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Windows XP Pro won't boot?

Comment:

I loaded XP from a disk with no problem onto the newly formatted hard drive. Upon start up, the computer gets as far as the Windows screen showing the advancing progress bar but then flashes a blank screen and begins to re-boot again until terminated? Is this Windows, the Bios, hardware?

Name: capt
Date: September 24, 2009 at 18:45:11 Pacific

Reply:

Have you set the boot sequence in the BIOS to HD first?

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Reply:

Yes, the boot sequence is set to HD first. I even re-formatted the HD and downloaded Windows 2000 and it boots with no problem. I know the Windows XP Pro disk is fine because I just loaded it onto two other computers flawlessly?

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