my computer freezes when windows loads and then restarts constantly?

Question

as soon as windows has loaded up everything freezes and then computer restarts over and over again.anyone know why?

Answer 1

There could be several reasons. One could be a virus. If you have a virus scanner, I'd suggest checking that. If not, you might want to have a computer professional look at it. I've been working on a computer at work that had a problem similar to this. I at first thought it was the hard-drive, replaced that, but the problem didn't go away. I noticed that the capacitors on the board weren't flat (The tops were pushed up, and one was leaking fluid). That's not good, since that's the power-supply. If that's the problem, you may need a whole new board. But, like I said, you'll want to check with a computer professional, and have him/her look at it to be sure (unless you know what you're doing, then by all means, do it yourself and save some money).

A couple of other suggestions: try starting in safe mode. If you don't know how to do this, when you boot your computer, press F8. If that doesn't work, try to boot it with command prompt, and run a directory of the C: drive, also make sure you check system 32 to ensure that all the files are there. To do that, you'll have to go to c: windows\system32 dir

That will let you check the directory of that, and help you ensure that all your files are there. This is a list of the files that should be there. If one of these is missing, you won't be able to load Windows correctly: http://personal.cfw.com/~tkprit/files/files32.html


I hope this helps.

Answer 2

sounds like a virus
think maybe the blast virus causes this problem
download from microsoft will cure that or try AVG
if not restore to a time previous to the problem as it could be a fault in the registry or did the problem start after you installed a program? if so uninstall the program
if you have a XP disc you could load that and try to repair or reinstall
remember bakup all info on the hdd that is important before you start any repairs

Answer 3

START YOUR COMPUTER IN SAFE MODE AND CLICK START AND RUN THEN TYPE REGEDIT AND HIT ENTER AND CHECK THE FOLDER hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run THE BEST THING TO DO IS DELETE EVERYTHING IN THERE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOEING AND THAT MIGHT FIX THE PROBLEM AND IF YOU NOTICE THAT SOME OF YOUR PROGRAMS DONT WORK ANYMORE THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE TO RE INSTALL THEM ALSO CHECK THE STARTUP FOLDER IN THE START MENU THAT SHOULD RESTORE SOME STABILTY SO YOU CAN RUN YOUR COMPUTER IN NORMAL MODE IF YOU GET IT STARTED IN NORMAL MODE YOU MIGHT WANA TRY RUNNING ANTIVIRUS AND SPYWARE SCANNERS IF YOU DO HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS SPYWARE YOU MIGHT WANA DOWNLOAD SOME SORT OF FIREWALL SOFTWARE GO TO WWW.ZONELABS.COM AND DOWNLOAD A FIREWALL RUN A DEFRAG A SCANDISK AND MAKE SURE YOUR C DRIVE IS NO MORE THAT 35% FULL AND IF YOUR COMPUTER IS TOTALY F@CKED UP YOU MIGHT WANA TRY A FORMAT AND REINSTALL OF WINDOWS HOPE THIS HELPS YOU

Answer 4

This sounds like you might have an illigal copy of windows Installed and you went to update it and well now your screwed untill you bye a ligit copy of windows.

Or you have a virus and will need to format your computer

Answer 5

Well first i would go to safe-mode and see if anythings wrong. If you find anything try to fix it, then if thats not the case go back to safemode backup all the files that you don't want to lose, and pop in your Operating System Cd and reload it. If it comes back tell me i bet i can help.

Answer 6

probably a setting in one of the config files is making it look for a file or try to load something that isn't there.

try and reinstall windows

Answer 7

Could be a virus. Tried starting it in Safe Mode?

Answer 8

:) jsut chk your COMPUTER`s processer FAN is it working fine or not .. you cna chk it from your BIOS settings jsut pressing F2 orF10 or DEL button and in HARDWARE monitering ou can chk fan speed ...

if its above 2000 rpm than its fine than chk your RAM or Computer POWER SUPPLY :)

i think there is no SOFTWARE Problem

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Answer 9

start it in safe mode and then reinstall to an earlier date!

Answer 10

sounds like it wants formatting