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    Windows Loading Problem on HEL80

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by csinth, Aug 18, 2006.

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    I was playing Counter Strike: Source when suddenly the game froze, and it was stuck. CTRL>ALT>Delete wouldn't work, and it would just sit there with a looping sound. So I manually shut the computer down. When I started it back up, the computer showed a message along the lines of, "Couldn't load windows, sorry for inconvience". I've chosen all the options possible and nothing will work. When the windows loading screen comes up (with the little blue bar going across the screen), it goes to a blue screen and quickly flicks off and restarts. Any ideas?
     
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    It won't even start in safe mode? You might be looking at a reinstall. Sounds like a corrupt drive or something, somehow. Done anything funky to it recently? Shut it down hard more than just that one time with CS:S?
     
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    I recently installed CS:S and had to shut down a few times because it froze from Comodo Firewall.
     
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    That'll cause bad sectors, and problems like you're seeing. See if you can boot from a Windows install disk and get to a Repair console and do a chkdsk. That may fix things enough for you to boot.
     
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    Alright thanks. I'll try that.
     
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    Wow thank you so much! that worked! Now can I just ask what can I do to prevent this in the future? Even after chkdsk is there still an error on the hd?
     
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