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Really odd computer issue!

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ZoomBoy

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So I've been having this issue on the rig I built within the past little bit where upon boot, after the scrolling loading XP screen - my computer would just halt on a black screen as if it were on but there's no activity, no mouse cursor - nothing. On reboot it's a crap shoot as to whether it would restart again and usually the only way to get back into Windows is via Safe Mode or doing a Repair Install.

So my way around this was to just never shut my computer down until I got around to an answer.

Fast forward to today, I just re-formatted my girlfriends computer and now hers is doing the same thing which leads me to believe its a software problem. Do you think it could be the OS since we're using the *ahem* same copy? Also we both have Office 2007 installed, that's about all that our computers share software wise.

Any words of wisdom? I'd like to get this problem solved as she likes to use her computer daily and doesn't have standby.
 
ok, let´s asume its a software problem, so what other programs have u installed in those computers?
 
Symantec Corporate AV, WinRAR, Post It Notes, Nero.

The thing is, Office is the only "new" software installation - everything else I have been running way before I had issues.
 
The thing is, a repair install fixes the issue for a bit usually. Would a bad install only crop up after a few weeks? Wouldn't it be upon next reboot?
 
ZoomBoy said:
Symantec Corporate AV,.
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Symantec AV? :(
eewww, Try uninstalling that AV and see what happens.
I strongly recommend to you to get yourself another AV, one that actually works :p and it´s not a resource hog, try NOD32 or AVG.
 
The Corp edition of the AV software is very lightweight though. I'll give AVG a try though I've liked it in the past.

Right now I'm uninstalling Office 2k7 from her computer to see if that fixes anything, then I'm going to go backwards uninstalling until it boots fine and we'll see where that takes us.
 
what u can do is reinstall windoze from scratch, make a restore point and then begin to install all the applications: first the updated device drivers, then your AV, then your internet appz and so forth. after each install reboot and see what happens, with system restore enable u would always be able load a good working config.
 
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