I have a dell XPS desktop that I have had for 2 years now. All of a sudden it wont boot now. I turn on the PC, the light flashes, and it starts to boot. The screen comes up with the DELL logo and a blue bar beneath it (this load bar is the 1 before the windows one). Every single time I boot it the bar stops at the E in DELL and never goes past it. I booted the PC up and shut it down about 50 times before it finally made it past the E and booted up normally.

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no. It will start but only after spending 30 mins rebooting it 50 times. Id like to fix it so it boots first try or Im worried eventually it wont boot at all

You have a dell, why not use the XP cd it came with and do a repair install? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/... Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers