my friends computer when hes playing games it crashes when hes doing anything on his comp it crashes and now we cant even start it up it gets to the windows loading screen and sittes there for Ever but sometimes it just goes blank i think it might be the cpu overheating or somethink.
Hey How old is this comptuer ? When the computer starts up, after it does the POST, before the Windows 98 Splash Screen, keep pressing F8, till a menu comes up, select 'Safe Mode' and see if it will boot into safe mode. It could just be a program installed recently that has buggered one of the start-up config files. Regards CoZZa
it is still under warranty it sometimes bootes so its not any program but when ot majorly bodges up u wait awhile(could be 10min could be 1 hour) and it works again thats why i think its the cpu.
It could still be a program causing this, sometimes it loads, sometimes it doesnt. Turn the comptuer on, and leave on for a few hours and just play around with it, if it lasts that long, its not the CPU, as still being under warranty to me means that its a new P4 machine, which usually have heat sensors, so if the CPU overheats, it will Beep and shutdown till it cools down. Regards CoZZa
In most cases this seems to be how things turn out Hell I think everything since the P2's had a thermal sensor! EYEShurt: might a reformat do the trick? (if not just to eliminate the possibility that it's software) and yeah, we need some specs
reformating is out of the question he is a bit no dont do that!!!!!!!!!!!! about reformating ill get the specs as soon as i can
