I was using my pc today like normal when 70% of my apps stopped responding..I can't really do much to it at this point..so I hit the reset button.
It booted into the windows loading screen and even finished loading..but then it will stall at a black screen forever...not getting into windows.
Safe mode crashed before it even try to load windows
Then I decided that I sorta needed a format anyway...I booted up the winxp cd and everything was running fine till it stopped at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen. It would stall there forever, just like the black screen.
I've tried swapping memory since I have extra lying around..clearing out the bios, unplugging different harddisks...none of it helped..but i didn't expect it to, I was just trying anything.
It doesn't seem software oriented..since I can't even boot from a CD..and it doesn't seem hardware oriented since everything is always detected and all works well till it needs to load into windows.
Any ideas, suggestions, comments..? Any response will be greatly appreciated..thanks.
btw...i'm at a point where no overclocking is involved ...
It booted into the windows loading screen and even finished loading..but then it will stall at a black screen forever...not getting into windows.
Safe mode crashed before it even try to load windows
Then I decided that I sorta needed a format anyway...I booted up the winxp cd and everything was running fine till it stopped at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen. It would stall there forever, just like the black screen.
I've tried swapping memory since I have extra lying around..clearing out the bios, unplugging different harddisks...none of it helped..but i didn't expect it to, I was just trying anything.
It doesn't seem software oriented..since I can't even boot from a CD..and it doesn't seem hardware oriented since everything is always detected and all works well till it needs to load into windows.
Any ideas, suggestions, comments..? Any response will be greatly appreciated..thanks.
btw...i'm at a point where no overclocking is involved ...