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computer restarts everytime i turn it on

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by haleanana

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hi guys,i recently encountered a problem with my computer.its a dual bios amd64 3200+.The problem with it is that everytime i turn it on it restarts and it does this thing over and over again.it doesnt even reach the profile selection screen.it never use to be as bad as this.Before it just freezes now and then and blue screen appears saying Stop:0x0000009c
what can i do to fix this?is there anyway i can overhaul the system without deleting the operationg system since i have lost my windows xp cd wen we moved out?

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by haleanana

by the way, i think the problem myt be with my newly installed graphics card which is geforce 6200LE or rome total war game.My brother uses my computer for games and i think he myt have fried my grphics card since i dont have a fan for that bit.Or rome total war cd was corrupted or sumthing since i bought it second hand.
Any thoughts or help will be appreciated.

by oh smeg

And test your Hardware for problems, it's available from here

http://tinyurl.com/3jnpy

But if the hardware passes you really need to reinstall the OS. Games do corrupt Windows fairly quickly particularly if they are installed & removed often.

Col

by zlitocook

Can you boot in to safe mode (press the F8 key as it boots)? If so you can remove drivers, Click the Start button, right-click My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
2. Under System Failure, view the Automatically restart check box. If the Automatically restart check box is selected, Windows automatically restarts if the computer stops unexpectedly.
This will let it boot up so you can check logs and the event viewer to see if it tells you what is causing the problem. Look to this from MS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320299.
If it is the video card do you have another to try?

by haleanana

yeah i tried the safe mode thing but it still restarts ryt afta.I cant access my computer at all.im using my dads laptop atm.yeah i have the older graphics card which is the ati radeon 9600 i think.

by zlitocook

Did not help then do the basics. Test the power supply, there are vary inexpensive testers ten or fifteen dollars that you can buy to test the power supply. Or buy a cheap power supply to see if that solves your problem.
If you think you can open and remove things inside your computer you can try removing a memory stick and disconnecting components like the CD drive and rebooting. But if you do not know what you are doing you could kill your mother board. So if you don?t feel that you can do this take it to a repair shop.
There is allot of thing to check and start with the simple stuff.

by haleanana

yeah thx for that i found out it was my hdd that was stuffed so thx for all ur help guys.appreciated it.

by javieduardo

hey, i have the same problem but idk what hdd is, think u can help me :D>?

by shhite

That is abbreviation for hard drive.

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