Re: Reinstalling/Repair Windows XP... In Bios and now stuck....

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Apparently, to me anyway, you are confusing windows XP safe mode password
with the bios password (if it exists on your PC).

--
Dave

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"Kimla" <Kimla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:80121D1D-F9E0-4164-B7C4-302E6D04352B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
Thank you for your help in this matter. I could not log on to windows 2
days ago. The welcome screen comes up and then I click on my account and
it
acts like it will log on but then flashes and underneath it says logging
off.
Anyway, so I read somewhere I need to reinstall windows xp with the cd. I
am in that process right now. In BIOS mode it asks for my adm. password
and
it will not accept it. In system set up mode I checked to see what it was
and it said no password selected. So I decided to go ahead and make a
password. But that did not work either. I even shut the computer down for
a
minute and still no.
Also, I was told that I would not lose my files and information if I did a
repair and that is what I am doing instead of reinstalling....
thanks so much,
Kim




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