Hey all I hope someone can help. I have had my Cyberpower PC for over two years now and every now and then the operating system has had issues loading. Recently though the problem has come back and got very bad. It seems to be getting progressively worse. Basically I turn the PC on and it starts booting. When it gets to the loading bar it just carries on and on and on. Now it used to eventually boot after say 5-15 minutes. Today for the first time it didn't boot at all. I left it for 30 minutes and nothing. It just kept trying to load. I restarted and did get it to work after 15 minutes. Then I made the mistake of restarting again to update AVG and gah it wouldn;t boot again. I haven't tried safe mode yet. I will later though. It could be so many things. From the harddrive to something else. Any help would be appreciated Thank u Lee
right then , as you say it's 2yrs old and the amount of junk that vista collects in that time is quite scarey, what happens is eventually the junk builds up and slows everything right down utill it gets to the stage that you are at now, what you need to do is have a damn good spring clean to remove it all.Some times though it all gets so messy that even this wont work, it might help a little bit but wont cure the problem..The other way is to get everything off the PC that you need to keep and reinstall vista. What I find helps out is once you have reinstalled, load all your software windows service packs etc then take a full back up that way if you run into the same thing again just launch the back up and away you go
Actually bulldogjeff, not really, Vista is not like XP. I know that AVG does a stupid system scan while Windows boot which should explain the big part of the problem. You can take you system back in time where it used to work.. or work better, by inserting Vista disk into the system and boot from there. Once the setup is loaded, click on "Repair your computer" instead of "Install now" And you'll have the option "System restore" in there which you can pick. You can also try, before a system restore, a Windows startup repair, which can be found in the same place. Once you can go in Windows here is what you do: 1- Uninstall ALL Anti-virus and system protection software. (don't restart) 2- Open service.msc (type that in the search box in the start menu), and look for non-Windows service (usually they don't have descriptions, or simply impossible that it's related to Windows.. like Bonjour service, FlexNet, Apple services, etc..) Once found, double click on them and select Stop and then in the drop down box, select "Disable". Feel free to look on the net for the service name to make sure it's not a Windows service. 3- Remove ALL tool bars that you have installed, weather it's Norton, Google, Ask, Yahoo, ALL GONE! Uninstall them! 4- Download and install (uncheck the box for Yahoo (or any other) Tool bar) CCleaner (free) here: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard 5- Once done, open CCleaner and do a system scan > clean up, and repeat the same for the registry (do 2-3 registry clean up, one after another, until it says it found no more problems). 6- Unplug any USB devices attached to your computer (except keyboard and mouse, of course). Restart your computer. The restart might be slow, be patient. 7- In CCleaner, go under "Tools" > "Startup", and remove every startup program that you see in the list. I want to see the list empty, and restart your computer again. Is your problem solved? If not, download the latest drivers for all your computer hardware (motherboard, sound card, graphic card, etc...), uninstall all of them, use CCleaner to do a registry cleaning, and install them back. If it still fails, then you have malware that you executed on your computer at some point in time, and a full re-install would be needed (don't forget to backup your data).
I see where you are coming form GoodBytes but I've found when vista gets that messy and slow a clean install is the way to go, extreme i know but we've all got our own ways of dealing with problems with vista...Yet I have found with Xp and anything before it a good clean out sorted it all out
A "repair" will not ensure you have a clean system, just a working system. I do hope it's not this, but I had an identical problem with an ASUS core 2 duo based HTPC, the fault was hardware related. The machine was basically operational, but was unreliable at booting. The bad news for me? I never solved it, the hardware was totally fried. Worked to a point, but would never ever install an OS again.
Of course, clean install is the best solution. But I like to offer an alternative to him, in the case he doesn't have the time to perform a clean install (ie: final exams at school or school/work projects)
Ah jenny ,I've seen that before .9 times out of 10 it's hard drive getting ready to die, once you get to many bad sectors reinstalling becomes pretty much a non starter..And as the disk is in such a bad state it cant be read properly and hence this leads to the failed boots and eratic behavior, this is normally a good time to get anything off that you've saved before it does decide to leave this world for good
Hey guys thank you for all the advice. Hehe don't worry Im 34 so no exams. The final straw came tonight when I was about to run a WoW raid and my PC shut down for no reason and then I couldn't get it started again. I have decided to just get a new harddrive and a copy of windows 7 to sort this out. My OEM copy of windows that came with my pc doesn't let me repair and the MS serial number seems to not be working. I haven't done a build in five+ years. It will be interesting to get it all working. Thx all.
If you have business system or Dell, then you Windows disk should be a pre-activated version of Windows by Microsoft (no image). The product key on your system is deactivated, and to activated you need to call Microsoft Activation Center. You can get it activated (free of charge). The key is there in the case the Windows disk is broken, or lost, or don't have the disks.
OEM arggghhhhhh!!! you are gona have to spend the next 3 days on the phone to microsoft trying to sort out licence code...I know it's a bit late now but even though retail is about 25% more expensive you can install and reinstall as much as you like with it....As for the recovery disk, you can download it free, from the microsoft download site.
No he won't. it's a 2 sec phone call (if you are nice). They will just ask why? and if he used the product key somewhere else? And provide you with an override code, to activate your Windows.
In fact, you may just go straight through to the automated system, whereby you enter the numbers in groups and you then get read back another few groups of alphanumerics which you type in.
