Recent content by Comharsa

Just in case anyone else bothers reading this I have given up on hoping for a reply and decided to build a new PC - luckily all my data was backed up on a home server.

Well I had a day of it working, even if without the DVD drive, but today it decides it isn't going to start again, just hangs on the "Starting Windows" screen. This happens whether I try to start normally, safe mode or startup repair.

After numerous attempts Startup Repair finally completed and I was able to log in and use the command prompt. I set chkdsk running in read only mode and left this running overnight - when I came back to it the window had closed so I didn't get a chance to see the results. However, the PC was...

I haven't been able to log in for long enough to try yet unfortunately. The couple of occasions I have managed to get to the desktop today it has frozen within a very short time. At the moment it is running Startup Repair, and says that it is fixing disk errors. If I ever manage to get to a...

Well I've tried various things but nothing seems to work. As the DVD drive doesn't work I can't boot from my Win disk - put it on a memory stick and booted from that but it gets so far then hangs. Wondering if it could be a hardware problem - motherboard possibly. Any suggestions as to how I...

OK - don't seem to be able to start up in safe mode. It starts "Loading Windows Files", gets as far as CLASSPNP.SYS then hangs. Have tried a few times and gets nowhere. Edit: Googled this (luckily have a netbook as well) and this seems to be a known problem, even if there seem to be a number of...

I'm at work at the moment, but will give that a try when I get home and let you know. It often wants to start up in "Startup Repair" mode, which I have allowed it to do a few times but with no change to the problems.

Thanks for the reply, I must admit I had wondered about a trojan or something like that but don't know enough to be sure. I use Kaspersky Internet protection which should cover me for viruses and other malware, and this is updated on a daily basis. I will try one of the free ones to see if...

Just joined as I seem to be having a major PC problem (probably why most people join!). I've been running Win7 since last October without any problems, then in the last couple of weeks everything seems to be going wrong. I first noticed that the DVD drive wasn't working as it should - when I...