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[donna-marie]

XP boots up goes to screen saying windows XP then does jack, doesn't go to logging in screen, i've tried safe mode again goes to window XP screen then again no further.

help me before i drop it from a great hight.

I have a recovery disc but because it does not even let me through to the desktop screen its no use to man nor beast.
 

[nixoro]

Have you tried booting from the Xp disk 1st then running the repair from within the windows setup :question

Although I'm guessing your trying to keep whats on it, not  100% sure if this will delete stuff.

[donna-marie]

i will try anything (pardon the pun) i haven't tried that one.

[Martin_1962]

Take the side off, hold onto the chassis and do not let go.

Unplug and replug the wide ribbon leads, one MAY have worked loose.

How dusty is it in there?

[TheBoy]

Classic Windows problem.

If you don't need the data, rebuild it.

If you do need the data, plug the hard drive into a friends PC, copy off required data, then put it back in yours and rebuild.

The recovery disk should allow you to reinstall from scratch - set the PC to boot from CD.  The recovery disk may destroy your data, so get that off first as said above.


Soz, if about seems a bit short and terse, I am currently in a bit of a rush

[Craig_R]

A Recovery Disk Will Destroy your Data if you only have one harddrive.

Its good to have 2 drives one for the operating system and another for data Photos files music and so forth.

If i was yourself i would buy another hard drive and make a brand new intall and install all the software you use and then make a recovery disk, plug in the drive you have now as a second drive and get all the information you need off it and place it on the new drive, format the old drive and copy back the information and keep it as a data drive.

if you have any problems in the future you will only need to recover the primary drive with the recovery disk you made it will take no time at all to recover and it will have all your installed software ready to go, one more thing BACK UP your data drive from time to time external harddrives are mega cheap these days

Craig

[donna-marie]

thanks every one for your suggestions i will give everything a go, and let you know if i need any more help.

[Bo Bo]

I had this once, turned out the graphics card was fried....

[x25xe]

If the graphics card has two monitor connections, is the cable plugged into the correct one?  I had this very thing this morning at work!

[Craig_R]

Ah X25xe is right i have had this before.

If your monitor is plugged into the wrong VGA port it will only show black after that point as both VGA outputs show the samething until the XP logo shows up and then it gos into XP.

[TheBoy]

I had this once, turned out the graphics card was fried....

Most times I've seen this, it causes a blue screen of death....

[tunnie]

make sure its not trying to boot off anything...

For some reason next doors PC refused to boot, turned out it was trying to boot of the card reader on the printer!  

Unplugged the printer and booted fine, if the printer was turned on during boot it refused to boot!  :-/

Unplug everything but power, and try to boot....

[megaomega123]

Boot from your xp disc and run the recovery console. At the c: prompt type    "fixboot" without quotes. Quick and simple, worked for me. If it does not work then do the same again but this time type   "fixmbr"

One or both should do the trick. Also this will not change any of you data except the boot record.

Good luck  

[TheBoy]

if its getting to near logon, its not a boot issue, so fix boot (which ensures key files are in place such as ntldr) and fixmbr (rewrite mbr) are unlikely to have an effect...

[Dave-C]

I had this once, turned out the graphics card was fried....

Me too ! G Force garbage