Posted: 1/28/2010 8:07:23 AM EDT
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I'm prepared to get flamed.
Yesterday surfing Arfcom on my Asus G17 laptop. Screen goes blue and some text about memmory failure comes up. Screen goes black comp turns off. I try to reboot into safe mode- No Dice Restart again try to repair Windows startup- No dice It'll boot up thru BIOS and start the Windows but the login screen never appears. Screen goes black and wireless mouse works, but it just never brings up Windows Login Screen Windows 7 64 Home Premium. Everything is backed up except for my ITunes and thats what I'm trying to salvage. |
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Alright Alright the flaming can continue as scheduled, but anyone have a clue whether this might be Virus or Hard drive failure? Closest PC guy is about 90 min in either direction. From what you posted, it sounds like either bad memory or a bad memory slot. Does it show all of your memory in BIOS? Did you try what was suggested a post or 2 above? |
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I'm prepared to get flamed. Yesterday surfing Arfcom on my Asus G17 laptop. Screen goes blue and some text about memmory failure comes up. Screen goes black comp turns off. I try to reboot into safe mode- No Dice Restart again try to repair Windows startup- No dice It'll boot up thru BIOS and start the Windows but the login screen never appears. Screen goes black and wireless mouse works, but it just never brings up Windows Login Screen Windows 7 64 Home Premium. Everything is backed up except for my ITunes and thats what I'm trying to salvage. Never mind... missed the part where you mentioned Safe Mode. Yup... hardware issue. Swap memory around or try new memory. |
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Alright Alright the flaming can continue as scheduled, but anyone have a clue whether this might be Virus or Hard drive failure? Closest PC guy is about 90 min in either direction. The blue screen, is usually hardware failure. no, that's a standard feature with Windows |
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Roommate went up and checked, and its showing 6144MB of Available Memory It can show the memory in the BIOS but still not actually be able to use it. Can he boot it to a bootable CD and have it boot all the way up? Possible that Windows has become corrupted I guess. Lots of times when you've got bad RAM, you can't even get to the BIOS... just beeps when you turn it on. |
My guess is a boot sector virus.... not a good thing. You may be able to retrieve data by removing the disc and running it as a slave disc in another computer or putting it into an external HD enclosure and accessing it that way. The only way I know to fix a boot sector virus is to zero the drive and reformat. 
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We tried booting from the recovery disk last night. It boots up to a black screen with the cursor, and will sit like that indefinetly. I'm not sure how to pull the memory, but he should he is a comp science major. Hmmm... Many times, the memory is located beneath a "trap door" in the bottom of the laptop. If you can get the RAM out and are able to find similar memory to test with –– if you discover that it still won't boot, you may have a motherboard issue. |
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My guess is a boot sector virus.... not a good thing. You may be able to retrieve data by removing the disc and running it as a slave disc in another computer or putting it into an external HD enclosure and accessing it that way. The only way I know to fix a boot sector virus is to zero the drive and reformat. We've been hit HARD lately by malware and viruses. Certainly wouldn't surprize me. I'm not as in-the-loop regarding that stuff as I used to be (network admin), but our PC support guy has been battling this crap non-stop these days (and we used to rarely have issues with this crap). |
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Came home, now the stupid thing tries to boot and then flashed the blue screen again and restarts itself trying to boot. I think I'll just scrap trying to fix it for now, pull the drive and then try to access it thru a external HD case when I go home in March. FUCK
This is the 2nd Fucking Laptop in 4 Years I have managed to have shit out on me. Dell XPS and now this fucking thing FUCK FUCK FUCK! |
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Came home, now the stupid thing tries to boot and then flashed the blue screen again and restarts itself trying to boot. I think I'll just scrap trying to fix it for now, pull the drive and then try to access it thru a external HD case when I go home in March. FUCK This is the 2nd Fucking Laptop in 4 Years I have managed to have shit out on me. Dell XPS and now this fucking thing FUCK FUCK FUCK! Sounds like some of the viruses we've been hit with lately. Continuous boot loop. Since you can't get it into Safe Mode, you're best best bet at this point is to do like the above poster suggested. Slave the HDD to get data off that you might need (maybe scan it with some anti-virus software while it's slaved), and then reload the OS with a complete reformat of the drive. At least that's what I'd do. |