Windows Reset, after unplug from wall outlet?

aolforbroadband · March 28th, 2004

This is so weird. I unplugged my PC while it was on and left it off for an hour or so. Then I reboot, and Windows is back to it's defaults for everything. All my cookies are gone, my quick launch buttons, some of my desktop shortcuts, all my saved settings and configurations for almost all of my programs! What happened? Now I'm just thinkin of underclocking back to stock and reformatting windows once again, only after 1 month.

Could this be some sort of corruption from unplugging from the wall during Windows operation? I've unplugged it was it was on several times before, mainly to get away with certain things, but this never happened before. Or maybe corruption from a not-as-stable overclock could have been the case?

Any advice and what I should do now is appreciated. Thanks!

**hushypushy** · March 28th, 2004

make sure you are logged on as your username. let's say, for example, that your username is "john doe" and you always log onto that (via autologon perhaps).

what it may have done is logged you on as "administrator" and given you a different set of everything, a different user. so just switch users to the regular "john doe" one (or wahtever your name is

)

this happened to me right when i installed windows 2000, and set my settings up. i rebooted and they were gone!!!! but it turned out i was on admin the second time.

aolforbroadband · March 28th, 2004

No go, I'm logged in as the same user as before...

**cooliscool** · March 28th, 2004

The system may have messed up some how and windows restored the registry from back when it was first installed. It's happened to me before.. overclocking too high or wrongly has always been the case. If so, you should still have all your programs and stuff.

DontBeAfraid · March 28th, 2004

overclocking and unplugging while its on???? You deserve to reformat/reinstall every month.

aolforbroadband · March 28th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by DontBeAfraid

overclocking and unplugging while its on???? You deserve to reformat/reinstall every month.

Thanks for the info, anus.

Anyway, I get this error when Windows boots up:

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

What the hell? It says my profile is corrupted or is missing and cannot be loaded too. What could have caused this?

**cooliscool** · March 28th, 2004

Overclocking too high can easily corrupt data.. looks like it corrupted your profile data. Try setting to stock and formatting.. I'll bet it won't happen ever again.

lord_muad_dib · March 28th, 2004

err.. check the document and settings folder ... there are all the users profiles

aolforbroadband · March 28th, 2004

Yup, I rebooted again and same deal. *sigh* I even had my memory set to 3T for the most stability. Oh well, time for a 105MHz FSB and a 2.8ghz speed. Before I format I gotta burn all my crap onto CDs...Again.

I'll set it back to stock speeds when I use Fdisk, wish me luck.

D.D. · March 28th, 2004

sorry to say this szl, but i DID warn u about not making sure ur oc was stable using prime95, but at the time u insisted it was unnecessary...

aolforbroadband · March 29th, 2004

Hmm yeah it looks like it was the overclock yo. Remember I told you I had problems converting my drive to NTFS for XP Pro? Well, going back to stock speeds cured that problem. Things seems to run faster too, hmm, I missed this feeling.

D.D.- Hey, ya live ya learn. I actually just thought I'd run into the occasional reboot and lockup or the like, not my XP Profile going corrupted.

RF · March 29th, 2004

No, you read you learn. Even a newb who read a few tutorials/faq pages would know how to test their system for stability. For your stupidity you paid the price.

If you still want to recover some stuff, you could try one of these.
http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm

aolforbroadband · March 29th, 2004

Dude, it was Prime 95 stable for 7 hours, give me a break.

**hushypushy** · March 29th, 2004

7 hours is pathetic, i've run 9 hours just to see it fail, you need to really test it. the more you OC the more you need to test it.

cooliscool tested his Tualatin for over 24 hours stable. that's what you need to do

RF · March 30th, 2004

yea, you are supposed to run it for a day, extreme overclockers run it over 48hours.

**Snake785** · March 30th, 2004

thats some insane testing...I couldn't handle that if that means that I couldn't play any games

**hushypushy** · March 30th, 2004

well, i can still use my computer while prime95ing so it's no biggie

aolforbroadband · March 30th, 2004

Yeah, well my dad yelled at me to turn it off since it sounds like a jet engine about to launch. I assumed that 7+ hours would be sufficiente since I wouldn't really stress it that much. Oh well, the format went great, and my Divx encoding is actually going faster now.

**Razor Blade** · March 30th, 2004

I look at it this way. Wouldn't you rather pay for a new Processor and have 2 chips than taking a chance to burn one out and have none at all.

2.7 Ghz isnt slow by any means. Hell it is fast! Though an Intel Celeron isnt the fastest choice.

Your just an overclocking wh0r3!

aolforbroadband · March 30th, 2004

Indeed RB.

I guess I shouldn't be greedy. Some people are still running P2's as their main machines!

March 28th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Windows Reset, after unplug from wall outlet? This is so weird. I unplugged my PC while it was on and left it off for an hour or so. Then I reboot, and Windows is back to it's defaults for everything. All my cookies are gone, my quick launch buttons, some of my desktop shortcuts, all my saved settings and configurations for almost all of my programs! What happened? Now I'm just thinkin of underclocking back to stock and reformatting windows once again, only after 1 month. Could this be some sort of corruption from unplugging from the wall during Windows operation? I've unplugged it was it was on several times before, mainly to get away with certain things, but this never happened before. Or maybe corruption from a not-as-stable overclock could have been the case? Any advice and what I should do now is appreciated. Thanks! __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 28th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	make sure you are logged on as your username. let's say, for example, that your username is "john doe" and you always log onto that (via autologon perhaps). what it may have done is logged you on as "administrator" and given you a different set of everything, a different user. so just switch users to the regular "john doe" one (or wahtever your name is ) this happened to me right when i installed windows 2000, and set my settings up. i rebooted and they were gone!!!! but it turned out i was on admin the second time. __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

March 28th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	No go, I'm logged in as the same user as before... __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 28th, 2004	#4 (permalink)
cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,150	The system may have messed up some how and windows restored the registry from back when it was first installed. It's happened to me before.. overclocking too high or wrongly has always been the case. If so, you should still have all your programs and stuff. __________________ Fayt : Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i (crap OCer), 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

March 28th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,150	Overclocking too high can easily corrupt data.. looks like it corrupted your profile data. Try setting to stock and formatting.. I'll bet it won't happen ever again. __________________ Fayt : Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i (crap OCer), 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

March 28th, 2004	#5 (permalink)
DontBeAfraid Banned Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 142	overclocking and unplugging while its on???? You deserve to reformat/reinstall every month.

March 28th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
lord_muad_dib The FORCE is my ally Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: italy Posts: 176	err.. check the document and settings folder ... there are all the users profiles __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+(939 SanDiego CORE)@2,6Ghrz MoBo: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLi RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR Dual Channel GPU: Geforce 68000 Ultra PCIEX: 16X >> Monitors: LG Flatron F700B 17''CRT <> Hyundai ImageQuest L17T SPU: ABIT internal AudioMAX 7.1 + EAX >> Audio Out: My HiFi HDDs SATA: MAXTOR 200GB x2 HDDs IDE: MAXTOR 80GB DVDRW: Pioneer 108 Connection: ADSL Router Hamlet HDSL 740 @4Mbs/256Kbs OSes: WinXP Pro@SP2 <> GNU/Linux Gentoo <> APPLE Darwin 8.4 <> DOS 6.22

March 28th, 2004	#9 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Yup, I rebooted again and same deal. sigh I even had my memory set to 3T for the most stability. Oh well, time for a 105MHz FSB and a 2.8ghz speed. Before I format I gotta burn all my crap onto CDs...Again. I'll set it back to stock speeds when I use Fdisk, wish me luck. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 28th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,574	sorry to say this szl, but i DID warn u about not making sure ur oc was stable using prime95, but at the time u insisted it was unnecessary... __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

March 29th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Hmm yeah it looks like it was the overclock yo. Remember I told you I had problems converting my drive to NTFS for XP Pro? Well, going back to stock speeds cured that problem. Things seems to run faster too, hmm, I missed this feeling. D.D.- Hey, ya live ya learn. I actually just thought I'd run into the occasional reboot and lockup or the like, not my XP Profile going corrupted. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 29th, 2004	#12 (permalink)
RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	No, you read you learn. Even a newb who read a few tutorials/faq pages would know how to test their system for stability. For your stupidity you paid the price. If you still want to recover some stuff, you could try one of these. http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm __________________

March 29th, 2004	#13 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Dude, it was Prime 95 stable for 7 hours, give me a break. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 29th, 2004	#14 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	7 hours is pathetic, i've run 9 hours just to see it fail, you need to really test it. the more you OC the more you need to test it. cooliscool tested his Tualatin for over 24 hours stable. that's what you need to do __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

March 30th, 2004	#15 (permalink)
RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	yea, you are supposed to run it for a day, extreme overclockers run it over 48hours. __________________

March 30th, 2004	#16 (permalink)
Snake785 Prepare for Descent... Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 2,615	thats some insane testing...I couldn't handle that if that means that I couldn't play any games __________________ My Computer specs: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz 512 MB of RAM Geforce FX 5700 128 MB Windows XP SP1 Click here for Flaretech.Biz Web Hosting

March 30th, 2004	#17 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	well, i can still use my computer while prime95ing so it's no biggie __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

March 30th, 2004	#18 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Yeah, well my dad yelled at me to turn it off since it sounds like a jet engine about to launch. I assumed that 7+ hours would be sufficiente since I wouldn't really stress it that much. Oh well, the format went great, and my Divx encoding is actually going faster now. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

March 30th, 2004	#19 (permalink)
Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,030	I look at it this way. Wouldn't you rather pay for a new Processor and have 2 chips than taking a chance to burn one out and have none at all. 2.7 Ghz isnt slow by any means. Hell it is fast! Though an Intel Celeron isnt the fastest choice. Your just an overclocking wh0r3! __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

March 30th, 2004	#20 (permalink)
aolforbroadband I am pro, lawl. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Washington D.C. Area Posts: 1,834	Indeed RB. I guess I shouldn't be greedy. Some people are still running P2's as their main machines! __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2GB Corsair XMS2 \| eVGA 7900GS 320GB SATAII \| Antec Sonata II \| Antec 450W Sony XBRITE 17" LCD \| Logitech G5 Mouse

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