So i have windows 7 and when i turn my computer on it has a distorted picture and it's kinda frizzy where the motherboard screen comes on and then it has a blue screen with black on it, and when its on the windows pulsing screen it has multiple green lines coming down the screen.And it goes to starting windows and restarts and it keeps on doing it and not getting past. Anyone know why it is doing this?
PC Problem Help Please
- Thread starter Skoalm1nt
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There are a number of things that might be wrong. On Gloria's computer I found the file "REBOOT.EXE" sitting in the "Disabled Startup Items" folder on her "C" drive. If it had been in the "Startup" folder, she would have been getting much the same thing on rebooting. That doesn't explain the frizzy screen though.
If you have another HDD to play with, you could try installing some version of windows on the other HDD, and setting your currant drive up as a slave, or secondary drive. Once you had done that you could run an antivirus program from the fresh windows install to check your existing drive.
If you have another HDD to play with, you could try installing some version of windows on the other HDD, and setting your currant drive up as a slave, or secondary drive. Once you had done that you could run an antivirus program from the fresh windows install to check your existing drive.
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Well if you don't have anything on "C" that you are trying to salvage, you should format C before doing any reinstalls, so you clear off any viruses that might be there. If that doesn't help, there are only two things left that I can think of :
1) Do a "Low Level Format" which writes zeros to the entire drive, wiping everything on it, then start over with however you set things up. For "Low Level Formatting" it is best to use the program supplied by the manufacturer of your HDD.
2) If that doesn't do any help, you have some sort of hardware problem. Something being defective.
1) Do a "Low Level Format" which writes zeros to the entire drive, wiping everything on it, then start over with however you set things up. For "Low Level Formatting" it is best to use the program supplied by the manufacturer of your HDD.
2) If that doesn't do any help, you have some sort of hardware problem. Something being defective.
If you can plug the HDD into your working computer, it would be best to do that, then run the antivirus program on your working computer on this "Plugged in" drive. See if there is anything bad there and remove any bad things found. If that doesn't help, a conventional format done by your working computer on this plugged in drive is the next best choice.
For "Low Level Formatting" go to the website of the manufacturer of this problem HDD and search for and download their "Low Level Formatting Utility". Follow any instructions that come with it exactly, being very careful not to run the program on the HDD in your working computer.
One disadvantage of "Low Level Formatting", that makes it a last resort, is when you load Windows for the first time on an HDD, Windows puts a "Flag" in on the boottrack of that HDD and increments a hidden counter by 1. Each time thereafter that you load Windows, it checks for that "Flag", and if it is not there, it puts it there then increments that hidden counter by 1 again. When the counter reaches 5, (For Window XP), and I don't know what it is for Win 7, Microsoft cuts off your activation priviledges, because they think you are using 1 copy of Windows on several different machines.
Low level formatting, removes their "Flag" by writing zeros to the entire drive, so in doing it you reduce the number of times you can install your copy of Windows on drives where it has never been installed by 1. It does get rid of boot track viruses though.
For "Low Level Formatting" go to the website of the manufacturer of this problem HDD and search for and download their "Low Level Formatting Utility". Follow any instructions that come with it exactly, being very careful not to run the program on the HDD in your working computer.
One disadvantage of "Low Level Formatting", that makes it a last resort, is when you load Windows for the first time on an HDD, Windows puts a "Flag" in on the boottrack of that HDD and increments a hidden counter by 1. Each time thereafter that you load Windows, it checks for that "Flag", and if it is not there, it puts it there then increments that hidden counter by 1 again. When the counter reaches 5, (For Window XP), and I don't know what it is for Win 7, Microsoft cuts off your activation priviledges, because they think you are using 1 copy of Windows on several different machines.
Low level formatting, removes their "Flag" by writing zeros to the entire drive, so in doing it you reduce the number of times you can install your copy of Windows on drives where it has never been installed by 1. It does get rid of boot track viruses though.
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