Cep Cep!! Heeeeeeeeelp! dont know what happened or how it happened, but a couple of days ago my computer kinda went into cardiac arrest , blacked out me completely. Too long a story as to what I tried to fiddle with , rebooting, then restarting , then just shutting the whole thing down when it crashed on me! Well long story short, computer is freezing up on restart, only way Ive accidently stumbled my wayinto getting computer to work is to keep it on active Desktop recovery mode. Is that a bad thing? In a couple of hours computer freezes and I have to start the whole process again, only way it working is keeping it on this active desktop recovery... Whats going on? *whimpersniffle*

Hmm, could be anything my dear thats the only thing. Lets see if we can't narrow it down though 1. You boot the machine up, how many beeps does it make? 2. Does the machine whilst loading up Windows display any warning messages? If so what? 3. If you let the machine boot up as normal at which point does it crash? Does it crash when windows tries to load? Does it crash when you try to log into your machine? Does it crash when the desktop area loads up? Does it crash when you open a particular program? Unfortunately you can't give me a short story hehe I need a full one to diagnose the problem.

Ah cep! ookay lets see if I can answer any of those.. 1> one beep I think 2> warning messages? somthing about authentication. 3> It crashes when it tries to load up AVG ..altho everything works great when I have it on active recovery mode. sigh...who knows..i wish I could just give ya some technical babble..but I can only deal with "I pressed this button " why am I so technically computer challenged? aaaaarrggh. Is it safe to leave it in recovery mode? Im too scared to fiddle with it now that I have it working... er...Im not good at this..sowwy *bows head in shame*

Recovery mode will be ok temporarily it just means that a number of services and such are not allowed to load up. If its crashing because of AVG loading up then I have 2 questions, 1. Do you know if there are any viruses on your machine? 2. Uninstall AVG by going, start -> control panel (maybe under settings) -> add/remove programs Wait for the list to populate then find AVG, select it and hit remove. 3. Then reload you machine without desktop recovery and see if it boots up properly.

Just curious...what is AVG?

Its a free anti-virus programs its pretty good

I use AVG too. I'd also agree that uninstalling it first is a good thing to try. Perhaps it has gone a bit peculiar.

hmmm, I tend to agree . could be old age , maybe its been fiddled with too many times. All I know is that its been doing great with it in active recovery mode. Im not going to jinx that..but will attempt to do as suggested tomorrow morning. and BTW ,Thanks for the advice and help !!!! ( just in case comp crashes on me again, keep Mets CFT at bay , Ill find my way back in! ciao bellisima bambini! )

Glad to know that you can return to us Imi... this place likes all the chaos that you have provided...

Originally posted by imaqtz ( just in case comp crashes on me again, keep Mets CFT at bay , Ill find my way back in! ciao bellisima bambini! )

Blimey.

Dont ya mean "Cor Blimey!" or "Struth!!" or even as we like to say Down Under..... "CRIKEY!!" and moi provide chaos G gir my darll?? Perish da thought! Grin.

Cor Blimey and Struth is said mostly by cockneys not us in the Black Country. In the Walsall borough, people (mostly old people) call other prople (not always) Cock. No idea why?

im having an image of old codgers greeting each other "cock". *shuddergrins*

FUNNY! I just woke up , rolled out of bed, and read that first thing...

When I was starting out to live on my own, my neighbour called me that but she used my name while talking about me to my parents.

Don't really understand what is happening but ........

Right that's it back away from the thread people back away!