kewidogg
06-17-2002, 01:16 AM
Ok, here's the scoop. I start burning a CD one day happily using windows xp. Middle of burning the CD, computer crashes. I restart the computer only to find my registry got corrupted beyond repair, and I had to reformat (lost absolutely everything). So I reformat and throw in my Windows XP cd to install it, but...it crashes. It brings up the blue screen, then loads a ton of stuff in the bottom status bar, but says nothing in the blue (where it usually asks if I want to format the partition, etc). At the end of loading all the crap at the bottom, it says "Starting Windows..." then my computer "beeps" (keyboard lights flash/mouse light flashes) *TWICE*, about 5 seconds apart, then I get a black screen and it's frozen. Here is the weird part. This is after reformatting (and f-disking) 2 seperate hard drives. Not only that, but it won't install on EITHER hard drive. So I throw in a windows 2000 CD. Windows 2000 has essentially the same install procedure, and again, does the exact same thing. So I try them in a different CD drive, same thing. Finally decided to install windows 98 (yuck) and see if I can't update to windows xp/2000 from a 98 install. Well doing so requires, yes you guessed it, a restart, to which it tries to do the same thing as a clean install, and thus freezes again. Has ANYONE had this problem before? Can anyone help me?!