Help me please!

[ChibChombo]

Hello, I'm having a huge problem. Last night I was working fine on my comp, and now this morning when I try turning it on, it stops at the "Microsoft Windows XP" loading screen and then a blue screen comes up saying there was a problem, I can't read it cus it dissapears right away, and my computer restarts. But I can't get it to get past the screen... Please help me, I've tried turning it off etc but keeps doing it.

I read the message, it said "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" is the error. I can't even start it on safe mode.

 

[mBernhardt]

Can you boot from "Last Known Good Configuration" ?

 

[ChibChombo]

Nothing is working, not even safe mode or last good known configuration.

 

[bmxfreakrider]

sounds like a hardware fail....it says windows has shut down to protect your computer from hardware damage(or somehting like that). the most common cause of this is (1) a dying processor, this can be a warning to a system that is dying, or is already dead (2) dying ram/dead ram.. is there a temp monitor in your bios for your processor? and 2 when the pc posts, is it reporting the correct amount of ram?

EDIT: it could also be a undersupplied mobo(as in ur ps is too weak or is dying)

also, can you boot from the xp disk?

 

[ChibChombo]

Let me try it

 

[ChibChombo]

So far nothing worked, I put the windows CD in and its loading files now, but I don't want to format it. Also, another error was some Volume thing... wtf It was perfect last night

 

[bmxfreakrider]

na its not for format, its the repair option. i forget, i had this prob about 2 months ago, and did a repair install or something, and replaced my ram, and it fixed it...now the volume thing...hmm..bad hdd? how old is ur system? was it a premade system or did u have it custom..also do you know what hard drive you have? just need to know some stuff about your system. but so far sounds like a hardware fail, maybe hdd, but if its running, then it aint processor, but still a pocibility of the ram

 

[ChibChombo]

How do I do the repair thing? Nothing is showing up ><

I used CD, and pressed Boot from CD, now it says "Loading windows" in a blue screen, but it froze... Its not working

 

[bmxfreakrider]

brb, let me pop my disk in

 

[bmxfreakrider]

k when it searches for previous versions of windows, ittl show the one already installedthen in the top left it will say to repair this installation, press r.... this screen first pops up after you press f8(accept the liscense aggrement)