crashing

[ThePhantom]

anybody have any idea why my computer keeps crashing spontaniousley? and a lot of times it cannot start up right.. it will just crash as if i turned it off then back on .. it is working fine except for that :?

[Kiros]

Heh, I just fixed a friend's laptop that was doing this. There's possibly a virus that's on your computer, or (the more likely possibility) your computer has too many problems with it. Just download Spybot S&D, download all of it's updates, then do a scan of everything and remove it all (that will erase your start menu's recent applications, so you might want to leave Windows - for drivers - and Windows Explorer alone). After that, if some weren't removed, just keep clicking "Fix selected problems" until it removes all it can. Now, go Mode >> Advanced mode >> Yes. On the left bottom, go to tools. On the right, check all of the check boxes. Back on the left, click ActiveX and BHOs looking for anything that's marked red - if you find something, remove it with the "Remove" button. Now go to System Startup and anything marked in red, remove with the "Delete" button. While there, you might want to tweak your startup. Now go to System Internals and do a check. This will point out bad, corrupt, or misleading registies that might hurt the system. Some might be bogus, but you can figure out which ones are good and which aren't, right? :) Go to IE Tweaks tab and check Lock Host file... That will guard IE well. Now go to the Spybot-S&D tab at the top and click Immunize >> Immunize. The rest you can figure out later.

Delete your browser cache, then go and update it! That's one of the main keys. You have to update it or it might contain obsolete entries or be vunerable to some attacks (buffer overflow, etc).

That should do it. It only takes an hour to do and it works for me :)

[Skhorpion]

or you can simply format and reinstall

[ThePhantom]

My brand new computer doesnt have a virus on it trust me . . it is most deffinitley having to do with xp itself. it crashes on restart when it is about to boot up xp . . .i put in the (bootleg) xp install disk and booted from that but it had an error on it .. which is weird because when i installed xp the first time it didnt. this has to be the cause of it i guess

[Kiros]

I told you what worked for me. My friend's laptop didn't have a virus on it. All it had was a little spyware, corrupt registries, and a need for updates.

If you don't want to listen to my advice, then figure it out yourself :)

[Skhorpion]

if its a bootleg copy i laugh at your downfall

i blame your fake cd

[ThePhantom]

i do too lol

Kiros i am not being mean i am just simply saying there is no fucking way i can get that program on my computer if it crashes on startup every time now . . heck now it doesnt even crash . . it is not just starting . . then getting a black screen ;)

[Kiros]

Then try to go in to the BIOS and see if it crashes then. If not, change some settings because it's most definitely something wrong with your memory. Heh, if it does crash, then get a new computer :lol:

[Aηdy]

Then try to go in to the BIOS and see if it crashes then. If not, change some settings because it's most definitely something wrong with your memory. Heh, if it does crash, then get a new computer :lol:

if its that bad then yer ur pc is trash!

[Skhorpion]

not really, he could have fuxxored latencies or something

download memtest86 on another comp, burn to cd, run overnight

[Aηdy]

yer..but surely if its a new pc it would have sume sort of garuntee unless its custom or sumthing!

[Skhorpion]

unless its custom or sumthing!

its custom....

[Aηdy]

ooooh shame...

[Kiros]

Well, I'm sure that Alex checked the system for compatibility issues before it was built, so it shouldn't have horrible latency or any hardware problems. If he tried to overclock it, then he could have set something wrong in the CMOS setup, and that might of damaged it's hardware, but other than that, it should work from what Alex has said.

[ThePhantom]

Of course i checked for compatability :P . . none of this crap was happening before i tried to reinstall xp with a different cd key to be able to update to xp sp2 . . . it ran just fine when i went into the bios . . just looked around and didnt change anything. i will no longer run bootleg! ( unless i found it myself)

ok more like i will never accept bootleg from somebody else hehe .. uncle is coming over tommorow .. wait no s,.. sunday with a real xp sp2 that his company uses and they have a lot of extra and such so he is letting me use one of the cd keys yay .. he s also an it guy (or was going to ) and is realy the techy of the family soo he will be helping me tommorow

[Kiros]

Ya know... you could always PM someone to share that legal CD key of yours :D

Sharing is the best!

[Skhorpion]

after you begin sharing, that legal key becomes an illegal key :P

[ThePhantom]

i think they already found it was a highley ... legal .. too legal... :P ........... cd to be used so they blocked all 50 cd keys that were .. . borrowed . . . from being udpated :)

[Underage_Thinker]

Dam u bill gates!!!! The bootlehers will get their revenge. :lol:

[ThePhantom]

ya he doesnt like when things are too legal ..

[Kiros]

after you begin sharing, that legal key becomes an illegal key :P

Yeah, but we wouldn't leak anything, so no one would know that key was shared ;)

[ThePhantom]

like i would ever trust you kiros! :P . . . we all know you are a secret agent undercover

[Kiros]

Crap... better inform the boss.

Corona to BigRed, Corona to BigRed...
Call in the bombers!

They know . . .

[Skhorpion]

"Too late Corona, he has already rented someone to pwn us"

[ThePhantom]

Haha you are all wrong.. sadley . . .

The hardrive has a nice little scratch in it making an error every time we try to install xp . . uncle told meh that when he came over .. we are just gunna turn it in for anothe rone if they let us

[Waiting]

anybody have any idea why my computer keeps crashing spontaniousley? and a lot of times it cannot start up right.. it will just crash as if i turned it off then back on .. it is working fine except for that :?

this = my story
mine is a year old tho
i had spybot s&d and didnt fix the problem,
i hope urs doesnt do what mine did
mine kept dying spontaniouslty and then once it just didnt turn back on wwhen i tried
its in the shop now
oh dear

[Skhorpion]

how do you figure the drive has a scratch on it?

i can take a small grinder to the outside of mine and it wouldnt make a difference

as long as the platters and head is good it doesnt matter what shape the outside is

[Kiros]

He probably means a corrupt sector in the disk. It might not be fixable through ScanDisk.