My PC Crashed

Sha August 7, 2007 17

Well I’m feeling quite helpless now, as my PC crashed.

I can’t do my work or revise.

Such dependance on computers we are these days ah.

Anyway I’m blogging from the school library and the post you’re seeing are made in advance before the crash.

I suspect it’s AGP graphic card.

Anyone got a spare?

Anyway if I’m not blogging for the day, that means I’ve run out of advanced post


17 Comments »

  1. Fredrick August 7, 2007 at 12:13 pm - Reply

    Hi, when your pc crash, it do “sound” you out and indicate to you what went wrong.

    when you first start up your pc, it normally give off a beep sound and one beep sound normally indicate the pc is ok. and for some motherboard, different beep meant different meaning. like my motherboard, 3 long beep mean there is some thing wrong with my display card.

    so listen out for the type and number of beeps that the pc have produced and check with google or your motherboard manual. At least you will know which parts need you attention and aviod a wild goose chase.

    hope that help!
    Cheers
    Fredrick

    • Uncle Sha August 7, 2007 at 1:33 pm - Reply

      going into boot its fine

      the xp logo screen can even be seen

      then blue screen … unmountable_boo_device, hardware failure, etc

      on last check my HDD are fine, mobo ok, but my gfx has been giving me problems

      so its most likely my gfx

      gonna try a friends geforce to confirm it

      thanks for the tip … i didn’t know about the beeps

  2. katak August 7, 2007 at 1:42 pm - Reply

    Have you tried the fixmbr command from the console ? Maybe its not the hardware problem but it could be software portion ?

    If you boot into the Recovery Console using a Windows XP CD, and if you can go to the C: drive and change into the System Volume Information directory, and if you had the System Restore service running, the following may bring the computer back to life (it’s a bit sludgy, but if it works should be the least hassle):

    Go into the “System Volume Information” directory on the C: drive. Then, change into a directory named _restore{}; of course run “dir” first to see the exact name of this directory. In there, you’ll see a bunch of directories named “rpNNN” where NNN is a number; go into the directory with the highest number.

    Then, change into the directory named “snapshot”. In there, you’ll find a number of files, and we’ll copy some registry files back into %systemroot%\system32\config by running the following commands:

    copy _registry_machine_sam %systemroot%\system32\config\sam
    copy _registry_machine_security %systemroot%\system32\config\security
    copy _registry_machine_software %systemroot%\system32\config\software
    copy _registry_machine_system %systemroot%\system32\config\system

    If you do not find these files, or if the “snapshot” directory does not exist at all, go to the “rpNNN” directory with the next lower number and see if you have any luck there. You may want to check the date on the files before you copy them, just to make sure we’re not restoring files from a very old restore point. It may be a good precaution to first rename the files to be overwritten to something else (sam.bak, etc.), so you can change all this back afterwards if you want to.

    When everything is done, exit the recovery console which should trigger a reboot. With any luck, Windows will now start.

    • Uncle Sha August 8, 2007 at 2:14 am - Reply

      wow thanks for the info

      infact your’re partly correct!

      due to my gfx hardware error, the software cockup too .. i dunno how, but it did

      so i bootup a spare win xp on, put it on master and the cockup hdd on slave

      then i put in a new agp gfx

      bootup ok now … i chkhd the slave hdd and it fixed the error

      so now i’m a happy pup … making backups of all my impt data now

      really scared me that i lost all my precious data in my hdd

  3. Faddy August 8, 2007 at 11:40 am - Reply

    :( my com also crashed and I so AGREE i feel so helpless hahaha.

    • Uncle Sha August 8, 2007 at 2:13 pm - Reply

      kesian you

    • katak August 8, 2007 at 3:06 pm - Reply

      What sort of crash plak you having ni ?

      • Uncle Sha August 8, 2007 at 11:45 pm - Reply

        dot come crash agaknyer?

  4. malique August 9, 2007 at 12:04 am - Reply

    crash kebabom!

    • Uncle Sha August 10, 2007 at 10:53 am - Reply

      boombastic

    • yanni August 11, 2007 at 8:26 pm - Reply

      malique ni apa lah… kasi lah tips or favour ke or cheer him up.. ni kasi orang bingit or maybe steam kering… ada crash kebabom… hahahah!!! pssttt i nak join u bingit kan shah lagi… meh kita plan…

  5. Nigerian Scam Baiter August 9, 2007 at 10:11 am - Reply

    Hmm, if its a hardware error, not sure what you can do, but if its that stupid windows operating system, you could boot off a live cd like knoppix.

    • Uncle Sha August 10, 2007 at 10:54 am - Reply

      its both in-fact …. crappy XP

  6. yanni August 11, 2007 at 8:28 pm - Reply

    i saw faddy entry before yang pc dia- hidayat is fixing it. ask him for help and pay him lah kalau dia charge… or get a new pc or maybe sembahyang hajat supaya besoknya dapat macbook pro. :) oh ok dont meant to sakit kan hati shah, but … i really dunno how to help you lah…. is it ok now???

    • Uncle Sha August 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm - Reply

      haha tak yah baca yasin la … my PC was alive again! zombie pocong now

  7. Kamil August 12, 2007 at 4:28 am - Reply

    Comment by Uncle Sha
    2007-08-08 02:14:11

    wow thanks for the info

    infact your’re partly correct!

    due to my gfx hardware error, the software cockup too .. i dunno how, but it did

    so i bootup a spare win xp on, put it on master and the cockup hdd on slave

    then i put in a new agp gfx

    bootup ok now … i chkhd the slave hdd and it fixed the error

    so now i’m a happy pup … making backups of all my impt data now

    really scared me that i lost all my precious data in my hdd

    He already mentioned that his PC is ok already. =P

    • Uncle Sha August 12, 2007 at 3:01 pm - Reply

      i think she too excited and missed that entry

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