I'm not sure, but reinstalling Windows may not erase everything. You should still be backing it up though.

Not that I've backed mine up recently... :oops: I should do that.

 

Hlazler_55
Try the stuff you can do in BIOS first. Then the re-install, and then we go from there. If something fails, then please give any kind of error message or result that happened.

 

Ok So unplug the pc open up the side panel you will see a little battery on the mother board pop it out hold the power button for 30 seconds pop it back in try the pc if that does not work leave it un plugged and the battery out for a few hours

 

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

You can cause serious damage to your computer doing this, so don't. Last resort for much much later.

 

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Re setting cmos can not do damage at all. All it does is re set the motherboard sounds like a hard drive crash or a setting that got changed on the mobo.

 

jwpwns

Or you can short it for a number of different reasons? Not only does playing around with the mother board have any real effect on his issue for what I can tell, but it could severely damage things. Playing around with hardware is the always the last resort.

Any real setting that can effect the post-bootstrapping load that was changed can be edited from within the BIOS, and if all else fails then we can go there. No reason to without the dire need.

 

If this does not work if its only 7 months old it should be under warranty depending upon where u got it.

 

Resetting the CMOS jumper voids the warranty. More reasons to not do this.

 

That is why you un plug it so you do not short it out...... and as for the warranty i would check on that before resetting it. It really sounds like a hard drive crash to me but could be a setting in the mobo that is why i said reset it.

 

Unplugging isn't enough to prevent shorting, which is why I specifically avoided anything to do with opening out the computer. I don't expect people to be conscious of static charge they might be carrying, not any grime or dust in the air in their workspace. Also, on every computer you buy pre-made at a store; the warranty is voided as soon as you open it up; not even a point of discussion. As soon as you screw around inside, the expected lifetime is reduced to 5% if you have no idea what's going on and just following a failure of a Google guide.

I always discharge myself before opening a computer up, and maybe you do too; but leaving these things to chance that everyone else will isn't worth it. We're here to fix problems, not risk the chance of a quick fix for causing more.

In any case, going to leave the checklist I posted earlier here; do as you may, but I'm not going to be able to help to my fullest extend without this thing completed. I recomend doing the BIOS utilities first if you have them, and then doing a windows install after if all else fails. If you have a CD that allows you to update, then files will be preserved; otherwise you ought to set up a Hard Drive clone somewhere.

 

what it could be is a corrupted file within the system folder of it self. However there are infections that prevent windows from ever booting up... Do you have a windows 7 disk? If you have the windows 7 disk boot that up and go to the recovery feature and it should find the problem and fix it. If you dont have the windows disk you're screwed if you want your info back... But if you dont care about the info in your computer then go ahead and reformat it......

I had this problem myself and it was a corrupted file inside the windows system folder and it found it but it took a while to do it.....but its well worth it if you want your info back.....