Well im on my dad's labtop because my computer is being so homosexual? no not the internet or any shit like that..when i turn on my computer it says in white letters (black font) the way scary viruses show lol..that there was something wrong with my hardware..and it said blah blah seconds until windows starts..so it was about to start..but it didnt because the thing that said there was something wrong with my hardware and shit kept showing over and over..i restarted my computer like 7-8 times and that shit will keep on showing and keep saying blah blah seconds until windows starts..and it never starts..it always says that when i turn on my computer..is it a virus?? I want use my computer! plz help!! is there a way to restart the WHOLE THING for my computer/windows to work?? ahh idk wat to do..help will be grreat

What exactly does the big scary thing say?

Do you think it will be removed if i reboot?

//EDIT: it says we are sorry for the inconvience, the windows couldnt start blah blah..too lazy to type it all..

i think its a virus... does it like say u have 20 secs left or something then after 20 secs it just blasts off? weellll i have expereinced that before but i dunno how to fix it. send it to the repair shop or something...

Could be a problem with the registry, could be something altered in your computer's BIOS. Most likely you installed an infected file that set off the chain reaction of bad events on your computer. I suggest just running the recovery disks through the start-up if you cant get the computer to fully start up.

Can you reboot your computer?

be a man and contact microsoft technicap support.

Why would you wish that on to someone?! Thats torture, it took then 3 days to figure out why my rebate hasnt come in yet. Screw bombing Iraq give them all faulty Microsoft products... they'll surrender themselves talking to Indian people that no one can understand.

I love it when I get redirected to India and I have crazy trouble understanding their accent.

Thats the best. Yep. The best.

Re-install windows XP or whatever you have. Or, if your computer came with a recovery disk, put that in.

Rebooting is restarting...so no rebooting wouldn't help.

But like ryanoman said, just reinstall your windows or if you have files that need saving, take out the harddrive and stick it in another comp and backup your files. Though it would be better if you got the actual error message because no one is going to know your problem unless they know what the error message is. If you actually want something fixed, you gotta give people the right info.

Oh yea, and it's called a laptop. NOT a labtop, it's to put on your lap and not in a lab. Notebook computer works as well.

Really, drives me crazy. I used to call it a labtop when I was 7.

Anyway, please post the error you get. That would really help me out. Because I could find a solution. By the way, did you put a recovery or Operating System disk in.

it's a virus alright sorry to say u got that 20 sec reboot virus :( you have to format your hard drive :)

Darnit, I have the virus, too. I don't know where I got it from, though..

ok this happened to me. It's going to keep showing up until you do somwthing. It gives you 20 seconds to answer at the bottom. there's a bunch of chhoices. chools "start windows normally" nad then it will start normally. your computer did this becuase there was a disturbance. Maybe you power went out when you were doing recovery or something like that.

you know what you do, you go to Google and search the exact error message you get in quotes.

and if that doesn't work, tell us the exact message that comes up.

call microsoft..thats what i did for my mom when her comp was like that..it cant be that bad..i accidently called the mexico section and had a hard time understanding what they were saying..lol..but ya call microsoft..

You might have to reformat your computer again. That happened to my computer, but it was Windows 98 & this is a differ comp. It was cause I kept shutting the computer improperly. Like just pressing the on and off button without pressing turn off, when supposed to.

Do you know the 1-800 number for Microsoft? :/