Problem booting up computer

Rivaldo · Post by **Rivaldo** » May 26th, 2005, 5:59 pm

Yesterdat my computer started to crash a number of times in quick succession (just general freezing and nothing moving/working). I did a SYSTEM RESTORE to about a week back and then it stopped crashing, however today the computer crashed while I was playing an online game (world of warcraft). I rebooted and the computer crashed again while logging in to my account, I rebooted again after this and the computer spent around 10 minutes on a page with white writing that has a PCI Device list. After this another screen comes up and says this: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair. I am pretty sure that I did not recieve a 'setup cd-rom' with the computer, which is relatively new (3.4 ghz processor speed, 512mb ram etc etc). If anyone has any ideas on what could be the cause of the problem, or how to fix it I'd be very grateful for your comments

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » May 26th, 2005, 6:38 pm

Check the owners manual, you may have a hard drive partition that will alow you to do a restore. Some computer manufactures will put everything you need to restore you're computer on you're hard drive. I personally don't care for that method, I would rather have the disks

Rivaldo · Post by **Rivaldo** » May 27th, 2005, 7:31 pm

thanks for the fast reply but yea have to buy an advant cd restore and if not get a new hard disk

simon · Post by **simon** » June 6th, 2005, 11:48 am

It is easier to have those cds and build the system yourself.