Hi, this is my first post here.
My computer is having problems. I just returned to it this afternoon to watch something on youtube and the fan started to go crazy. It crashed and I had to turn it off ; thinking that it was OVERHEATED, i left it for a while and then took off the case for the first time to remove all the fluff from everywhere. Now when i turn it on it goes to the windows starting screen with the loading bar then restarts. safe mode doesnt work and i obviously can't get to system restore because windows wont load up. (it did this when i restarted it before i took the case off). im not so SURE about my specs other than i have windows XP home edition, 512 ram and it is fujitsu siemens
Please HELP me or give me suggestions of what to do.
IT HAS MY COURSEWORK AND IT WONT GIVE IT BACK! First of all, this is a good example of why you should always backup everything you want to keep.

That being said, when you try booting into safe mode, where does it freeze? You should see a list of files and then if it doesn't work (reboots), it should freeze at a specific file. tell us what that is and we can help to try and diagnose the issue.ok well i put in the windows disc and opened the repair menu, i had no idea what to do so i took it out once i had finished and it just worked..... all the usb ports stopped missing but eventually it all worked. Thanks for yhe help anywayI'm glad it worked, even though you aren't clear at all on what you did to RESOLVE it (putting in the disk and CHOOSING repair mode doesn't do anything unless you actually type a command in the repair console)