Hello, could some please tell me which steps to take next.
here is my problem:
Two days ago i was playing a game on my XP machine when i decided to minimize it. It took a while to get to the desktop after hanging on a black, unresponsive, screen for about 20 seconds whilst loading (i only have 512mb of RAM on 3.1 P4, so its quite slow). When it finally decided to do something my monitor only displayed about a quarter of my desktop, but it was at a much lower res and it was all in a much smaller amount of colours, almost like a comic picture. This has happened around 5 times in the last week and everytime it happens i just hold down the off button and reboot, then the computer works as normal...
...However, i was in this situation yesterday where i had to manually turn off the computer by holding downt he button, it all went off after the usual amount of time. When i tryed to turn it back on it would get past the HP boot screen, then to the screen where you can choose if you would like to boot xp or go to XP recovery (this screen usually comes up) and then it would hang on a black screen, completely unresponsive and not do anything. It wouldnt get as far as the XP screen.
after turning it off then back on numerous times, the same thing happened.
Not knowing terribly much about computers, this lead me to believe my hardrive was wiped, But i wasn't sure.
I then pressed F10 on the HP boot screen (to do system recovery) when suddenly i changed my mind after about 10 seconds and turn my computer off by the button. now what iw ant to know is, what was my orgional problem where it kept hanging on the black screen on booting, and also if i have to do a full system recovery anywya because i started it?
Soryr for the poor explanation- i tryed my best. Please get back to me a.s.a.p.
Cheers, joe.
Typo in the thread title. sorry, it is meant to say 'now' instead of 'not'.
here is my problem:
Two days ago i was playing a game on my XP machine when i decided to minimize it. It took a while to get to the desktop after hanging on a black, unresponsive, screen for about 20 seconds whilst loading (i only have 512mb of RAM on 3.1 P4, so its quite slow). When it finally decided to do something my monitor only displayed about a quarter of my desktop, but it was at a much lower res and it was all in a much smaller amount of colours, almost like a comic picture. This has happened around 5 times in the last week and everytime it happens i just hold down the off button and reboot, then the computer works as normal...
...However, i was in this situation yesterday where i had to manually turn off the computer by holding downt he button, it all went off after the usual amount of time. When i tryed to turn it back on it would get past the HP boot screen, then to the screen where you can choose if you would like to boot xp or go to XP recovery (this screen usually comes up) and then it would hang on a black screen, completely unresponsive and not do anything. It wouldnt get as far as the XP screen.
after turning it off then back on numerous times, the same thing happened.
Not knowing terribly much about computers, this lead me to believe my hardrive was wiped, But i wasn't sure.
I then pressed F10 on the HP boot screen (to do system recovery) when suddenly i changed my mind after about 10 seconds and turn my computer off by the button. now what iw ant to know is, what was my orgional problem where it kept hanging on the black screen on booting, and also if i have to do a full system recovery anywya because i started it?
Soryr for the poor explanation- i tryed my best. Please get back to me a.s.a.p.
Cheers, joe.
Typo in the thread title. sorry, it is meant to say 'now' instead of 'not'.
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and then they also recommended me to buy norton anti-virus, vrs 2006, and so i did and till this day i never have any more problems