Computer won't load, help me solve this problem :(

[Alienwho]

Ok this is crazy, please help me.

It started yesterday, I left my comp on and went out for a couple hours, when I got back it was frozen on the first bios screen(shows energy star in the top right corner). I get a little nervous, reboot and it loads into windows fine (XP)

So I open up photoshop and notice that it opened up extremely slow, I check my ram and it only detected 256 instead of 512, so I reboot and now it only detected 32MB of ram. So shutdown pull out my ram, blow em off a little and put em back in and turn it on and the bios detects it fine, but after it shows the "loading windows xp" screen I get that blue error that says something like "windows will be shutdown to prevent damage to the computer (or whatever it says"

So I reboot again and again keep getting that error. Then I disable "virus guardian" in the bios and try to boot up that way but it then freezes and says "virus guardian is disabled, press space to enable or g to disable" and I press stuff and nothing works, I am totally frozen

help me please

 

[jsmckenna45431]

First, unplug the power chord and push your power on button to clear the residual power from the board. Then, clear your CMOS and reboot. Enter the BIOS and reset all of your settings. Let us know how it goes from there.


Jeff

 

[Alienwho]

I have an AD11 mobo, and it says to clear the CMOS I just have to put the jumper on it and boot up, and I tried that and I get no change when I turn it back on.

 

[Alienwho]

this is the motherboard I have. Is this a problem with my motherboard? When I would try to load up XP and it would give me that blue screen, I also tried to boot in safe mode but that wouldn't work either, it just had a bunch of things scroll in dos and then would just hang. Man this totally sucks cause I have no idea what the problem is, at first I thought it was windows but now I think it's the motherboard.

Thank you I really appreciate any help.

 

[Alienwho]

ok update, I was able to clear the cmos, but still everytime I try to get into windows, I get this error right after the "loading windows" screen.

Stop: c0000218 {registry file failure}
the registry cannot load the hive (file):
\systemroot\system32\config\software
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete

[automatically reboots]

I'm on windows XP.