I've just returned from an excellent vacation to discover, unfortunately, that my computer has somehow borked itself in my absence. A week ago, before I left, it worked fine. No problems to speak of.
Then I come home and try to boot up my computer. It comes up with an error message, in hideous pre-Windows XP-type windows an everything, saying my computer failed to start and it starts looking for problems. It takes about ten minutes doing this and so I (stupidly) shut it off manually and try again. Same result, but this time it asks if I'd like to do a system restore. I tell it go ahead.
Some time passes, it finishes its business and I boot it up again. I try running Team Fortress 2 and the whole thing seizes up; monitor frozen, no response from the mouse, sound cuts off, the works. Unable to do squat, I manually restart it and hop on the internet looking for a fix. After a couple minutes, same thing happens. About a dozen tries later I've gotten no further, haven't had my video game fix, and am quite tired of the whole thing.
Since then, I've read through a whole truckload of threads on the internet complaining of the same issue. Irritatingly they all offer different solutions; I haven't tried anything that requires opening up my machine, mainly because I don't want to (I will if I have to, mind) and because I don't see how hardware could be the issue when it ran like a dream before my vacation. All that I've achieved is to honk myself off and find that it keeps giving a Critical error in the event log from Kernel Power, 41. Googling that has yielded me no further results. I bid you HALP!
Here is TSG SysInfo's output:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G850 @ 2.90GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 8074 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 305142 MB, Free - 88371 MB;
Motherboard: ASRock, H77 Pro4/MVP
Antivirus: avast! Antivirus, Disabled
Then I come home and try to boot up my computer. It comes up with an error message, in hideous pre-Windows XP-type windows an everything, saying my computer failed to start and it starts looking for problems. It takes about ten minutes doing this and so I (stupidly) shut it off manually and try again. Same result, but this time it asks if I'd like to do a system restore. I tell it go ahead.
Some time passes, it finishes its business and I boot it up again. I try running Team Fortress 2 and the whole thing seizes up; monitor frozen, no response from the mouse, sound cuts off, the works. Unable to do squat, I manually restart it and hop on the internet looking for a fix. After a couple minutes, same thing happens. About a dozen tries later I've gotten no further, haven't had my video game fix, and am quite tired of the whole thing.
Since then, I've read through a whole truckload of threads on the internet complaining of the same issue. Irritatingly they all offer different solutions; I haven't tried anything that requires opening up my machine, mainly because I don't want to (I will if I have to, mind) and because I don't see how hardware could be the issue when it ran like a dream before my vacation. All that I've achieved is to honk myself off and find that it keeps giving a Critical error in the event log from Kernel Power, 41. Googling that has yielded me no further results. I bid you HALP!
Here is TSG SysInfo's output:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G850 @ 2.90GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 8074 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 305142 MB, Free - 88371 MB;
Motherboard: ASRock, H77 Pro4/MVP
Antivirus: avast! Antivirus, Disabled