Help needed with windows login

[Psychic]

@Psychic were there any power fluctuations or improper shut downs ?

Computer was turned off by load shedding while my younger brother was playing some game.

 

[IrbiS]

Computer was turned off by load shedding while my younger brother was playing some game.

And as the case with most of us Pakistanis, it happens somewhat regular?

 

[Hyde]

It's not a laptop, but problem is that so called computer repairmen in the market do not know much either, they will do hit and trail and even declare a fine piece of hardware as faulty. Then there is way too much fleecing in this bussiness. I had a thread in pipeline which I would have posted some time today. Cant compose with cell phone.

people will confuse you with all the computer terms they know and they are right about it

But 90 times out of 100, it's a bad memory/RAM issue. You can easily install Windows 98, XP in your laptop but when you go for heavy version it will cause trouble for the RAM. So try to install light version of windows of your choice and I am positive it will happen... You will need to format the hard drive though and start from scratch

 

[Psychic]

And as the case with most of us Pakistanis, it happens somewhat regular?

Yes, we rarely shut it down, most of the times loadshedding do the job for us.

people will confuse you with all the computer terms they know and they are right about it

But 90 times out of 100, it's a bad memory/RAM issue. You can easily install Windows 98, XP in your laptop but when you go for heavy version it will cause trouble for the RAM. So try to install light version of windows of your choice and I am positive it will happen... You will need to format the hard drive though and start from scratch

Most people are saying its RAM fault but still I want to confirm before purchasing a new one because windows xp might be a temporary fix because my brothers do gamming and they need hefty amount of RAM to do so.

 

[JonAsad]

RAM is out of the question-
RAM issue gives a beep at startup-
If you are able to go to loading screen that means ram has almost done its job that means its working- because there is RAM check at startup along with HDD check and other stuff-

Press f8 and f9 while booting the system-
There comes an option "last configuration that worked" try that-

2nd-
Make sure to remove any USB or CD from the computer- remove the keyboard and mouse USB as well-
Hopefully removing all USB will work-

Try that-

 

[IrbiS]

Yes, we rarely shut it down, most of the times loadshedding do the job for us.

Most people are saying its RAM fault but still I want to confirm before purchasing a new one because windows xp might be a temporary fix because my brothers do gamming and they need hefty amount of RAM to do so.

Birader it's bad sectors on your hard imo. My brother's laptop was acting same so I started window repair, it didn't do any thing but there's an option it gives on windows 7 to access hard drives in a small window if you can find it. Go to C Drive's properties and run check disk utility with both boxes checked. Restart and let it check. It worked then and window started working.


Or last ditch option without loosing data is to install window on any drive other than C, run it and move it's older data to somewhere else. Delete older windows from C and change the new windows's drive letter to C with just a restart using a software I can recommend until you change hard. I've done this too

 

[Hyde]

Yes, we rarely shut it down, most of the times loadshedding do the job for us.

Most people are saying its RAM fault but still I want to confirm before purchasing a new one because windows xp might be a temporary fix because my brothers do gamming and they need hefty amount of RAM to do so.

You can make bootable USB for windows and then install it from there... Try to download the copy of windows 7 with file size of less than 1 GB... Try to find the portable windows in my opinion. I think the installation will be completely successfully... Make sure you are installing a clean copy of windows... a

You don't have to buy the RAM right now.. may be you can borrow from somebody... or try the portable version of windows first and may be you will continue to use that forever

 

[Psychic]

RAM is out of the question-
RAM issue gives a beep at startup-

Press f8 and f9 while booting the system-
There comes an option "last configuration that worked" try that-

2nd-
Make sure to remove any USB or CD from the computer- remove the keyboard and mouse USB as well-
Hopefully removing all USB will work-

Try that-

I tried the second one without any positive result.

 

[JonAsad]

I tried the second one without any positive result.

Try the first one if not then do this-
Reset your BIOS to default-
Then see in the BIOS if your hard drive is detected and CD ROM aswell-
If its HD that's not detected remove it put in another PC and use scandisk- if CD ROM then just remove the cd rom drive connection and restart-

If still didn't work make a bootable win8 or win 7 CD and try clean install- if there is HDD problem you wouldn't be able to reinstall windows-

 

[Psychic]

You can make bootable USB for windows and then install it from there... Try to download the copy of windows 7 with file size of less than 1 GB... Try to find the portable windows in my opinion. I think the installation will be completely successfully... Make sure you are installing a clean copy of windows... a

You don't have to buy the RAM right now.. may be you can borrow from somebody... or try the portable version of windows first and may be you will continue to use that forever

Will try the usb installation. Do I need to format all of my partitions when I install it? How will my pc perform after that? will it become slow?

Birader it's bad sectors on your hard imo. My brother's laptop was acting same so I started window repair, it didn't do any thing but there's an option it gives on windows 7 to access hard drives in a small window if you can find it. Go to C Drive's properties and run check disk utility with both boxes checked. Restart and let it check. It worked then and window started working.


Or last ditch option without loosing data is to install window on any drive other than C, run it and move it's older data to somewhere else. Delete older windows from C and change the new windows's drive letter to C with just a restart using a software I can recommend until you change hard. I've done this too

I am neither able to go to desktop, nor access windows setup. PC freezes before those phases.

 

[Psychic]

Try the first one if not then do this-
Reset your BIOS to default-
Then see in the BIOS if your hard drive is detected and CD ROM aswell-
If its HD that's not detected remove it put in another PC and use scandisk- if CD ROM then just remove the cd rom drive connection and restart-

If still didn't work make a bootable win8 or win 7 CD and try clean install- if there is HDD problem you wouldn't be able to reinstall windows-

Both dvd and HDD are detected and I even tried swapping them but still results were same. Reset my bios to default as well but still same. What is clean install? When I boot from windows dvd, my pc freezes at "setup is starting " screen and that is before I can format any drive.

 

[randaam janmam]

RAM is out of the question-
RAM issue gives a beep at startup-

If the entire RAM card is faulty, then yes.

But if a few modules in his RAM are faulty but the rest of it work, then it will give startup troubles. The OS will load into RAM, but some bytes would be corrupt, leading to his situation.

The "beep" occurs only if that RAM card is not present or cannot be read at all.

 

[JonAsad]

If the entire RAM card is faulty, then yes.

But if a few modules in his RAM are faulty but the rest of it work, then it will give startup troubles. The OS will load into RAM, but some bytes would be corrupt, leading to his situation.

The "beep" occurs only if that RAM card is not present or cannot be read at all.

Ya habibi he is stuck at loading screen that means the ram either partially corrupt has done its job- the delegation of loading windows from hard disk is doing problems-

Both dvd and HDD are detected and I even tried swapping them but still results were same. Reset my bios to default as well but still same. What is clean install? When I boot from windows dvd, my pc freezes at "setup is starting " screen and that is before I can format any drive.

I beleiev your hard drive is SATA-
Load SATA drivers on a flash and give windows installation a try-

 

[Psychic]

Ya habibi he is stuck at loading screen that means the ram either partially corrupt has done its job- the delegation of loading windows from hard disk is doing problems-

What Aether said was some what same. He said that RAM is faulty so can't load heavy windows like windows 8 , so he advised to try install xp or light version of windows 7 .

If the entire RAM card is faulty, then yes.

But if a few modules in his RAM are faulty but the rest of it work, then it will give startup troubles. The OS will load into RAM, but some bytes would be corrupt, leading to his situation.

The "beep" occurs only if that RAM card is not present or cannot be read at all.

Ya habibi he is stuck at loading screen that means the ram either partially corrupt has done its job- the delegation of loading windows from hard disk is doing problems-



I beleiev your hard drive is SATA-
Load SATA drivers on a flash and give windows installation a try-

Yes it is SATA. I have noted that suggestion of your's.

 

[JonAsad]

OK.
Did you try f8 or f9?
If did not work-
Try safe mode with command promt option-
Once you in cmd- run chkdsk- if you begin to see problems getting detected select fix them all automatically- then reboot-