Ah, yes if you are overclocking, try disabling that first. :) -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself
Other things to try: shutting down various integrated peripherals in the bios, slow down the cpu to a very slow speed, put your drive in another machine to confirm if its a faulty drive, put a different drive in your machine and install an OS on it to confirm if it's a hardware problem. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 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
