut the power, start it up again, and I can only get to safe mode again.
The dying motherboard was a suggestion given to me buy a friend, but I don't know if that's the cause or not. Any suggestions?
Also, this is a laptop, and one of the things I notice whenever this happens is that the memory stick indicator lights up.