Re: can not start windows xp

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"Marc-O" <MarcO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Could a RAM FAILURE BE CAUSing this??? i would think that it would not
> boot
> at all OR beep or something... As for hard drive i would of thought i
> would
> of got an error message???? Just asking....

Since you don't report any BIOS beeps I suspect like Malke, that
your HDD is bad, see here
http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

rgds
Li'l Roberto


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