Hello,
I'm having a problem with my home computer. I have tried to repair it myself, and I'm about to give up hope as I'm not sure of the cause of the problem. I'm using a hodgepodge of a machine that is about 5 years old and uses Vista 64x. I've upgraded various parts of the machine. The only remaining stock parts are the motherboard, CPU, and Harddrive.
Basically, there was a small brown out at my residence while the computer was running. Upon a reboot, everything seemed normal for about 5 minutes or so, and then the start menu would no longer respond. I could move the cursor around and click on icons, the icons would highlight as they would with a normal mouse over, but if I tried to open something It would stall and fail to load. The computer never appeared to be "thinking". Any attempts to restart the PC in normal mode end in the same results after the same 5 minutes or so.
The computer works fine in safe mode.
Virus scans with the standard Mcaffee and Avast show the system is negative.
System Restored for a month prior, same results.
Cleaned out the registry, same results.
Turned off all start up items save the core components and disabled my networking manually to prevent intrustion, same results.
I watched the resource monitor and the running applications to see if I could spot the cause, to no avail...
I ran a disk check from the bois last night, left it running over night, and when I went to check it this morning it had booted up in normal mode and soft locked again.
I'm not sure what to do other than salvage what I can, or a fresh install.
I'm having a problem with my home computer. I have tried to repair it myself, and I'm about to give up hope as I'm not sure of the cause of the problem. I'm using a hodgepodge of a machine that is about 5 years old and uses Vista 64x. I've upgraded various parts of the machine. The only remaining stock parts are the motherboard, CPU, and Harddrive.
Basically, there was a small brown out at my residence while the computer was running. Upon a reboot, everything seemed normal for about 5 minutes or so, and then the start menu would no longer respond. I could move the cursor around and click on icons, the icons would highlight as they would with a normal mouse over, but if I tried to open something It would stall and fail to load. The computer never appeared to be "thinking". Any attempts to restart the PC in normal mode end in the same results after the same 5 minutes or so.
The computer works fine in safe mode.
Virus scans with the standard Mcaffee and Avast show the system is negative.
System Restored for a month prior, same results.
Cleaned out the registry, same results.
Turned off all start up items save the core components and disabled my networking manually to prevent intrustion, same results.
I watched the resource monitor and the running applications to see if I could spot the cause, to no avail...
I ran a disk check from the bois last night, left it running over night, and when I went to check it this morning it had booted up in normal mode and soft locked again.
I'm not sure what to do other than salvage what I can, or a fresh install.