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Hello I'm Karen and new to this forum. I used to have fairly longish hair but now I am totally bald due to pulling it all out recently when my computer left me.

Basically I've pressed so many buttons on it that it got sick and collapsed. Okay, when I turn the computer on it comes up with 'tetris' but not the game. Then it looks as though its going to open up, i.e., the blue screen appears and then the window with the light reflection and then that is it. It doesn't continue to welcome me or proceed to the main desk top icon screen. The only thing it displays is a box with performance manager written in it and it looks like a hospital heart beat monitor. I really am stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hello Tony, thank you for your reply. How will I know what make and model? I know I sound a bit thick, or a lot thick but, to cut a long story short, my husband died prematurely, 12 months ago, and the information you request from me is something I never needed to know. The monitor is a noc.
To start the computer I press the silver 'on' button on the computer tower. To shut down, I click the bottom left hand corner of the monitor until it states 'shutdown' and then a few seconds later it switches off. I've not been able to close it down using this method for a couple of days because the icon at the bottom left hand corner is not displayed and has been replaced with a window symbol. When I move the mouse arrow to that window icon at the bottom, I end up with a blue rotating circle.

Held down power button on monitor until the screen went black, then switched it back on, and it returned to the blue screen with the window in it.

 

The monitor is a noc, it looks like an upside down letter 'V', followed by the letters, O and C.
I have held down the silver button on the tower to turn the computer off because I can't now do this from the shut down menu on the monitor be a use I can't access it. However, when just press the silver button to start up the computer, it still stops at the blues green with the window.
The computer is a Pentium p4 model 450w.

 

I can't find d any of those names. All I have is Pentium p4. Is P/N:EPIONI any use?

 

If I'm understanding correctly, the computer runs Window's 10 and it partially starts up?

If so, try this:

As soon as Windows starts to load, hold down the power button and the computer will turn off. Now repeat that process 2 or 3 times and Windows will automatically go into "Automatic Repair Mode" which will attempt to fix the start up issue.

 

Thank you I will try tomorrow now. I feel I am on a road to nowhere, because I believe my late husband built this comp so it probably has parts from different manufacturers. Thanks anyway for being there for me.

 

I assumed it, as almost all end users now run Windows 10. Plus, Karen posted in the W10 forum

 

By "light reflection" screen, do you mean this:

 

That's exactly it! The picture. I did what you asked... I turned the comp on and off when the window appeared, three times. It did then state that it was doing a fault and diagnostic test... whoooopeee I thought, then it wanted a password for the administrator, in order to do checks, delete certain files, troubleshoot etc. and guess what? I don't know it. So don't know what to do.

Prodr, I will turn the computer upside down tomorrow to see if I can find further info on make and model. The thing is, there aren't any sides to this computer, It sits within a computer's department within a desk but when I slide it out, I can see all the wires and mechanisms and drives etc. EP10N1, I think is a power supply. Sorry, I originally typed it to you as letters when some should have been numerals. Thank you for everybody's support.

 

You don't have to do any of that (at least for now), as we now know for sure that the computer runs Windows 10.

When you say it asks for a password, does it look similar to one of the following 2 images?

 

No, I normally see something very similar to the second screen, however, I don't have to enter a password, I think, for some reason, it had already been set and automatically loads passed this. Once, as you asked, I switched comp on and off a few times, and it came up with 'auto repair' then moved to ' diagnostics', it came up with highlighted boxes I.e., troubleshoot, reset, so, for example, I clicked 'troubleshoot'. However, it then asked for a password in order to carry out the request, I don't know the password. I hope I'm making sense. Think I need a glass of red wine, or a vodka and orange, or both!