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re: Windows/startup issue Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:43 am Posted by John Liebson (629 messages posted) Have you tried starting the machine in Safe Mode? I don't know if it will start, but pressing F8 continually as soon as the boot process begins would be worth trying. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/323ef48f-7b93-4079-a48a-5c58eec904a11033.mspx At the bottom of that page is a link to diagnostic tools to use if the computer will start in Safe Mode. On Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:04 am, Cody wrote: >ok so i was changing the celling fan in my room and my computer was on and i accidentally >blew the fuse and my computer died and now when i try to start it up it gets to the >part where it says microsoft corporation with the Green lil bar thing thats loading >CPL and it freezes and then goes back and freezes and keeps loading and then juust >keeps doing this > > >help? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows/startup issue Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:54 am Posted by Cody (3 messages posted) yes ive tried to start in safe mode but ill try and and do the f8 thing thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows/startup issue Monday, July 14, 2008 at 12:07 pm Posted by Cody (3 messages posted) ok when i try to start it in safe mode it starts loading files and once it gets to --- Loaded: \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys --- it freezes [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows/startup issue Monday, July 14, 2008 at 12:36 pm Posted by John Liebson (629 messages posted) Standard advice: When confronted with an error message, use Google (or whatever your religion is...) to search for it. I did this with "Loaded: \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys" [no quotation marks, of course], which turned up a number of possible sources of assistance. On Monday, July 14, 2008 at 12:07 pm, Cody wrote: >ok when i try to start it in safe mode it starts loading files and once it gets to >--- Loaded: \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys --- >it freezes [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows/startup issue Monday, July 14, 2008 at 4:51 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) You could very well have damaged either the power supply or the motherboard. It doesn't take much of a power surge. If piddling with the system and other files doesn't get you going, I would look at that. Also I'm not just talking about plugging in a power supply test module. It could have popped a capacitor or a diode in the power regulation portion of the MoBo. Try hitting the reset about 2 seconds into the boot-up. I have an old box I still use, but because it has a leaky capacitor onboard I have to wait for a couple of seconds for the drives to start to spin up then reboot. It can't take the initial load of the entire system. The boot on this one doesn't fail till it gets finished with the scroll. On the other hand if I do it as described it starts every time like a Timex. That is an annoyance I am willing to live with. The worst this it could cause is some noise on the motherboard. I would really like to hear any update info you have to share. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum