Computer Trouble

[Scott]

Something is wrong with my computer. When I log onto my account I can see my desktop icons and the bar at the bottom of the screen but they are only there for ten seconds then they disappear? So to get online I have to use ctrl-Alt-Delete. Also I can't open My Documents. I have tried creating another account and it has the same problems. The computer has been like this since christmas. Anyone know what is wrong?

[LiNuX]

most likely your ram is failing, it's not able to run the programs and features - if you have more than one ram card you could take one out to see whose fault it is.

[Scott]

But I can still play games without any problems?

[LiNuX]

you can still play games? I still think its a ram issue, it doesn't sound like anything else - you could try wiping your hard drive and starting all over again, you might just have a nasty virus mimicking a ram issue. I can't say for sure from my end since I've never had an issue like that

[Trunks]

My friends laptop did that same thing, except he couldn't open up anything.... I reformatted it for him and it works perfectly now.

[Scott]

Ok so my sister told me to reinstall windows and that is what I did. So it worked for about a week and now it's worse than it was. I have the problemsthat I had before but now I can't even use safari or iTunes or anything like that. When I start up safari. It looks like it's working but then the screen flashes and the bar at the bottom of the returns then a few seconds later it flashes again and safei dissapears? I tried using the sytem recovery disk but it just says it encountered a problem and it stops?

(Oh and I made this post on the iPod)

[Trunks]

Hmmm, did you ever try to switch in and out RAM's? If you reformatted, it's probably not a virus, so it has to be a hardware issue.

If it's not your RAM then your hard drive could be going bad and it isn't storing memory properly.

[Scott]

I am ready to throw the computer out of the window. I turned it on today to move stuff off it and onto a flash drive. But it keeps on turning it's self off every 15 minutes. Oh and it isn't Reading the keyboard or the psp.

I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with it and I'm just going to take it into PC world and get them to fix it...

[jakncoke]

I am ready to throw the computer out of the window. I turned it on today to move stuff off it and onto a flash drive. But it keeps on turning it's self off every 15 minutes. Oh and it isn't Reading the keyboard or the psp.

I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with it and I'm just going to take it into PC world and get them to fix it...

Won't they charge an arm an a leg and possibly 1 or maybe 2 of your balls?

[jcowns]

Won't they charge an arm an a leg and possibly 1 or maybe 2 of your balls?

LOL if they're expensive why not just build another computer?

[Scott]

Ok so I turned the computer on today and everything is back to normal? Apparently I had a virus and it was removed from the computer and now it's faster than ever. I might even be able to use FF now and hopefully now this is fixed I will be able to play Left 4 Dead before it used to stop every 5 minutes...