I have been trying to figure out why my PC, a Hewlett Packard Pavilion m8000 Desktop PC, will not start. When I try to boot it up I watch the screen get to a point where the majority of the screen is black and all that’s on the screen is the name “Microsoft” above a line where a bar has a green rectangle steadily traveling from left to right several times. Usually, during one of its travels across the bar going from left to right, in mid-travel, the green rectangle simply stops and nothing else happens. I have no choice but to try to manually restart my PC and hope that the green rectangle makes it through its many passes across the screeand the Computer starts.
To attempt to repair this problem, I have thus far tried: 1. Partial System Restores, 2. Complete, System Restores, 3. Removed recently installed software (if there was any), and 4. MS-DOS Commands.
When the PC is started I hit the F8 Button repeatedly until I am presented with a popup window that gives me the options of trying:
1. Microsoft's Startup Repair, 2. System Restore, 3. Windows Complete PC Restore, 4. Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, 5. Command Prompt, and 6. Restore Applications.
I'd first chosen Startup Repair, on many occasions. After the program runs I am presented with the following information:
Problem event name: StartupRepairV2 Problem signature 01: ManualReapair Problem signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000 Problem signature 03: 2 Problem signature 04: 65537 Problem signature 05: Unknown Problem signature 06: NoRootCause Problem signature 07: 0 Problem signature 08: 2 Problem signature 09: WrpRepair Problem signature 10: 2 OS Version : 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID : 1033
After the “Startup Repair" Program doesn’t work I check try the "Command Prompt" option.
At this point, an MS-DOS screen appears and I type in “bootrec /fixboot” (minus the quotation marks). After a few seconds the screen states that the program was ran successfully.
After getting the news that “bootrec /fixboot” ran successfully I then type in a second command: “bootrec /fixmbr” (again, minus the quotation marks). Once again, I wait until the DOS Screen informs the user that the command ran and was successful before proceeding.
After running those 2 commands in the MS-DOS screen (1. bootrec /fixboot and 2. bootrec /fixmbr) I close out all of the windows and restart the PC. It usually starts without incident. However, when I attempt to start the same PC the next day the entire ritual must be performed all over again.
My question here is:
“where can people find out what the Microsoft Problem Signatures mean????? These Problem Signatures are used in the "StartupRepairV2" Program and most likely many others. The meanings of what "Problem Signatures mean to, and for, the average PC user should be listed and available for those of us who buy Microsoft's Operating Syatems every other year at thet price of $150 to $300 per upgrade.
Dear John, I would like to sincerely thank you for responding to the Post that I'd put up on this website not 36 hours ago regarding “Where can people find out what the Microsoft Problem Signatures mean?"
Not only did you respond quickly, but you actually knew what you were talking about. I am sincerely appreciative. Thank you so very much.
These Problem Signatures are used in the "StartupRepairV2" Program and most likely many others. The meanings of what "Problem Signatures mean to the average PC user should be listed and available for those of us who buy Microsoft's Operating Systems every other year at the usurious price of $150 to $300 per upgrade.
I sincerely thank you for getting back to me with a response to my question,. I have been having problems with my PC; a Desktop PC with a fairly decent setup for gaming.
When Microsoft had come out with Vista I had run out and upgraded to a new PC, but I didn't build my own system from scratch. Instead, I had gotten a fairly decent Hewlett Packard Entertainment Center Desktop PC that had a Dual-Core AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5200+ that ran at 2.66 GHz without any overclocking.
At that time, Direct X 10 had just come out and there was only one card capable of taking advantagew of the new technology of that time back then; NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 series Graphics Processing Units. I had gotten an NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS with 256 MB of RAM (that cost me in the $500.00 range. In addition, the PC came with a stock 400 Watt Power Supply Unit, so I had to upgrade to more powerful Power Supply Box. The GPU said that it needed a minimum of 500 Watts, (don't quote me on this, but it was in that area) to run, and I ended up buying a 750 Watt Power Supply and installing it in the stock PC and everything had run fine until recently when I started having trouble booting my PC up. I have to turn it on about 5 times before it will finally boot up and work. Even then, the cursor simply stops for no reason while I'm doing something for no reason whatsoever.
My money says that I probably have a need for a replacement Hard Drive. I've been looking at the newer models that have immense amounts of storage space. --I never thought that I would be looking at a 3 TB Hard Drive that was reasonable priced that wasn't too slow running at 7,200 R.P.M.'s per minute. Even so, I'm not just looking into these Hard Drives to fix this PC and continue on with this PC. My plan is to acquire the necessary components to build my own Desktop PC.
Even though there are Hard Drives with immense amounts of Storage Space, I'm seriously considering going with 2 Hard Drives instead of just 1. As they say, "don't put all of your eggs in one basket." After all, I could end up in a similar situation to what I'm dealing with currently; in which case a dual Hard Drive Setup would be perfect. I would be able to run a complete Factory Restore and switch the Master and Slave Drives around and allow the Drive that was in good shape to take over so that my PC would start every time.
My components that I'm leaning toward after a medium amount of research into the latest hardware components are, keeping in mind that I'm looking for the most bang for my buck due to the fact that although I'm not poverty-stricken, I don’t possess a surname such as "Rockefeller."
Please feel free to suggest any alternate components to those which I've read about and am, at the current moment in time, seem to be leaning toward buying with the
intent of building my own PC in either an NVIDIA SLI or ATI Crossfire mode; although that's not a necessity because I don't really see me spending ridiculous amounts of
money of Monitors.
In addition, I'm a woodworker who builds custom guitars. The reason I bring this up is that I would like to install a Sound Card that has the capability to record MIDI
formats from a guitaqr equipped with a "Hexpender Pickup." Or, in the alternative, there are, from what I hear, some decent external cards, or more akin to "pedals," that
plug into the USB Ports. I plug the Guitar intom an input of the MIDI Pedal and the other end of the MIDI external MIDI Recording Device into the USB Port where it records what I play at almost zero-latency.
My Proposed Hardware List for a Built from Scratch so far consists of:
1. CPU = An Intel i7 2600K CPU (Codenamed "Sandy Bridge") CPU: Socket 1155, 3.4 GHz, (3.8 with "Turbo Boost), 95 Watts of Power Consumption, Quad-Core, L3 8MB Cache -$324.99 --OR-- Intel Core i7-2700K Sandy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 95 Watts of Power Consumption, Quad-Core Desktop Processor Integrated Intel HD Graphics -$399.99
2. Motherboard = Possibility 1. Intel BOXDZ68BC LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Possibility 2. Asus P8Z68-V LX Desktop Motherboard
Hard Drive(s) = Undecided between (1) a 2-3 TB Hard Drive, (2) a smaller Solid State Drive just large enough to use for system Backups with a pair of 2 single 1 TB Drives;
or one-1 TB Drive and one 500 GB Drive, or (3) Sticking with 2 1.5 TB Hard Drives and using an external 500 GB Hard Drive which I already own that works great.
3. Possibility A. PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply *A 950 Watt Modular Power Supply Unit with a 135mm ball bearing fan with Speed Control *Single +12V Rail for maximum and efficient power distribution... Fans: 1 x 135mm fan *20+4 Pin Motherboard Connector *CPU Connector: one 8 Pin & one 4+4 Pin CPU connectors *PCI-Express Connectors: 6x 6+2 Pin PCI-E *Platform Compatibility/Expansion Capabilities: 12x SATA and 7x peripheral connectors $149.99 ($20.00 Mail-in Rebate to bring Price down to $129.99) (For $473.98 you can get a Combo Deal that includes this Power Supply Unit and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1x MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card) Details at URL Address: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.849296
4. Possibility B. LEPA B850-MA 850W ATX12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply *ATX12V Modular 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified... Fans: 1 x 135mm fan *Main Connector: 24Pin *+12V Rails: 4 *PCI-Express Connector: 6 x 6+2-Pin *Model #: B850-MA *Item #: N82E16817194093 *Return Policy: Standard Return Policy *Was: $119.99 *Now: $109.99 *Free Shipping from Newegg.com - Computer Parts, Laptops, Electronics, HDTVs, Digital Cameras and More!
5. Possibility C. RAIDMAX RX-1000AE 1000W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
*ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V Modular 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Fans: 1 x 135 mm Fan *Main Connector: 20+4Pin *+12V Rails: 4 *PCI-Express Connector: 6 x 6+2-Pin *Model #: RX-1000AE *Item #: N82E16817152044 *Return Policy: Standard Return Policy *Was: $159.99 *Now: $119.99 $89.99 with Rebate *Free Shipping
There will be a few odds & ends that I'm not going to get into here, such as cooling fans, or if I go with dual Graphics cards that are large I might end up having to
run liquid cooling to keep the system from overheating and burning up. In addition to things such as heatsinks and any potential advantage that I can figure out.
In this forum, I seem to be a newbie. Although I do know what I'm talking about, everyone (nearly) seems to be very much so into computers. --I would love to be able to
use Windows 7 when I upgrade as a Media Extender, as in I could use my Internet Ready television in my Living Room as a 2nd Monitor, but I'm not familiar with that
operating system and I don't know whether or not I can pull something such as that off without running hideous looking HDMI Cables from my PC to my Television or, in the alternative, getting an X-BOX; which would be ashame in light of the fact that I must have a few thousand dollars worth of PC games that I re-play occasionally on the PC
versions of those games are not compatible with other Operating Systems such as X-Box.
That's pretty much it for now. I wanted to thank you for responding to my post so quickly regarding where to find the Problem Codes associated with Windows Vista Startup
Repair when one attempts to fix a problem when their system begins to have difficulty booting up. And I definitely agree that when individuals who are forced to upgrade to
a new operating system every other year or so, they should have the necessary tools at their disposal to remedy problems such as these; or at the very minimum have access
to an explanation as to what the Problem Codes themselves mean.
Microsoft truly sucks with respect to certain issues. I am a legal student/tutor, and have read multiple cases where Microsoft has been sued by the U.S. government on behalf of the U.S. citizens numerous times on Antitrust Violations. A good example is how browsers are (thankfully) free. At one point in time early on in Windows history
there was going to be a charge for browsing the web. I'm not certain how this was going to be achieved. I believe that browsers were going to be included when customer's
bought a new operating system. One company was in the business of selling web browsers for a fee. Microsoft has enough money to drive pretty much anyone out of business. In
this particular instance, Microsoft had begun offering their Web Browser for free included with their Operating System and that put an effective end to that browser upstart
company.
The point is that currently, we will all have to upgrade to Windows 7 because Microsoft has purposely stopped making Service Pack 2 available in full and will continue
to phase out certain files that are essential to Microsoft Vista user's if they want to receive updates that are necessary to keep their systems running smoothly. If your
PC is running good currently and you're running on the Microsoft Vista 32 or 64-bit Operating System, baby it. You may get away with a system restore a couple more times,
but after that you will find that you will no longer be able to obtain the files such as Servicwe Pack 1, Service pack 2, dotnetfx, and other key files which will force you
to upgrade to Windows 7.
To add insult to injury, I was perusing the Internet the other day trying to compare the various version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system when I had come across
an article that states how Microsoft had just unveiled the "Microsoft 8 Operating System” in front of an organization known as “The Mobile World Congress” in Barcelona, Spain last Wednesday, February 29th, 2012.
It seems as though just as people are either getting used to their Operating Systems, mapped out plans that they've put a good deal of effort into to join the majority of other Windows user's and upgrade to Windows 7, Microsoft once again screws us all, because they have no choice, by announcing that they've come out with another Operating System which they'll almost get everyone to eventually have no choice but to upgrade given the time to employ tactics similar to how Vista user's will ultimately have no choice but to upgrade. The truth of Microsoft's Industrial outlook is that although they do sell peripherals, and even a few semi-larger sized ticket items, Microsoft's true fiscal survival depends upon whether or not they can continue to put out new Operating Systems once every two-two-and-one-half years. If Microsoft cannot get computer users to continually upgrade their Operating Systems they will not enjoy their status as one of the Globe's most successful income earners for another decade; their fiscal planning department employees who keep their eye to the future know this all too well and even the most slow individual who owns and pays for their own PC expenses will notice, if they haven't already.
Maybe many more of us should take a quick look at what Apple Computers are all about. In all honesty I have never so much as touched an Apple PC; let alone consider buying one or even look at its Specs. However, if Microsoft keeps up with their current antics I believe that I will owe it to myself to, at minimum, take a good, hard look at what a good Apple Computer’s Personal Computer line has to offer.
With Gasoline near $5.00 a gallon, and Milk not far behind, Microsoft is truly pressing their luck with taking it for granted that people will continue happily handing over billions of dollars because Bill Gates wants to give more money to another charity. I would personally like to be placed on the list of charities where
individuals who had owned all of Microsoft's Operating Systems, up until this point in time, get a new top-of-the-line computer with Media Center Capabilities, Gaming with high frame-rate utilizing the latest PC titles, & the recording of music with zero latency for Guitars via MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface).
:D
Christopher S. Johnson