Hello. I'm having problems with my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. It won't boot past the boot screen. The green bar just keeps going from left to right forever. I tried booting into safe mode but the last driver loaded is the "agp440.sys" and it hangs there. I tried to disable that via the recovery console but it hung at the driver before that, "mup.sys" I have a feeling something after that is preventing it from moving forward? I decided to repairing my xp installation, so I booted up the cd, hit enter, and followed the directions so repair. It seems to have copied everything, it reboots then it just hangs there again! I can't figure what's going on. I can't even repair as it can't even proceed into the installation screen. HELP ME! Thanks for all your replies and suggestions. -Christian

I failed to mention that I also can't boot into any of the other modes (Last known configuration, safe mode with networking, boot logging, command prompt) It hangs at every mode. Is there a way I can get into the hard drive and home network to backup some files (mostly pictures) onto my desktop computer? If so, I can probably reformat the partition and shoot for a clean install. Thanks again.

work around ----------- Here, i understand that , there is a device conflict. or ,there r some device drivers running along with windows . procedure 1 ----------- 1> turn off yr laptop completely. 2> unplug all external devices such as printer, scanner, webcam ,modem etc. 3> start the computer. procedure 2 ----------- 1> try to start in the safe mode, if it starts .... 2> right click on mycomputer>properties>advanced tab> systemrestore and settings -settings>uncheck automatic restart. 3> then do a clean boot process - start>run>msconfig>startup tab>uncheck all items> restart the computer. 4>go to add and remove programs and delete all unwanted stuff. 5>now it works fine. procedure 3 ----------- 1>put the XP(full version) CD in the drive, run the recovery console , run chkdsk /r command 2>restart the computer. 3>if the computer starts , then ok Ravi Vamshi(Vamshi)