Ok. I got a rlly big prob with my pc. It's a gateway desktop which is like about wat 5 going on 6 years old.
So basically like my pc is rlly, or was rlly slow. So one day I was working on this word document when it starts to get really slow. A few minutes later after like trying to continue typing, a message came up saying windows was shutting down the pc to protect it or something and then it said it is now deleting all physical memory.
So it shut down and i re-booted it, I ran like 10 virus scans and about 20 spyware scans and i found a few adwares but thts it. No viruses.
So I send the document to my friend as fast as I could. So then I left my pc for about a day, and shut it off so my new dog would go to sleep.
So then I turned it back on 1 day, and i left it for a while and i noticed it kept rebooting by itself. Then I looked to see wtf was happening and i saw that like a message came up saying if ur pc keeps rebooting follow these steps, if ur pc did this for the first time, follow these steps etc etc etc. Then under it it said like start in safe mode, safe mode control or something, start windows, etc. There were about 4 or 5 choices. So I chose each and every one of them. Every time it either just stopped at a sirtain point (I never got into windows) or it just began loading windows and then shut down and restarted.
basically, if u were to turn it on and leave it right now, it would just keep starting up, and rebooting constantly in a cycle.
Other odd thing is like whenever it starts loading or wen its about halfway into the loading process like the hardrive murmurs. Like it sounds like its gonna shut down, but it doesnt. Then, of course, a few seconds later, it does shut down.
I've tried everything. I've tried blowing out all the dust of it. I've tried looking inside. I've pressed F10 and F2 or w/e... Nothing.
All I did before my pc crashed was go on aim, work on my word doc, and thts it.
So my questions are...
1) What happened? Did I get hacked? Did I possibly get a virus? Did my hardrive just ware out? What?
2) How do I fix it, without taking it in to get sirviced?
3) If I have to sirvice it, would it be easier to buy a new pc or to just sirvice it?
So basically like my pc is rlly, or was rlly slow. So one day I was working on this word document when it starts to get really slow. A few minutes later after like trying to continue typing, a message came up saying windows was shutting down the pc to protect it or something and then it said it is now deleting all physical memory.
So it shut down and i re-booted it, I ran like 10 virus scans and about 20 spyware scans and i found a few adwares but thts it. No viruses.
So I send the document to my friend as fast as I could. So then I left my pc for about a day, and shut it off so my new dog would go to sleep.
So then I turned it back on 1 day, and i left it for a while and i noticed it kept rebooting by itself. Then I looked to see wtf was happening and i saw that like a message came up saying if ur pc keeps rebooting follow these steps, if ur pc did this for the first time, follow these steps etc etc etc. Then under it it said like start in safe mode, safe mode control or something, start windows, etc. There were about 4 or 5 choices. So I chose each and every one of them. Every time it either just stopped at a sirtain point (I never got into windows) or it just began loading windows and then shut down and restarted.
basically, if u were to turn it on and leave it right now, it would just keep starting up, and rebooting constantly in a cycle.
Other odd thing is like whenever it starts loading or wen its about halfway into the loading process like the hardrive murmurs. Like it sounds like its gonna shut down, but it doesnt. Then, of course, a few seconds later, it does shut down.
I've tried everything. I've tried blowing out all the dust of it. I've tried looking inside. I've pressed F10 and F2 or w/e... Nothing.
All I did before my pc crashed was go on aim, work on my word doc, and thts it.
So my questions are...
1) What happened? Did I get hacked? Did I possibly get a virus? Did my hardrive just ware out? What?
2) How do I fix it, without taking it in to get sirviced?
3) If I have to sirvice it, would it be easier to buy a new pc or to just sirvice it?