So yesterday evening, I was on my computer when all of the sudden it crashed. No biggie, as my computer is pretty old- 6 year old Sony Vaio with a 7600 GS GFX card, it happens occasionally. When my computer began to reboot however, it was stuck in the cycle, and would get so far as the "Windows" loading screen when I would get a BSOD for about 1/2 a second and the process would repeat. This happened once before I believe and I just turned off my power strip once and the problem was fixed. This time, no good. Now, the day before this happened, I was an idiot and downloaded a rapidshare link, but It passed my virus test (Panda), so probably not related.
The error I received was a simple "no input signal, go to power save." When I tried to boot into safe mode, a whole bunch of files appeared that partition(2)....driver.... I think it may have something to do with a graphics card, as the windows logo on the bootscreen is larger and offcenter/cut off. EVen in safe mode, the computer still is stuck in the cycle. I preferably would like to keep my files as I have tons of purchased iTunes music I would like not to repurchase. (not all of it is backed up, only about 1/2). Unfortunately, I don't know where my windows XP disk is, so I think a restore/repair is out of the question unless I can locate it. But even then, I don't really want to completely reinstall XP, drivers for everything like my printer, scanner, gfx card, etc. I also tried cleaning out my computer with an air duster, as it was louder than usual. This also did not fix the problem.
The error I received was a simple "no input signal, go to power save." When I tried to boot into safe mode, a whole bunch of files appeared that partition(2)....driver.... I think it may have something to do with a graphics card, as the windows logo on the bootscreen is larger and offcenter/cut off. EVen in safe mode, the computer still is stuck in the cycle. I preferably would like to keep my files as I have tons of purchased iTunes music I would like not to repurchase. (not all of it is backed up, only about 1/2). Unfortunately, I don't know where my windows XP disk is, so I think a restore/repair is out of the question unless I can locate it. But even then, I don't really want to completely reinstall XP, drivers for everything like my printer, scanner, gfx card, etc. I also tried cleaning out my computer with an air duster, as it was louder than usual. This also did not fix the problem.