Xaxtly Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Hi, I usualy leave my computer running and today when i came back my computer for some reason had reset i believe it had reset because (when i went Afk my World of Warcraft login screen was up), and now the screen is focused (as in the computer will only boot up to that page)on my motherboard page(The page that tells you your CPu and ide info). So i cannot perform a safe boot (i have tried many times)and i do not have my Windows XP disc (Lost it like a fool). Please help!Here as of 11:19 pacific time. Edited October 23, 2008 by Xaxtly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Shut it down and unplug it. Check all cabling and the power supply. Clean any dust out while you have the case open. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) some times a frozen screen is caused by hard ware not seated properlyand as tt posted. dust bunniescheck all your hard ware and make sure the right drivers are installed and make surethe hardware cards are seated in the slotsand last make sure you dont have a virusmost times this is the reasonand posters are reluctant to admit ithow how did you post to the board did you use some one elses comptive never lost my diskmarty Edited October 24, 2008 by martymas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Can you boot to the bios? Normally after the POST beep it says something like "Press Del to enter setup" may be F1, alt tab etc.Do you have any bootable CDs? Or can you obtain one (download and burn to CDR something like Knoppix or Ultimate Boot CD, even an antivirus CD will do) This will help confirm that the computer itself is working ,just that windows is having issues.Do you have your windows Product key? (should be on the case or in the documentation accompanying the CD you lost)Does it freeze after the BIOS splash or does it start to load windows and then freeze? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Xaxtly Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 It freezes at the bios splash and its the only page itll show i cleaned much of the dust and im hoping itll work. Everything is set up correctly and no bootable cd's. I went to a cyber cafeto post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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