Tech question: wtf has my dad done? Lol

[sooty]

I now get
That's if I can even get windows to load in safe mode originally. Most of the time I can't get it to load at all. No windows disc to use as it came on the comp. running vista (I know)
Any ideas how to fix?

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[hazrd]

the BSOD... every techs worst nightmare

Couple of things i can think of apart from opening it up and removing hardware parts one by one or having to reload everything, would be to use a Vista disc (i have one you can use), and then boot it into recovery mode and see if the "repair" feature works

Also, disconnect everything connected to the PC other than the KB/Mouse/Monitor, and see if it starts <-- Dave beat me to this part lol

Failing that... Let me it for a few hours. I would say id brotek it, but im actually qualified in this field

[hazrd]

Or, if its a brand name PC, it might have its own repair feature in it, however i couldnt tell you off the top of my head how it would work because every manufacturer's setup is different :/

[dglewis80]

This may sound stupid or you may have already done it, but sometimes an updated driver can cause this issue.

Unplug everything possible and see if it starts.

[dglewis80]

Also if you don't have the disk there might be a recovery partition on the PC itself.

With the PC's I've done this to, as soon as you get to the BIOS screen start hitting F9

[poita]

Have you tried turning it on and off again?


Ooooooorrrr jump onto another computer and download UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) stick it in and run that.

It has its on mini os as such and will let you run tests on the hardware, just to try and rule one thing out

[sooty]

Thanks nerds!
Dave was on the money, I'd noticed it was hanging on an avg 2012 driver even when loading in safe mode, so I looked in system32 and drivers and it was AVG that was last updated so I deleted it's drivers and uninstalled it, restarted and she seems all good, thanks guys!

[hazrd]

Woooooo!!

[dutchy]

Thanks nerds!
Dave was on the money, I'd noticed it was hanging on an avg 2012 driver even when loading in safe mode, so I looked in system32 and drivers and it was AVG that was last updated so I deleted it's drivers and uninstalled it, restarted and she seems all good, thanks guys!

Hey, mine did exactly the same !!! The computer guys also removed avg and put avast on. Problem solved.

[Feelinlucky75]

yup... avg has gone fail... too many virus writers targeting it now...