Save My Computer Please

OK, here's the deal: I have a WinXp PC (home) and everything was peachy 😊 i did a recent virus check, AdAware check and it was all good 🙂

but then, this morning, a friend tries to use Championship Manager as i watch Family Guy. Everything started screwing up, so i tried to fix it, but all I could do was restart. CTRL ALT DEL didn't work, so i manually restarted.

now when i turn it on, 90% of the time I get a blue screen with the egg timer - note: keyboard and mouse work fine.

the other 10%, i get a list of my usernames, the Windows logo and the "turn off" command.... except i can't click any of them 😐

i don't really wanna wipe my computer, i don't have a reboot disk, and i'm using my Win ME PC with 56k at the moment.... what do i do cry

anyone that can help - even you, yers, much appreciated 😊

That's beyond screwed 😂
And that was me being a help 🥷

Irene, that's probably more useful than the crap i'm gonna get from the technical staff

"did you try running it in safe mode?"

"of course i ****ing did, do i sound disabled to you?" 😐

do you have system restore thing working? 😬

i have no other idea i'm very sorry for you cry

well, on the plus side I have broadband on my old PC now 😄

and i have no restore disk.... my friend has a WinXp disk i can borrow.... and there is no way to access system restore TMK 😬

yes. one good point.

but really you let someone to use it and it is totally broken 😑

he was only using Champ.... it must have been a coincidence 😬

maybe he did it on purpose 🥷
btw have you asked him what were he doing exacly?

😂 he's not smart enough to do this, so i realy doubt it 😛

and i saw what he was doing, just putting Champ into different disk drives getting it to work

note: it did work, but he closed it when he lost.

I say you shoot your friend ✅

😱 thanks for the advice sweetie, the PC works great now but I have a dead body to deal with..... now I've just made another problem 🙁

btw, i'm kidding, i still need PC help 🙁

Originally posted by dave123
anyone that can help - even you, yers, much appreciated 😊

i know 😛 you and raz are the most useful people here (besides me)

any ideas?

well, ... yes. but I don't like your tone mister!

seriously, which version of Championship are you playing? cause there were some people who had problems with playing/installing it up to the point it went spaz
and which team did he pick?

HA 😱 i told you it is your friend's fault.

bastard friend 😠

it's the latest one.... i THINK he selected chelsea and my other friend i'm SURE was newcastle ✅

1.5? was it the early one where you don't need the CD to play it for? cause that pushes things to hell

hmmm, why pick one from Premier? take one from Third and get them to the top

well it does require the CD, yeah

and Scunthorpe were never intended to get that far up the table 😛

how about you place the HD in another PC (your old one?) set it as slave and start the PC up, delete CM from it, place it back in your new one and see if that solves the problem

isn't cambridge in that one? in the last edition I have, they were decent with that dutch goalie, Young, etc.

god knows, i haven't even checked it out myself

and no can do Mr Yers ❌ this old PC ain't gonna let it happen ❌

firstly, it physically can't

secondly, i'm not sure if different OS's can let you do that

thirdly, i can't modify my new computer else i lose the guarantee 😬