Hi guys, im having a total headache with this one on my wifes PC.
She is running windows 7, and it has been running perfectly until last night when the kid switched her pc off via the power button. Not sure if this is relevant but she had a 3d game runnign at the time also.
Since this, the PC will not boot up. It gets to the "windows is loading" screen, and then restarts at the point where it would usually go to desktop.
I tried to start in safe mode, but again the PC reboots itself after its loaded the windows files, where it would usually go to desktop.
Tried startup repair, again reboots after windows is loading files.
I then banged a windows disk in and booted from CD. It goes through loading all the windows files, then poof... a blue screen of death.
It had some built in HP checker...Memory test came ok, processor test ok, but hard drive didnt.
Has the hard drive been destroyed when the kiddo switched it off?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Stu
She is running windows 7, and it has been running perfectly until last night when the kid switched her pc off via the power button. Not sure if this is relevant but she had a 3d game runnign at the time also.
Since this, the PC will not boot up. It gets to the "windows is loading" screen, and then restarts at the point where it would usually go to desktop.
I tried to start in safe mode, but again the PC reboots itself after its loaded the windows files, where it would usually go to desktop.
Tried startup repair, again reboots after windows is loading files.
I then banged a windows disk in and booted from CD. It goes through loading all the windows files, then poof... a blue screen of death.
It had some built in HP checker...Memory test came ok, processor test ok, but hard drive didnt.
Has the hard drive been destroyed when the kiddo switched it off?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Stu