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March 4, 2008 at 05:49 PM
lovin3cats

Computer freezing at windows startup screen

by lovin3cats . Updated 18 years, 4 months ago

Hi everyone and tysm for reading in advance:)

I have a few year old Dell Dimension 4700 Desktop computer. To start off, I know NOTHING about computers..I’m a nurse, save lives yes? Know what a hard drive even looks like, no. LOL

I keep my computer on daily. I woke up this morning and my mouse cursor(plugged into a usb port and is also a dell mouse)was just frozen on the screen. I restarted a few times, still nothing. After a few restarts, the computer just stopped loading at the windows startup screen, it just freezes up totally.

I did try to read up on some things before I wrote here. I went into safe mode and did a disk defrag, no help. Disk cleanup, no help. Opened up my computer and just cleaned the whole thing inside (which is how I found this site, needed I had no idea how to do that; The fan was FULL of dust, but now clean) Restarted again..still freezing. I’m not sure what steps to take next. I’ll give you all the information I can find that I see listed on it (I’m on my laptop right now). If you need any other information please let me know..and errr…please tell me how to obtain it also=/

Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2
Dell Dimension 4700
Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2.99 GHz, 1.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

I thank you soooo so much for your help.

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