Asus G1s not starting

Ok, I've had my asus g1s for about 8months now with little to no issue.
Last night i shut it down like normal and this morning it wouldn't start.

It goes to a black screen asking whether i want to start normally, start from last known bootup, then 3 different safe mode options....

I've tried start up regularly, but it seems to loop and just merely restarts the computer bringing me to the original screen. I've also tried in booting in safe mode, but it goes to a blue screen for less than a second and restarts.

Is there anything i can do aside from using the system recovery disk? (I don't have it accessible at this moment as i am on campus)

Please let me know if there is any more information that you need.
Thanks in advance

 

Try Last Known Good Configuration, if you didn't do that already.

 

I've seen this a hundred times. Please let me know what your using XP or Vista? Also make sure you try that^^^^ its one of the easiest solutions

 

Are you getting a blue screen or anything?

 

it seems that last night u installed a program affected ur os , I got this problem before but not with Asus g1s, it was with Dell , but the only common thing is that they have vista, my only recommendation to u, since u cant get into the safe mode, boot the windows using the os , and repair the windows, if it didn't help, use the recovery, remember it's the last resort to do<

 

Alright im using vista...
Also, i haven't installed any programs recently, the last one that i remember was about a week ago.


I finally got the recovery disk, i tried to boot from disk, but after it said windows is loading, it restarted and went to a blue screen.

the error code was: STOP: OXOOOOC1F5 (OXOOOOOOOO,OXOOOOOOOO,OXOOOOOOOO,OXOOOOOOOO)


Is there anything i can do from this point?
I'm thinking about sending it to geek squad (My laptop never came with a warranty card but i ordered it from newegg)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you do know of anything, detailed instructions would be preferable.

Once again thanks in advance...

 

do not send it to geek squad. it will come back in a worse condition than you send it in. Find a local repair place in the area and scope it out.

 

A Blue screen when booting from the recovery cd, then it usually means a hardware error. A local pc repair shod does sound like the best bet for you

 

RandomChange: Did you actually try last good known configuration like I and the second poster suggested? Anyway, it's too late now if you tried the recovery CDs.

FusiveResonance: Don't recommend that unless the OP is in the UK, or Italy, or another place where we know ASUS service is poor. Unless that is the case, I recommend the ASUS service point anytime over some local PC repair.

As to hardware error, quite possible. But it can also mean that the Master Boot Record has been messed up and the recovery disks can't sort it out. I suggest using FDISK /MBR and trying again, before writing this off as a hardware fault. Check my Tips and Tricks guide, under "I want to wipe my HDD clean".

I suggest don't remove partitions at first, just do FDISK/MBR.

Make sure to backup your data before you remove any partition from the HDD. You won't get that data back after the partition is gone...

 

Alright I'll give it a try. Also, i did try the last known configuration to no avail (That was before i tried the recovery disk)
Also, how is the asus support in the US? I've heard mixed comments but i want to be sure 100% before i do something about it.

Thanks again

 

Nearly all feedback about ASUS US has been excellent. So no worries there.

Try wiping the master boot record, first, though. It's an easy thing to try and it might save you an RMA.

 

I tried your suggestion, but the disk wasn't reading. It just sat at the loading screen for ages. I've already contacted Asus and requested an RMA, which i wont be able to send out until Friday. Until then, one of my friends said he has a program that he used to wipe his hdd, so that could possibly work as well.

Again thanks for your help, I will keep you updated with what happens if you are interested.

One last question for the time being, is there a way to manually delete the MBR or clear out your HDD through Bios or Easyflash? There probably isn't a way but it can't hurt to ask right?

 

Through BIOS, I'm not aware of any method.

But do you mean that the computer won't boot from the FreeDOS CD? Did you make sure that the ODD was the first device on the boot list, in the BIOS? Or what is the problem exactly due to which you weren't able to FDISK?

Just to clarify, what I am proposing is:
a) Wipe MBR with FreeDOS (FDISK /MBR)
b) Insert recovery disks, and try to recover windows.

 

Yeah i figured that is what you were getting at.
I did set the boot list to have it run off of the ODD first, but it never actually loaded. (IE: i wasn't able to do anything but wait as it attempted to load.)

I do have a friend who apparently has a similar program that he uses for this type of thing, so if that doesn't work i'll be shipping it out tomorrow.

As always, thanks for your help. It is definitely appreciated.

 

Weird. FreeDOS should have booted. Are you sure you wrote it as an ISO image, and not as a data CD? You need to burn the bootable image to the CD.