• Computer restarting on startup
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Alright. A few days ago my brother came up to visit, and he got on my computer. He said he tried to download a movie (while I was sleeping), and when I woke up and went to my computer the startup repair was running. I waited for it to finish, restarted the computer and it worked. Got in and there was a fucking shitload of viruses. Booted in safe mode, removed the viruses, and after that it started fucking up. I'd start the computer, half the time it'd restart after getting to a certain point in loading (I determined this since it always restarts at a certain part of the Windows 7 loading animation (the ball thing)). I'd try a few times and it'd work. Now, I can't get it to boot at all. Every single time it restarts at startup. I can't seem to get it to boot from DVD, either. I put my Windows 7 DVD in, still starts up the same way. If I can get it to boot JUST ONCE I'm gonna backup some important files, format and re-install W7. Can anyone help me out, so I can get it to boot at least ONCE? :/
To get into the boot disk, you'll need to change your boot sequence. When it starts up, enter the BIOS (try pressing delete on that scary black screen that opens up early (Or on the "bioware" screen if you have a similar motherboard to mine, mines a gigabyte) Then if you go into the advanced bios features menu, and find the option that says boot sequence (I think) and enter it, youll be able to choose the first device it looks for, if you choose CD ROM it'll give you the option to boot from said CD on boot up. Simple probably. Of course you need to press a key when it prompts you to do so, and it'll go into the disk. Now if that works, and you can get into the Win7 boot disk, here are some suggestions: If you have more than one drive, you could try installing windows (Or a good old fashioned lightweight install of XP) onto the second drive and moving everything you need across to the same drive. Then simply reformatting the first drive, copying everything back across and possibly reformatting the second drive to be certain of cleanliness, and to remove the second install of windows. Actually, this sounds very familiar to a virus that I had, and luckily there was a happy ending. By trying to install windows again, it'll detect the current version of windows. It'll ask if you want to carry on regardless or repair the install. If you choose repair, it'll essentially reinstall windows, yet keep all other data on the drive nice and as-it-is. It sounds like the virus has effected your boot sector, meaning that it did something as a final "fuck you" much like a skunk, and doing the repair should fix it. The third option is also quite simple, there are bootable programs that allow you to access your hard drive, and copy them to disks / USB drives / floppy disks if your mad. If you where to somehow obtain one of these (try googling "bootable file browser" or something similar) you would be able to backup all the most improtant files and reformat. There's 3 options, I'll still try and think of more options as of course, nothing is guaranteed to work with computers. Sorry if I started a little low down, I can't assume anything when it comes to helping people, oh and sorry if I'm overly terrible at explaining things.
[QUOTE=one free man;23692018]To get into the boot disk, you'll need to change your boot sequence. When it starts up, enter the BIOS (try pressing delete on that scary black screen that opens up early (Or on the "bioware" screen if you have a similar motherboard to mine, mines a gigabyte) Then if you go into the advanced bios features menu, and find the option that says boot sequence (I think) and enter it, youll be able to choose the first device it looks for, if you choose CD ROM it'll give you the option to boot from said CD on boot up. Simple probably. Of course you need to press a key when it prompts you to do so, and it'll go into the disk. Now if that works, and you can get into the Win7 boot disk, here are some suggestions: If you have more than one drive, you could try installing windows (Or a good old fashioned lightweight install of XP) onto the second drive and moving everything you need across to the same drive. Then simply reformatting the first drive, copying everything back across and possibly reformatting the second drive to be certain of cleanliness, and to remove the second install of windows. Actually, this sounds very familiar to a virus that I had, and luckily there was a happy ending. By trying to install windows again, it'll detect the current version of windows. It'll ask if you want to carry on regardless or repair the install. If you choose repair, it'll essentially reinstall windows, yet keep all other data on the drive nice and as-it-is. It sounds like the virus has effected your boot sector, meaning that it did something as a final "fuck you" much like a skunk, and doing the repair should fix it. The third option is also quite simple, there are bootable programs that allow you to access your hard drive, and copy them to disks / USB drives / floppy disks if your mad. If you where to somehow obtain one of these (try googling "bootable file browser" or something similar) you would be able to backup all the most improtant files and reformat. There's 3 options, I'll still try and think of more options as of course, nothing is guaranteed to work with computers. Sorry if I started a little low down, I can't assume anything when it comes to helping people, oh and sorry if I'm overly terrible at explaining things.[/QUOTE] I already changed the boot order, I forgot to mention that. In my BIOS, however, there's not simple "CD-ROM" etc. It's a bunch of strings of letters/numbers. I tried changing the first to each one that was listed (there was three), and it still never booted from DVD. Tried putting it in both of my drives, still nothing. :/ I'm probably going to end up installing a new copy of Windows on my 2nd hard drive, since all it has on it are all my steam games, nothing important or irreplaceable.
There should be more than 3 options I believe (Inside the menus of the various boot devices, IE: When you press enter on the things in the image below) are you sure that you'r in the right part of the BIOS? If you plan on installing it to your second drive, first you'll actually need to get into the boot disk, which is quite a problem. I've remembered now, that inside the bios the boot sector thing should look like this: [URL="http://img251.imageshack.us/i/changebootsequencethumb.png/"][IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3507/changebootsequencethumb.png[/IMG][/URL] You should change the "first boot device" to CD ROM by pressing enter on it, and selecting CD from the menu. Then the next time it starts up, it should say something along the lines of "boot from CD- Press any key to boot from CD"
[QUOTE=one free man;23693993]There should be more than 3 options I believe (Inside the menus of the various boot devices, IE: When you press enter on the things in the image below) are you sure that you'r in the right part of the BIOS? If you plan on installing it to your second drive, first you'll actually need to get into the boot disk, which is quite a problem. I've remembered now, that inside the bios the boot sector thing should look like this: [URL="http://img251.imageshack.us/i/changebootsequencethumb.png/"][IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3507/changebootsequencethumb.png[/IMG][/URL] You should change the "first boot device" to CD ROM by pressing enter on it, and selecting CD from the menu. Then the next time it starts up, it should say something along the lines of "boot from CD- Press any key to boot from CD"[/QUOTE] I got it to work. I had to unplug my secondary HDD, and my CD drive for the boot device priority menu to work correctly. For some reason, it was listing my two HDDs and then the floppy drive. After removing the previously stated components (temporarily, obviously) it listed the DVD drive, my HDD and the floppy. Currently installing windows (I formatted C:)
Aah, interesting Have you lost anything in particular, or is this a success? Anywho, well done on figuring it out, it's not easy
Posting from my computer :) I lost everything on my C:/ drive, nothing EXTREMELY important other than some CD-Keys for a couple games (Cortex Command in particular :/). I didn't format my other drive, so I kept all my Steam games, a couple other games, and some other shit. Overall I'm actually glad I did this as my computer was getting quite bogged down, and now it's fast as fuck :v:
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