Summary: 'This DELL machine is a startup screen loop' Do you mean it just gets to XP startup screen, then reboots? And pressing the F8 key doesn't bring up the...
Summary: Hi my laptop won't boot normally or in safe mode or anything.When I boot into safe mode it hangs on hal.dll.What is the problem?.I don't have my xp cd...
Summary: Hi guys, A while ago I decided to multi boot Win98 & XP. It works because of the Partition Magic 7.0 Bootmanager. I had to partitions (one 98 and one ...
Summary: I didn't change any BIOS settings; I just temporarily hooked the new drive to the DVD burner's cable. I can tell that it's reading off the original d...
Summary: I take it you have double checked you've properly reconnected the IDE cable (its not slightly loose?) when you say neither fixboot nor fixmbr worked -...
Summary: Hi, I've got a Dell Dimension 4300 1.6 gh running Windows XP. It is about two months old. Yesterday I inadvertantly shut the PC off without doing th...
Summary: I'm trying to replace the cd drive in my dell inspiron with an AOpen drive I found on pricewatch, but after I swap out the drives my system won't boot...
Summary: PC won't boot. Safe Mode hangs at the loading text portion. None of the safe mode options work, all hang. Booting from WinXpCD works, but both the rep...
Summary: i need help, my system won't boot to bios or windows at start up. not even a blue screen. could it a dead psu. motherboard, or hard drive? ...
Summary: New problem. After following kk's suggestion, i took everything off and tried to redo it. It started saying "Error loading OS" over and over. So I gav...
Summary: I used Norton Ghost to clone my old hdd to my new one, but the new one won't boot giving me an error. I'm pretty sure I know why though, however I do...
Summary: HELP! I'm a newbie and was trying to combine two NTSF partitions using Partition Magic and now my computer won't boot. One was the original partitio...
Summary: I am trying to change the HD in my computer. I have a 100 gig with XP Pro on it. I had it in a GX150 yesterday, but I want it in my 2350 because of t...
Summary: My XP won't boot up. It starts booting for about ten seconds then stops. All I I see is a blank screen and a flashing cursor in the upper left hand co...
Summary: I got this computer through a "friend of a friend" and all it was missing was a video card. The person said it was working perfectly. I tried two di...
Summary: hi, my win xp won't boot up.. the screen comes up about the unsuccesful error.. where it says safe mode.. safe mode with networking.. and safe mode wi...
Summary: I recently installed vista but I did a dual boot with XP. I deleted vista due to dislike from its partition. Now the bootloader for vista. Was still...
Summary: Hi All, I’m new on this forum yes and you guessed I’m here because I’ve got a problem with my laptop. I did do a search and there are a lot o...
Summary: I've got this Dell Pentium 4 motherboard that seems to be working fine accept when I connect a Sata hdd to it. It's got both ide connections which I ...
Summary: HP 533w won't boot up. It was unplugged prematurely and I guess this resulted in files being corrupted. I would just reformat but I can't get back i...
Summary: Unplugged computer to move it and it refuses to boot up now. It has a Wildcat VP970 video card which has previously caused a lot of problems with the ...
Summary: I've been running an IDE slave in my computer since I installed the OS. The OS is on my SATA drive since it is the faster of the two. The IDE is an ...
Summary: Well... Christmas last year I managed to get the blue screen of death (or i'm lead to believe by my parent's friends/technicians) Anyhowe, story goes...
Summary: The computer is infected with "Home Search Assistant" and I took the advice from one of the postings which was run CWShredder and press fix and quickl...
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