PC HELP

[Grand Admiral Martin]

Hey I am wondering if anyone here can help me with this problem.

I was on my PC last night when my girlfriend got mad and pulled the internet/phoneline out, but while I was fixing that she just pulled the powercord out. I have done that before and never really had a problem but this time when I turned the PC this morning I had to choose noraml, safe mode, best last config, etc but when I choose one, anyone, of them it gets to the Windows loading screen then it restarts again, and again and again. The PC just keep restarting at that same point everytime.

Anyone know what I need to fix?

[AncientAnubis]

This happened to me a while back, but it was a screwed BIOS.

[Nigatsu_Aka]

Check the the cord wich goes to the supply and those 3 pins that hold the supply cord. If it was pulled brutally, the contact between those 3 pins of the supply and the socket of the cord might have weakened. If it is an imperfect contact between one pin and the corespondent lamella from the cords socket, then your computer will restart everytime when windows loads because it doesn`t get the necesary power. Bend one of the pins (but very gently) so that the cord will stay fixed. This should work if your problem is a power failure. If not, then it is software.

[Spacey]

This happened to me too. My conditions was that I was running user restore and I kicked the power bar off.

The only thing I could do was reinstall everything. I heard from a friend in a computing university program that others things could have been tried first, before the re-installation of windows.

For me it was nothing to do with hardware. If it is BIOS you can try installing your BIOS to CD, floppy and booting/installing/overwriting/repairing off of that.

I think you are in university? I would say hit up the computer club (or student run computing organization asking for help)... they probably will help you to help and not charge you to fix it like a business would.

My 2 pence.

"women...can't live with em', and you can kill em" - Albert Gibson, character played by Tom Arnold in True Lies

[Grand Admiral Martin]

I tried changing the plug but still the same problem.

I hit system recovery F10 on the startup screen but I got this message:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\sstem32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

I'll just have to get a friend to take a look at it like you suggested.

[Spacey]

here's something:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixthepro ... haldll.htm

[generaloneill]

put youre system installation CD on the CD-drive, then restart youre pc then press F2 go to booting sequence and make the CD-ROM youre primary. thats it and follow the steps, repair or install a fresh system. after youre done go back to the booting sequence and put it back to its default.