computer screen goes black after windows logo

[Forest]

yep just tried it, nothing, it recongises ive changed it as it when loading up my comps specs says,

mointer sony ... ...
modes "800X600" ... .. .. .
. .. .. .. .

just before the message a white laoding line comes up top right, for a second then the message comes up, so its about to load ,

Forest

[peterb]

It does take a while to load - remeber it is reading off the CD, decompressing the software etc etc...

[Forest]

yh but the message stops it from loading ?

well we have hit a dead end, .......

[peterb]

What is the full message? Have tyou tried the 1024x768 option?

[Forest]

tried didnt work, i found something, when it enters run down of your machine, at the end very quickly a message pops up:

"problem loading AGP modules"
loading windows X ...

boot

message pops up.

i think thats the problem that AGP but yh, got a soloution ? lol

thanks for all the help, very greatfull

Forest

[peterb]

You could try

knoppix vsysnc=60 hsysnc=60

What graphics card is it?

Other option is to boot to command line, but you need some familiarity with linux CLI to find your way around - which I suspect you don't have

One other thing - in addition to the screen settings - add

xserver=XFree86

to the command line (different X server)

[Forest]

lol u got that right

so on the command line add

"knoppix vsysnc=60 hsysnc=60 xserver=XFree86"

or just

"knoppix vsysnc=60 hsysnc=60"

and if that dont work

"xserver=XFree86"

forest

[peterb]

Try them in the order you have listed them

[Forest]

nope didnt work this is hopeless...... whats that

"loading problem AGP modules"

thing about ?

[peterb]

I think loading the Xserver modules for your graphics card - what card is it?

[Forest]

nividia Geforce 7300SE/7200GS 512mb

its crap lol !

right i wripped out the hard drive in subject shoved it in a hard drive less computer, run the disk with same mointer diffrent graphics and its just booted up the screensaver, waiting for further activty its slow, crap computer and booting from disk, so yh. what should happen on boot ?

its boot up a sort of menu its initzliaing logos which are flashing, as sson as this is done what shall i do ?

1) virus scan hard drive
2) rescue important files
3) windows restore it ?
4) ...

forest

[peterb]

So is it booting to windows i the other computer, or are you using the knoppix disk?

[Forest]

disk linux looks cool, im awaiting your instructions lol

forest

[peterb]

OK - if you have booted into the linux graphical screen - you should see icons for the hard drive (if it is multi-partitioned, one for each partition)

You options now are:

Get a USB drive - plug that in to the computer and copy the data files off the hard drive onto the USB drive

See what AV is available on the knoppix disk and run that against the hard drive

If there isn'tt a virus scanner on the CD, then vcopy the data files off the hard drive, then you can download a virus checker (F-prot is pretty good for Linux) and run that against the hard drive - but really the point of this is to rescue your data. Once that is safe you can consider your other options in slower time.#

Obviouysly, if the important stuff is less than a couple of GB, you could put it on a USB memory stick. If the computer has a CD writer on it, you could burn the stuff to the CD ROM - but a USB memory stick or USB hard drive is probably the quickest and safest option.

[Forest]

kk step one rescue important files, can virus get into memory sticks ? just in case i do have 1 ??

Forest

[peterb]

If the files you are copying are infected, then yes they can - but those are most likely to be word macro viruses, so if you have macros turned off when you open the documents, then they won't do any harm, and they are fairly rare these days.

Unless you are copying .exe or .dll files, the risk is pretty small - and you can virus check the USB stick on a windows machine anyway.

My guess would be that your data files are word/excel/pp files, together with jpg and mp3 files - which are safe, as are .txt files.