Re: cant get XP to start....HELP PLEASE!!!

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 10/01/04


Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:12:20 -0700

Thanks lads, i'll have a go anyway!

>-----Original Message-----
>You have to set the BIOS to boot from the CD. Just
sticking the CD in the
>drive and rebooting won't work. Try getting into Safe
Mode if you can. If
>you can get the thing to start up in Safe Mode you can
run a virus scan and
>do some other cleanup work. It is not out of the realm
of possibility that
>you have some sort of worm or virus.
>
>"Tony" <tonyobrien1@o2.ie> wrote in message
>news:0d6d01c4a7ff$6e471db0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi. Please help. Everytime i start my pc it goes
straight
>> to a blue screen saying "massive system failure, system
>> has shut down". Now no matter what i press nothing
>> happens. This happens before i even get to a login
screen.
>> I put the XP cd in the drive in the hope that it might
>> boot from that but its will only boot from the floppy.
>> HELP!
>
>
>.
>



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