Hello,
I was minding my own business, playing Half-Life 2, when all of a sudden my computer began acting strangely. My CPU usage was abnormally high, and I hadn’t rebooted in awhile, so I decided just to reboot and see if it changed anything. Well, my computer refuses to boot up now. Here’s what I know–
It can get to the “Windows XP” screen with the little bar moving across, but then it hangs, shows a blue screen for a millisecond, and reboots
I cannot boot into safe mode (any flavor). It gets to MUP.SYS, hangs, and reboots.
I have ran SeaTools (Hard Drive diagnostic utility for DOS) and MemTest86 (Memory diagnostic utility for DOS) with no errors reported whatsoever.
I have tried re-installing Windows XP, but whichever choice I choose ends up hanging on the “checking your disk” part. I’ve let it run for 20+ minutes with no changes.
The only thing that I can think of is that my hard drive is malfunctioning in some way, but when I ran SeaTools it offered nothing in the way of error messages.
Here are my specs, if it helps anyone:
Athlon AMD 64×2 4800+ Dual-core Processor
2 GB Patriot DDR2 800 Dual-channel RAM
WinFast 7900GT 256MB PCI-16x Graphics Card
SeaGate 7200RPM 320 GB SATA hard drive
DVD/CD reader/burner (generic)
Gigabyte S-Series Motherboard
Thanks in advance for any help provided. I am a computer science student, and so my computer is very important to me (both for work and play).
-Robert Darchuk