I have a Dell Inspirion 2350 that my neice used for about a year. When she got a new one and I brought this one home, it was loaded with spyware and adware shit or whatever. Anyway, after getting a thousand popups I tried to remove some of the programs and it was working for a little while but now when turned on it just keeps trying to boot itself up over and over. I may have screwed something up as I'm no expert for sure. Anybody wanna help and make a few bucks?

I tried this once a while back with my Vaio and got good results.

I live about a half mile from campus.

10/13/2008 2:16:46 PM

Do you have a recovery CD? I recommend some R&R.

10/13/2008 2:33:59 PM

Unfortunately, I don't have a recovery disc.

Dammit!

10/13/2008 2:39:22 PM

burn all your documents and program settings on a cd, then reformat and reinstall windows.

10/13/2008 2:40:29 PM

^ditto. save yourself the grief and time.

10/13/2008 3:21:38 PM

I can't get to that point as it just keeps trying to boot up over and over. There's nothing on there I need to save though so that's not a concern.

10/13/2008 3:49:49 PM

you should burn an ubuntu livecd, boot from that, copy files, reformat. . .

10/13/2008 4:09:51 PM

Sounds like a hardware issue, i had a very similar problem with a computer, it wouldn't always happen, but most of the time it would get into a loop and never boot up, I kept trying over and over again and it eventually might come up (sometimes I’d let it sit for a while, try again, try a few times in a row, etc). It ended up being a bad ram chip. If you have two ram chips, try removing one, and if that doesn't work swap out the one you removed for the one that was left. If it still doesn't work, I'm out of ideas, but I still think it's hardware related.

10/13/2008 4:19:13 PM

You can order replacement recovery discs from Dell for probably $10-$15. Do that.

10/13/2008 5:04:40 PM

Yeah it's probably the RAM, I'm assuming you're not overclocking anything.

Try what he said^ or run MEMTEST. Check the memory, if all sticks are good, reinstall Windows. Hopefully its nothing worse than that.

10/13/2008 8:00:37 PM

agreed, might also try some form of check disk to test the hd for bad clusters. its not that hard but if you want help i am willing to help.

10/14/2008 1:59:25 AM

if fuzion brings his gf you should let him fix it

10/14/2008 2:00:58 AM

Or you could just say "fuck it" and smash it Office Space style...

10/14/2008 3:55:25 AM

i'll fix it for $100.

10/14/2008 8:14:59 AM

you guys are making this shit entirely too fucking complicated.

find a copy of whatever version of windows it has on it (or, order the CD's from Dell for $10-15) and use them.. no need for chkdisk and memtest and all this other shit first when a clean install of windows will likely fix the problem.

10/14/2008 8:32:53 AM

Sent you a PM on this

10/14/2008 8:58:04 AM

i agree with ScHpEnXeL, i only recommend swapping/testing the RAM if you still experience random reboots after a fresh reformat and reinstallation of XP.


drunknloaded, thats why everybody lets me tinker with their computers or buy stuff from me....theyre like if this guy has that hot of a gf, he cant be too bad. She even mentioned interest in helping me with computers and learning how to fix them---strangely attractive and extremely helpful!

10/14/2008 9:03:58 AM

Quote :

"you should burn an ubuntu livecd, boot from that, copy files, reformat. . ."

What part of

Quote :

"I'm no expert for sure."

were you missing?

10/14/2008 1:45:37 PM