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June 16, 2005 at 4:25 pm #18756colinMember
I have WinXP Pro SP2. a few days ago i added a scanner, and it was working fine. this morning i walked into my computer room, and woke up the monitor. i got the “monitor is in power save mode. activate using PC” thing. i never know what to do when that happens, so i just hit the restart button. then instead of restarting, it keeps on going into the boot-up thing over and over. Then I saw that my CPU was at 130 degrees, so I waited a few hours and tried again…Same exact thing. Then I unplugged all my scanner stuff, thinking that might be the problem. Same thing happens. I also tried booting in safe mode, and it just keeps on restarting. Any ideas? I am getting desperate.
June 16, 2005 at 4:40 pm #124472m3rcyMembersounds like a hardware issue. or something with your bios?
try resetting your bios to default. (thats if you havn’t made any hardware changes)June 16, 2005 at 5:06 pm #124466colinMemberI reset bios and cmos to default, and the same thing keeps happening…
June 17, 2005 at 6:28 am #124471Jon8RFCMemberIs your heatsink still physically on the cpu? Heh, I know it sounds dumb, but if it is truly heating up that quickly, that’s the only thing I can think of…if thefan was dead, it should at least stay on for a short while. What processor is in there?
June 17, 2005 at 9:27 pm #124468dreadMember130 degress celsius or fahrenheit? I assume fahrenheit cuase if it was 130 celsius it would have blown way before that. Make sure everything is plugged up and seated good ram video card etc… You could start from scratch and take out all cards but the video card and try to start the computer even unhook the mouse and keyboard. If you still have problems with nothing connected but ram video card and cpu you know its one of them 3 maybe a bios setting or a stick of ram bad or something with the video card. If it starts up fine then hook up mouse if it starts fine then turn it off and hook up the keyboard if starts fine then turn it off and add like sound card and start up the comp. Keep doing that and you can narrow it down.
June 17, 2005 at 10:30 pm #124464DavidParticipantHe has access to the NT Loader, so it’s probably not a hardware failure issue (other than perhaps bad sectors on the disk). And 130F is not really that hot if the computer was cycling through the POST multiple times. (I’m currently at 114°F with my Intel 3.4Ghz CPU, and some run much hotter than this)
I have instructed Colin to obtain a windows XP CD and repair his installation, since it sounds like a driver conflict is preventing Windows from starting properly.
June 17, 2005 at 11:19 pm #124469dreadMemberI know 130F isnt. Thats only 54C. But 130C is like I said I assume fahrenheit cuase if it was 130 celsius it would have done fried the cpu.
June 18, 2005 at 12:35 am #124467colinMemberOk, I got the boot CD but it won’t run, or even recognize that the CD is in there. I have tried changing my boot sequence to CD-ROM first, then HD-0 second, but still no luck. This is really frustrating, any other suggestions? Maybe some more of my BIOS settings are incorrect…
June 18, 2005 at 7:17 am #124470dreadMemberIs the cd good? Try it in another computer to see if it will boot. It should boot like that if you bios is set to boot cd first. Make sure the cdrom is plugged in good ide and power cables.
June 19, 2005 at 3:45 am #124473m3rcyMemberdo you have a xp startup disk?
(a floppy)try booting from that.
don’t forget to change your bios.June 19, 2005 at 11:58 pm #124465EEDOKMemberdoes a live cd work(like kanotix)? If that works without restarting you should be able to fix it by inserting your windows XP install disc and going into the recovery console and issuing chkdsk /r
EDIT: looks like this has been tried, ok so then if it’s not recognizing CD’s check in the BIOS first to make sure it’s recognizing your CD drive. If it is being recognized try unplugging the power source to your hard drive and floppy drive(if you have one) and then see if it’ll recognize CD’s. If that works it seems your power supply is not giving your computer enough power. -
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