need computer help!

[JT1979 10+ year member]

have a HP computer. it is turning itself offf/on. will not let me online of do anything.

turns on boots up, and then does a restart. will do this everytime.

WHAT DO I DO?

and for all the comedians out there, I'm on my neighbors computer.

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[robertspangler 10+ year member]

sounds like you have a virus and that you need to reformat the hard drive.

 

[poundindak69]

what he said^^

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

that is what I figured, but my computer will not let me do ANYTHING.

will I just need to buy a new HD?

or can a computer guy fix this?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Reformat time.

Quit looking at incestuous gay **** and this probably wont happen to you.

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

Reformat time.
Quit looking at incestuous gay **** and this probably wont happen to you.

LOL!

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Unless you are severely retarded or seven years old you should be able to fix this yourself.

It's quite simple.

Insert windows CD into drive, boot from it, follow the on screen instructions to delete all partitions, create new ones, and install windows.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

check the ram, if you have two sticks take one out, reboot, if it still does it try the other

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

have tried. computer comes on and with in 30 sec - 1 min. it shuts down.

faster if you click on ne thing.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

You might have to enter the bios to tell the computer to boot from the CD drive, but i bet it is already set that way unless you, or someone you allowed to, changed the boot order.

I'm not sure about HPs specifically, but i know dells are set to boot from CD in order to make it easier for their hard to understand and incompetent foreign tech support to walk newbs through reinstalling the OS.

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

check the ram, if you have two sticks take one out, reboot, if it still does it try the other

okay, will try, but what does this do?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

okay, will try, but what does this do?

bad ram will cause random reboots, it will tell you which stick is bad and needs to be replaced

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

try pressing f1 and f2 right as the computer powers up...

You shoudl enter the bios, or set-up, and be able to tell the computer to boot from the CD rom before it boots from the HDD.

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

okay, going to try

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i wonder if the HP bios would have a ram check?