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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 7:56pm Post subject: help! pc won't start |
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4-of-a-Kind
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My PC won't start up,it's stuck in a death cycle of rebooting, then going to the screen saying "your computer was not shut down properly last time, how do you want to start it"
with the options
-safe mode (3 types)
-settings of last successful startup
-start normally
NONE of these work. Help please! I really don't want to have to reformat.
If it helps, when I try to start it in safe mode, all the loading files come up until it gets stuck on WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\Mup.sys
Then it restarts again. |
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 8:08pm Post subject: |
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Full House
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| Open your nearest window. Take PC. Throw PC at open window. Problem solved. |
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 8:24pm Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
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| Did you try to repair your current version of windows? |
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 9:11pm Post subject: |
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Full House
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 9:16pm Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
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This happened to me once and I had to re-format.
It's probably the driver after mup.sys, not that file.
I installed windows on a partion, tracked down whatever driver mine was stalling on, it just started crashing on the driver before it.
Good luck |
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 9:18pm Post subject: |
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Full House
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| Is it bad I keep thinking of the mac commercial where the PC guy is sick and the mac is fine. |
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Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 9:24pm Post subject: |
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| bigred wrote: | | Is it bad I keep thinking of the mac commercial where the PC guy is sick and the mac is fine. | Only if you're thinking about having sex with the Mac guy (or the PC guy, but he's sick so that doesn't make sense. unless you're into some weird shit). |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 12:50am Post subject: Re: help! pc won't start |
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Flush
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| midas06 wrote: | | My PC won't start up, |
Obv this is a lie... Else how could you post this question? GG Sir, we at FTR would appreciate it if you stopped lying to the board. Thank you Sir.
-Chris |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 1:32am Post subject: Re: help! pc won't start |
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| Sykedupp wrote: | | midas06 wrote: | | My PC won't start up, |
Obv this is a lie... Else how could you post this question? GG Sir, we at FTR would appreciate it if you stopped lying to the board. Thank you Sir.
-Chris |
Shit you beat me to this one. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 4:34am Post subject: |
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Got a shitty laptop at home. I tried system restoring it but it didn't work  |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 5:36am Post subject: |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 5:37am Post subject: |
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| i am having the exact same problem right now. when it started 2 days ago, i was atleast able to start it in safe mode and back up all the important stuff. Yesterday, though, i cant even start it in safe mode, and the XP cd gets stuck when trying to repair it. So i ripped out the hard drive and took an old one from work. It works fine now. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 6:15am Post subject: |
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Do you have a windows bootable CD? --- Boot off the CD -- run a chkdsk /p if you get errors run a chkdsk /r
My other computer was having a similar issue yesterday. It was a dell. This is what the tech support had me do. It takes awhile. But it booted right up afterwards. If it doesn't work your hard disk may be toast. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 6:47am Post subject: |
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| Hard drive is pooched. Get a new one, reistall, put your old one in as well and keep trying to move everything over. The more you keep booting the worse it'll get. don't format! you may be able to save the info. It's all the boot sector thats crapping out. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 8:52am Post subject: |
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| my computer was blue screen of deathing me continuously when i tried to start it up maybe 6 months ago, was only 6 months old too. couldn't fix it so i reformatted. i have an inspiron 6000, all you have to do to reformat is push some buttons right after you turn it on, and it does an auto-reformat thing that takes like 10 minutes, and its good as new, i thought it was pretty awesome. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 12:59pm Post subject: |
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| I used to get these problems with my computer all the time. I don't know how to fix it without the formatting option. But in case you do recover it I found out a very solid preventitive measure so you never have to worry about these kind of issues again. It's actually relatively simple to tell you the truth. You can get this done at most computer shops too. I know you can at Future Shop. So say they are the store of your choice. First, go to Future shop. Then, buy a Mac. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 1:47pm Post subject: |
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Straight Flush
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your br just shrunk i guess.  |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 4:16pm Post subject: |
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| Jay67s wrote: | Do you have a windows bootable CD? --- Boot off the CD -- run a chkdsk /p if you get errors run a chkdsk /r
My other computer was having a similar issue yesterday. It was a dell. This is what the tech support had me do. It takes awhile. But it booted right up afterwards. If it doesn't work your hard disk may be toast. |
Could you PM me what Dell told you to do?
I tried to repair it using a couple of guides of the net but it didn't work ljfiowaentlsijfaoivcjx.
I don't want to reformat because I want to get the data off the harddrive. So I guess my only other option is to buy another cheap hard drive and format that and transfer the data over. Or something. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 4:17pm Post subject: |
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| Miffed22001 wrote: | | your br just shrunk i guess. |
Yeah I'm about to spend 2x what your br is. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 5:03pm Post subject: |
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Straight Flush
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| midas06 wrote: | | Miffed22001 wrote: | | your br just shrunk i guess. |
Yeah I'm about to spend 2x what your br is. | orly?
8k?
thats a lot on a hardrive |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 5:24pm Post subject: |
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| midas06 wrote: | | I don't want to reformat because I want to get the data off the harddrive. So I guess my only other option is to buy another cheap hard drive and format that and transfer the data over. Or something. | Make sure you partition this new drive (if it's over 20GB). You really only need 20 for the OS and programs. Then you can store your data on the partition. Reformatting becomes a small pain in the ass instead of a big one. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006, 6:42pm Post subject: |
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