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Yeah my computer randomly died in the middle of a l4d2 game and now when i boot it up it just gets stuck on the windows loading screen with the blue bar cycling and dosnt go any further.
If i try last known good configuration it does the same.
If i start in safe mode in loads the drivers then reboots itself before it gets to the desktop.
And i dont think i have a windows cd.
Welp? :(

Hmm i may have to torrent, i mean “Legally Obtain” Windows Xp on my laptop and burn a boot disc, may be the only way.

I did hear windows 7 is good tho :x

buy win7

+1

well i had a pasta bake that day. maybe pasta bake fixes pc’s? probably just the smell alone going through the intake fan made windows wake up.

if that doesn’t work i would honestly consider feeding the cd drive a few small mouthfuls of said meal. and coat your ram-sinks in a bit of parmazan. should do the trick nicely!

mine did that. but then i just left it while i had dinner and came back to a working pc…go have dinner

Win!

try and reinstall just windows as in dont format the partition, should work.

It’ll be a config file somewhere that go fucked, doubt your RAID is dead. ;)

I presume you have another HDD with your stuff on it, just load up ubuntu directly from a CD, copy the stuff on the RAID that you want to keep to the other HDD, then just reformat. Simple as that. Can even save the bother of re-downloading TF2/L4D2, etc,,, by copying your SteamApps folder, and then copying it back once you reinstall steam after reformatting.

If you don’t have another HDD (assuming its RAID 0 which i presume it is), then you are a silly man and should go buy one. ;)

Tried that it said cant find a signed EULA or somthing? :<

Sounds like your “legally obtained” XP copy is a bad burn. Try again at a lower burn speed.

tbh it really doesnt sound like an HDD issue at all or anything of the sort. do you smell anything thats kinda burnt or something, were you monitoring your temps seeing as sometimes the source engine is a bit heavy on the gpu temps. have you tried refitting in your memory/other components?