My computer has had the tendency to freeze up for the past 2 weeks, and now it has completly stopped. It froze today, and like ussually, I hold the powerbutton until it turns off, then restart. Whenever I restarted it, it went to the Windows loading screen, then froze on a black screen. I tried restarting in last know good settings, and in all safe modes, but still nothing.... has anyone have any advise on how to fix this?

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Intel E4500 Dual Core ~2.2ghz
Radeon 2400PRO ~525Mhz w/ 512mb
Triboot Xp, Vista, and Ubuntu WD 250g

Thats another problem...whenever I boot up, it doesn't ask me to boot from CD like most computers, it goes to the "Would you like to boot in safe mode" screen, and I don't have an option to boot from cd... Does the computer care if it is the Windows copy you installed? I have half a dozen copies, and I can't remeber which one I used on this machine...

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Intel E4500 Dual Core ~2.2ghz
Radeon 2400PRO ~525Mhz w/ 512mb
Triboot Xp, Vista, and Ubuntu WD 250g

Hmm... have you set the CD Rom higher in the boot device list than that Hard Drive? If not, you won't be able to boot from CD. Some modern bioses let you press a key [usually esc] for a menu of boot devices.

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Thanks. I got it to boot to the CD, but I forget which Windows CD I used to install...Does it matter? They are all copies of Windows Corp btw
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tried these, still no luck....

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Intel E4500 Dual Core ~2.2ghz
Radeon 2400PRO ~525Mhz w/ 512mb
Triboot Xp, Vista, and Ubuntu WD 250g

If its a higher version, you can simply upgrade the existing OS version.

U may need a new hard drive my computers hard drive died and i needed a new one because the computer wouldn't boot

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nah, I went ahead and wiped the drive already...Thanks for the help, but I was fighting a losing battle. I'm just wondering why it did this...The drive works perfectly, and the computer is practically new, besides the vid card.

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Intel E4500 Dual Core ~2.2ghz
Radeon 2400PRO ~525Mhz w/ 512mb
Triboot Xp, Vista, and Ubuntu WD 250g

You may have a bad sector on the drive and until something tries to actually write to this one sector you would have no problems. Then one day....it tries to access that sector and ....boom. Happens all the time.

Run a scandisk (which scans the local disk drive for hardware errors) as well as a chkdisk /p (to find any errors) and chkdsk /r to repair.

Hi,

I think there is some bad sector in your hard disk. You can use this hard disk just for few days, because after some time your hard disk will totally damage and in result you will lost your data, so it is better to change your hard disk.

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