My buddy's EMachine

well he bought it 3 years ago, and now it takes 45 minutes to get to the desktop, so he asked me for help…

well the bios is blocked by a password that he does not have, and when you try to boot from the last good settings it shuts down.. it has to check the files for consistency and if you skip that it also shuts down.

when it tries to go to safe mode it just show alot of this

multi(0)disk(0)Rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\*.sys

the star is where all the different files show up…

so anyone have any ideas?

I also have an EMachines computer. I do not know how to fix it..

Well, you can reset the BIOS easily..

Just take a non-magnetic screw driver, after turning the computer off abd unplugging it, take off the side panel.

Yo will see something that looks like a lithium battery, 'cause, well, it is a lithium battery. Remove it for about 30 seconds and put it back. Put the side panel back on, and now they are back to the default factory settings.

Safe mode can take a while to load, it should show lines like that, many of them while it is loading.

:D

Pop the CMOS battery, copy the stuff you wanna keep off the HDD to removable media, run a diagnostic on the HDD, and re-install Windows. That's it.

beat the shit out of the box with a baseball bat (preferably metal one) and then burn it… emachines suck…

or just follow what Zephyr_Pure said ahaahaa :ninja:

E-machines are not even worth the effort.

Tell them to buy a new one.

Strikr wrote: E-machines are not even worth the effort.

Tell them to buy a new one.

Buy a new computer… for the issues they're having? Get real.

Zephyr_Pure wrote: [quote]Strikr wrote: E-machines are not even worth the effort.

Tell them to buy a new one.

Buy a new computer… for the issues they're having? Get real.[/quote]

Well for performance, buying a new computer is really the only way you can be certain it'll start running "faster". Like they said earlier, though, reset the BIOS, and reformat the HDD after making important backups off of it. You might also look into adding RAM if it has open slots.

TheSilentDrifter wrote: Well for performance, buying a new computer is really the only way you can be certain it'll start running "faster".

The diagnosis was that the "computer" was running much slower than it did before. Reinstalling Windows will make it run like it did before… unless there are underlying hardware issues, which is unlikely. I reload my Windows machines from an Acronis image about once every 6 months; works for me.

Why does everyone fucking want to reload windows. I've been over this a hundred times, Reloading is a last resort in the event of total catastrophy. Run Hjt on the box in question and post it. I've had my version of XP on 3 of my boxes for over 3yrs now with no reloads.

How you treat the computer isn't necessarily how someone else treats there computer and can hardly be used as a comparison for system stability.

But, that being said, being 3 years old one can assume that it was bought with a large amount of unnecessary software and over the years has gotten a large amount more. Depending on the computer it will even have the jumper or the lithium battery, if it's that old I'm placing money it's the battery so flash it to get into the BIOS. If it's checking the files for consistency, my first question would be well have you let it finish? Could be a problem with the hard drive itself.

As for the directory path when you go to safe mode, that's what it shows as it boots in since it loads the information directly from the hdd. That's where the partition is on the drive, does it actually get load? If you can get into windows, you can start by making sure the av/spyware software is up to date, check msconfig and startup to make sure nothings opening on startup that shouldn't be, event logs but from what you've said, I don't believe your getting that far.

Well it has to check for constancy to actually load to the desktop, but it takes over 45 minutes to get there. he does have unnecessary files but no internet.

i will most likely do the battery thing and get it restarted, he is running xp SP2 and yes i know that e-machines suck, just for the record. well I will see how that goes then post here.

sentinelhawk wrote:
How you treat the computer isn't necessarily how someone else treats there computer and can hardly be used as a comparison for system stability.

First off I see your kinda new here and don't know my experience with windows or repairs. I generally repair between 30 to 50 boxes a week for problems just like this, So I'm not comparing anything I'm telling you they can all be fixed without reloading. This system start-up taking 45 minutes to the desktop is mostly caused by malware or spyware that's why I said run Hjt and post the log anything that is out of place can be identified then. Pulling the battery to reset the bios is a waste of time, And since it still boot you don't need to run checkdisk. Run any spyware and virus programs on it then post Hjt log if no help.