PC startup problem: PLEASE HELP

Ok, so my problem is that when I boot my computer, it freezes at the startup screen. ie: Windows 2000 starting up, with the little bars that run left to right after the comand prompts screen. Well, one might think its my OS or something corupt on my hard drives, but I had a seperate HD with XP pro loaded on it and I pulled it from the closet and plugged it in and it too froze at the startup screen, so I'm thinking it must be something wrong with the motherboard, which I don't have specs with me. Thoughts? I can boot in safe mode and I found no bangs in my device manager, but thats all I could think of checking. Anyone know what they're doing with computers and can help a brotha out? Thanks in advance...

It sounds like a problem with the binary operations within your MXU database.



PS: I made up the last six words of the first sentence. They're actual words mind you (with the exception of MXU, that's just fancy nonsense), they just make no sense in the context of this thread.

the binary c0de said:

Ok, so my problem is that when I boot my computer, it freezes at the startup screen. ie: Windows 2000 starting up, with the little bars that run left to right after the comand prompts screen. Well, one might think its my OS or something corupt on my hard drives, but I had a seperate HD with XP pro loaded on it and I pulled it from the closet and plugged it in and it too froze at the startup screen, so I'm thinking it must be something wrong with the motherboard, which I don't have specs with me. Thoughts? I can boot in safe mode and I found no bangs in my device manager, but thats all I could think of checking. Anyone know what they're doing with computers and can help a brotha out? Thanks in advance...

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When you boot into safe mode, run a chkdsk on the drive.

Click Start->Run->type in CMD (no caps). Should open a Command/DOS prompt. Type chkdsk c: /f /v /r /x . It should tell you the drive is in use and ask if you want to schedule the check for the next reboot. You want to schedule for the reboot then restart the machine.

And if you are worried about what all my slashes do because you think I'm fucking with you (which I'm not), they are:

/f Fix errors
/v display any error messages or problems
/r repair bad sectors and attempt to recover data
/x dismount drive if needed before running check

You may also want to try to run a repair on the Windows installation if you still have problems, but I'll leave those instructions for later if this doesn't work for you.