Hey guys,
My computer is on the fritz again. It runs windows XP, the stats are unimportant. I recently got a USB hub and with the extra slots I decided to install the infrared receiver for my asus DH media remote. Anyway all was going just fine, I pop the installation CD in and it takes ages for it to read. The CD drive is connected via USB I believe, and i’m guessing that’s the cause of its crappy performance (i’ve had the same slow and errorful reading problems when trying to transfer songs from a CD). I waited while it did its thing (by now it hadnt even autorun yet, I had just opened up my computer and double clicked the CD/dvd drive and it was trying to load that) and sometime through it the computer decides to restart itself. I shrugged it off and kept waiting, and it eventually brought itself to a blank black screen. I took the CD out and the screen remained. Being the lazy guy that I am, I held the power button down and cut the power (lecture me after this is fixed; I’m assuming the problem had occured beforehand as it chose to reboot itself without warning).
Booting it back up, it gave me the screen which allows you to boot in safe mode, last known configuration, start windows normally, etc. No matter which I select, it restarts the cycle and brings me back to that screen. When I select the safe mode ones, it fills my screen with all this .sys hoobla and then restarts itself much the same.
I’m not given the option to choose the boot device, so I’m unable to do a windows repair or anything with the CD. I cant get in through safemode, or command prompt. I’ve tried rebooting with the USB devices removed. I am only given the option to enter my bios settings, which gave me (to what I know) a bunch of unhelpful and unrelated options.
I know the question is vague and the problems could be broad, but any help would be appreciated.
thanks! :crying:
