Was There A Time That Your Pc Malfunctioned When It Was Turned Off Abruptly?

Sounds like something more nefarious happened to your machine, or a piece of hardware failed on you. For one, I wouldn't use pirated versions of Windows because that's going to give you trouble every time anyways. A legitimate installer disk is more than likely going to solve your problem.

 

Probably a corrupt OS, or HDD is busted. What most likely happened was: when the power went out, the needle of your HDD froze or was damaged, also damaging the spinning magnetic disks inside.

That's why I always have a UPS on my tower and I also install my OS on an SSD, because it has no moving parts.

 

Sounds like a faulty HDD to me. It can hang if the OS HDD suddenly dies while in use, and that would explain why you can't boot up, so I would bet on that.

 

Yes! That is happening to me right now! My laptop is overheating and it keeps shutting off. It is so annoying! I am looking for new laptops on Amazon right now. The weird thing is that in order to turn it on I have to overheat it so it will start up again. Ugh, HP computers!

 

I have had to manually shut off my computer a few times. I do not think it has anything to do with the performance though because everything is still normal with it. Truth be told, I probably need a new laptop anyway, so I probably take less care of it than I should.

 

You can try looking into laptop cooling pads. Or opening up the laptop and cleaning it, it's most likely that the dust had settles in it over the years and is blocking the airflow.

 

Unfortunately, I'm kind of totally computer illiterate. I've had a laptop of mine 'say' that I needed to reinstall windows. I tried, but didn't know how to do it, I ended up mailing the computer back to Dell, under warranty, and they fixed it for free and mailed it back free of charge. Unfortunately, a lot of the features that were on the computer when I mailed it in were no longer on it when it came back, like skpe, microsoft office, and a lot of other things.

I've had another computer of mine shut off a few times, go to blue screen. I had to take it to a local shop because I didn't want to mess with it and make anything worse than it already was.

Thankfully I was able to get that computer fixed, on 2 separate occasions for the same thing, cutting off and going to blue screen. When I got home, I found that some data was missing. I called them, they told me to bring it back to their shop and they would reinstall any missing data that I need from the old hard drive that they took out. I don't know how they're gonna do that, but hopefully it works.

 

Whenever my PC or laptop malfunctions, it's not easy for me to pinpoint the cause. It may have something to do with abrupt shutdowns which usually occur either because of power outages or an accidental removal of the power plug. On the one hand, if you keep installing pirated copies your PC's performance may be severely affected. You can defrag your computer and install a tuneup software to improve its performance.

 

I think that it really depends on what you were doing with the computer when it just shut down. If it was hanging and you had to manually pull the plug on it, it probably has a better chance of malfunctioning when you turn it back on. On the other hand, if you just get a blackout while you are surfing, nothing bad would probably happen.

 

The first time I paid it was like $100, $75. Something like that. The 'computer man' told me it was because it was infected with some type of virus and that's what made the computer go to "the blue screen of death" as they call it.

I was happy to pay it, because everybody I asked (ie people in my life at the time who I would ask to look at the computer), were telling me that I was going to have to get a whole new laptop.

About the 3rd time I brought the computer back, the guy charged me like $40.

 

This is really good advice, the amount of dust which builds up inside the case is phenomenal. It clogs the fans too, making them inefficient. Don't be afraid of opening up your tower or laptop, they are designed to be easily accessible for when people want to upgrade parts. Just make sure you remember which screws go where and you'll be fine.

 

Yep, recently I've seen quite a few people saying they need a new laptop and planning to buy new one because of random freezes and other problems, or straight up overheating, but they didn't try to clean out the dust. It definitely is easy and saves you a few hundred dollars..

 

Yes, I think that this has caused a problem for most people, at least once. I had an issue with windows updates, and it has happened a few times actually, where once you shut your computer down, it installs the updates. But the updates never actually complete, so you are stuck with a blue screen that states, '2 out of 8 updates installing,' for eight hours. You can't turn your computer off during this time either, which is ridiculous, because I need to sleep and there is no way that I am going to sleep and leaving my computer plugged in over night. So I ended up plugging it out and restarting it, and the next time I tried to login, I was met with the blue screen of death.

Had to wipe everything, and start again.

 

Yes it is very frustrating. Windows updates have been terribly glitchy for years now. Even when I was using my Windows XP computer - prior to getting my Windows 7 laptop - the updates would screw up how the computer worked at times. It is annoying, because I find that if you do not install updates as they come, your computer begins to lag and freeze a lot. They force you to install these annoying updates for a smooth sailing Windows experience.

 

I had initially thought that that was the case too. But after installing the updates - a little balloon pops up and often reminds me that I have updates that are ready to install - and restart the computer, it runs very smoothly, up until more updates need to be installed. I find that the longer I go without installing them, the laggier my entire computer gets, until I install the updates again. It is really annoying.