1Quik7 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 well it's not my computer first off, i've never had this problem. but this is the 2nd computer of my sister's, this one lasted 2 days...and now it's doing the same thing her first one did after about a month. it boots then locks up, or it will start to load Windows and just kick off and keep looping like that. it's too much of a coincidence the same thing has happened twice, she is downloading or doing something she shouldn't be. anyways, enough venting, i have a quick "Windows" based question. i have it booting off the XP cd and i formatted and all that stuff...it started to install Windows again...then it kept saying it couldn't copy "x" file...numerous times, and they are important files, a lot of them are .dll's. so i keep hitting 'retry', and no dice' so i say ignore to a couple of them and i get the blue screen. what the hell am i supposed to do with this thing if i can't even get Windows installed...ahhhh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Option A: http://www.krefeldercomputerclub.de/comp-hammer.jpg Option B: http://www.bennekecomputers.biz/images/keysthroughmonitor.jpg And finally Option 3, my favorite:(this is not me) http://www.gregorycomputing.com/hammer.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1QWKEVO Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 maybe the windows cd is corrupted?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 You should get a antivirus boot disk and scan the computer. If you have already formatted then you might have a virus in the master boot record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Problem 1 - format. Then, teach your sister about what is and is not safe to download. I've had to go through this with my sister, she kept downloading stupid games that were filled with spyware, and it would eventually lock up the computer completely. Problem 2 - the CD is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodRed Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Possibly a bad hard drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 My computer did this, Except not so often. I had 2 cd drives, a normal one and a burner. It turns out something in the burner one was malfunctioning and would cause the computer to reboot/freeze. I took the burner out and its been trouble free for months now. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgels Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Option B is hilarious.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 is this a burned CD? I have seen burned CD's do this.. just take the disk out then put it back in... you'll end up doing it a bunch of times though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Quik7 Posted April 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 no..it's the un-opened Windows disk that came with the computer. it keeps giving me the blue screen now, stating IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL and giving memory addresses. i hate computers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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