Hi - I had a prblem solved VERY quickly by Geekgirl last night so I gonna see if anyone can help me with a very annoying problem I've had for a long time on this site.

1,) When I start up my pc (in the morning usually) the whole system will freeze/jam/crash at the Windows loading screen. The loading bar will just stop and the everything becomes unresponsive.

2,) I will then restart the PC via the restart button on the tower as it's the only thing that will work. This process will repeat itself over and over (me booting up the pc / it freezing / me restarting) until eventually after more than 10 restarts it will get through.

3,) After I have gotten through and windows has loaded correctly I can restart my pc and it will yet again load correctly. It only seems to get trapped in this freeze loop if I turn it off for a long period such as overnight.

4,) This problem, I have had for about a year now.

5,) I will also get irregular freezing of the pc which are much rarer.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console

you may of installed a bad drive or picked up a viruse,have you tried a a system restore to b4 this freezing started?


Sounds like there might be a problem with the MBR (Master Boot Record) it is absolutely the first thing that processes when a computer is turned on, and if there is an error when booting up, a lot of the times you have a bad sector somewhere. Trying finding a relatively new harddrive and swap them out temp. If that solves the problem then you know your hard drive has crashed. Another thing that may have happened is that you have some how got a virus, try to boot up in safe mode then run an anti-virus software and see if that catches it.

Could be a problem with device drivers , hardware or software . This problem can be solved by uninstalling new softwares, updating device drivers and making minor configuration changes

Hi - Thanks for the advice....

I am unable to go back to a restore point however as I have never made one, also the problem has been happening for over a year now. I have re formatted the PC 3 times in this period but everytime the same thing happens. I w ish I had a new drive to replace it with but I dont - If I knew it was the HD Id buy one asap but on student money it would be hard to purchase if it turned out not to be that.

Im not really great on a computer so Im not sure how to do some of the things you mentioned. I hope my description above can help in narrowing it down though.

Cheers

You should be able to create a restore point.plus maybe you need more RAM fitted?

But wouldnt my PC have had problems before due to lack of RAM? Ive had this one about 2 years. I'd hope it was the HD so I can replace it.

No,not realy.When you start installing more and more software/programms each uses RAM and adding some more helps the pc a lot.You would find you could open a lot more web pages/play music/etc etc all at the same time and your CPU would not be running at full pelt.