boot problems

BSOD info: *** STOP: 0X000000F4 (0X000000000000003, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2B30, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2E10, 0XFFFFF8000318e7b0 When trying to use system restore, I get "you must enable system protection on this drive" however, when I try to do this from command prompt using a windows 7 cd...

I had trouble booting from certain rescue disks. I have Win8.1 upgrade from Win8 now. Since then I have had several issues to work out. I thought my backups were working properly, but they are not. I looked at event viewer for File History. Come to find out I had a problem come up there. It...

Start on the first boot to the desktop after the upgrade to W8.1. It reported it could NOT connect to a network. Once I got to the desktop I opened the NETWORK AND SHARING CENTER and DISABLED and ENABLED my NIC. That made the connection. All was OK for a boot or two after that. However, on a...

Ok, i think i really screwed up. I ran a disk check and when it was about 27% i thought it was stuck because it wouldn't move from there, so i hard shut it down. (i should mention that it installed 11 updates when i restarted). When it restarted the prompt telling me to press any key to bypass...

Microsoft phone help and geek squad both didnt know what was wrong... computer goes through the initial 5 phases of installing windows and then states it will restart in 10 seconds and counts down and restarts... from here it restarts and I get a black screen with blinking cursor and once I...

I attempted to start in safe mode with the intension of running malwarebytes in safe mode but PC won't start in safe mode. Pressing F8 before splash screen but all I get is a small blue panel asking what drive to boot but whatever I do it always starts normally (apart from being mega slow to...

I bought a new computer but kept the HD which I had installed on my windows 8. The computer did boot normally but now asks for activation key, claiming that my product key is already installed on another computer. What should I do? I mean, I am not going to buy another license just because I...

My two weeks with two Windows 8 computers - one computer and one laptop. It's my very short story about Windows 8. Three months ago, I purchased a new computer with Windows 7 for my work . It has Intel Core i7-3770 and 8.0 GB RAM. During those months, I had ZERO issues with my computer...

Hi, since about 1 month my PC turns randomly off. Sometimes after 10 hours, sometimes after 2. Mostly when in Idle or when i'm watching movies on a second Monitor (TV but it also crashes if it is unplugged so thats not the reason). Sometimes when i try to boot again it wont start except if i...

Not sure if I posted in the correct place, so please do move the thread if it's in the wrong area. When I'm using my computer I tend to get a black screen at random times. So far they usually occur while I'm browsing the web and while I'm playing games while on Skype. This happened before and...

Greetings, I hope that this thread is acceptable in this forum. After upgrading to Windows 8 my CD/DVD unit (a Samsung - TSST corp CDDVDW Sh-S223L) will not be recognized unless a disc is inserted before boot. Then disc can be removed and new one inserted later. Any assistance appreciated. Stephen

Hi all, heres a quick run down of my problem. about a month ago my pc started having errors at bootup. it would get as far as the desktop, then freeze the desktop, allowing me to still use my mouse but i couldnt select anything and the system would hang. After restarting on average about...

Hi, I have an HP pavilion entertainment PC (hp pavilion dv4). Well my lap top needed and update one day and i pressed okay but the problem is that once it shutdown it would not even turn on. I mean the laptop would turn on but not the screen I tried doing the power option meaning i held the...

Hi to All, i have installed windows 7 home premium in my acer laptop and for 3 days its not starting as it shows the options repair and start window normally option but both are not working. I have only one drive in my laptop and all the files and Os is in the same drive and i donot...

I'm doing a fresh install on windows 7, instead of a disk it's on a thumb drive I have a 500 GB Partition I want to install windows to I went through setup and formatted the disk when I try to continue with the installation and get this error. "Windows was unable to setup a new system...

Hello, I recently was away for about a month and I did not use my desktop for that period of time. I tried turning it on yesterday and it would show the BIOS screen and then a black screen. It doesn't display anything else. I tried searching this problem and have tried various suggestions. I...

Basically I woke up this morning to my computer sitting at a black screen with the cursor visible I'm able to move the cursor but do nothing else I rebooted my computer my manually shutting it off and then it started up as it would normally but did this disc check: http://i.imgur.com/BKfTU.jpg...

I have a problem I have installed windows 8 and now I can't do a system recovery. I have a black screen appears an operating wasn't found. I have the CDs for recovery system and I tried to turn on the laptop with the CD in.nothing happens n I need help.... Please comment... Thank you for reading.

Hello this is CrazyKilla About 1 day ago i wanted to install windows 8 beta, after a couple restarts, everything working fine, windows 8 begins installing, i wait a while and it finally reaches 100%, and then the computer restarts, this time its different, it first starts at: PNY Geforce GTS 450...

Hello, Please help me to solve my BSOD. I have it for a few months. I upgraded from Win XP to 7, changed the antivirus/firewall system to Comodo, updated drivers and did other things. After changing 1 module of RAM 512 MB, some crashes disappeared, only bsod at boot time remained. I deleted...