My build is in my sig. It is about 5 years old now and has been fairly reliable until the last couple of days. One time when I started it up it would only get to showing the background and the mouse (which moved) but no icons, no task bar, nothing besides the background and mouse.
After a few restarts it only got to the windows welcome screen, the screen before the background/mouse.
Now, it won't even get to the windows welcome screen. Is a component dying? I've been trying to have this computer hold out until I graduate from college (a few more qtrs) so that I can build another one at that time. So salvaging this computer would be ideal. Plus, I have about 10GBs of music on there that I don't want to lose.
I did nothing unusual on the computer before it started acting up. It is about as "out of the blue" as it gets. I went on all the same trusted sites I've been on for years so I have no clue what is causing this. I would simply reformat but then I would lose all my music which I'd like to avoid.
EDIT - I have windows XP on this computer
After a few restarts it only got to the windows welcome screen, the screen before the background/mouse.
Now, it won't even get to the windows welcome screen. Is a component dying? I've been trying to have this computer hold out until I graduate from college (a few more qtrs) so that I can build another one at that time. So salvaging this computer would be ideal. Plus, I have about 10GBs of music on there that I don't want to lose.
I did nothing unusual on the computer before it started acting up. It is about as "out of the blue" as it gets. I went on all the same trusted sites I've been on for years so I have no clue what is causing this. I would simply reformat but then I would lose all my music which I'd like to avoid.
EDIT - I have windows XP on this computer
