RE: PC won't boot to XP
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Date: 11/25/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:19:02 -0800
"vikki lockhart" wrote:
> The setup goes like this:
> TIME PC (cough, spit), running Windows XP Home edition, although bugger me
> if I can remember if I upgraded to S1 or S2...
> AMD Athlon xp2700
> 120GB HD
> 512MB DDR RAM
>
> Okay. So the story begins last week. The last significant thing I can
> remember doing with my pc before the problem started was downloading some
> DVD authoring shareware - I seem to remember that upon running the
> installation program I encountered an error, but this appeared to have no
> effect on the system at the time - I simply cancelled the installation,
> shrugged my shoulders, turned off the Pc and toddled off to bed.
>
> Next morning I turn on the PC before heading off to class, and it starts the
> disk check, but this runs a lot more slowly than usual. Coming back into the
> room ten minutes later I observe that the disk check has picked up on a
> problem with files relating to the aforementioned dvd authoring software
> download...not thinking much of it, I leave the disk check running and go to
> class.
>
> Returning a few hours later I'm faced with a blank screen, blinking cursor
> in the top left corner. Turned the power off, turned the power on - system
> goes through the initial stages of the boot (BIOS etc) fine, but just before
> the point where the windows XP splash screen would come up, the blank screen
> again rears its ugly head, and the boot doesn't proceed any further, and
> this has been the case since. No error messages or anything, just the blank
> screen and blinking cursor.
>
> Pressing F8 doesn't appear to have any effect, except in one instance - and
> this I found extremely odd - when it displayed the 'Windows 98 Boot Options'
> title and options...but Windows 98 is not, and never has been installed on
> this machine.
>
> I have a few ideas still to try out - I've been more concerned with getting
> access to another pc in order to finish term papers in time than on fixing
> mine - but I thought I'd post here for any suggestions in the meantime. I do
> have a couple of major problems, though: I don't appear to have a boot disk
> any more (God knows where that went), and I don't have an XP CD (The company
> I bought the PC from don't provide them - instead they provide a 'Reload CD'
> of their own that includes it, but this isn't loading up either).
>
> So. Any suggestions? I've already spent a small fortune on support lines
> this month trying to get the monitor replaced so I'm reluctant to call them
> again...and I'd like to avoid having to format, as I have half a
> dissertation stranded on that HD - well, unless it's been eaten already.
> Sigh.
>
> Thanks in advance people
>
>
>
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