Thanks David. I'll see how I go with those. On 24 February 2011 11:23, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> All those symptoms sound like hardware. I’d look at heating first, ram, > hdd, followed by motherboard. > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Burstin > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:09 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself > > > > Hi all, > > > > Really hoping someone has some good advice on this: > > > > Last night I was working on a VM on my machine which has a Windows 7 (SP1) > host running on an SSD. Got a blue screen. > > > > Rebooted and it goes to the screen asking if I want a normal start or safe > mode. *Just pressing the arrow key to choose a selection causes it to > reboot* - so can't boot in normal or safe mode. > > > > So I thought I'd reboot from the Windows 7 DVD. Boots.. says "loading > files" and completes... gets to the splash screen and hangs. > > > > QUESTION: > > Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this machine to reboot? I don't > mind reinstalling Windows as long as I can get to the files on the machine. > I have backups but that will be a painful road as I still need a machine to > be in a working state so that I can restore the backup. > > > > Cheers > > Dave >
