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03-15-2006, 10:12 PM
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A little help please
Really a lot of help I think..
 If this is in the wrong forum I'm sorry. I had a friend build me a new system this weekend.AMD ATHLON 64 San Diego 4000 MSI K8N NEO2 PLAT 2 Gigs Corsair PC3200 ATI X800XT PE Audigy2 2X WD Raptor 74gig..nonraid 1 Maxtor 600 watt pw Windows XP PRO SP2 I'll try to tell you what its doing as best as I can.When I power it on it beeps and then goes thru all of the info screens and then goes to a screen with lot off info.I wont type it all but it starts out with this."We apologize for the inconvenience but windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this." It goes on to tell you a lot of things and the option to start in safe mode,safe mode with networking,safemode with command prompt and normal mode.It wont do any of them. What I was doing just before this happend is I had installed a game and then decided to delete it.I deleted it and rebooted and then the trouble happend.Does anyone have any idea what could have happend?I have system restore turned off.Does it sound like a system problem or could it be a corrupted BIOS?I'm not real computer savy..Hope someone can help.... |
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03-15-2006, 11:28 PM
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Well, since none of the options will work, I'd probably try to boot from the Windows XP cd and do a repair install. Just go into your BIOS and set the cd drive to boot first, save and exit. Then have your XP cd in the cd drive when it goes to boot up again and it should be able to boot from the cd. Go through the options until you find the one for doing a repair install.
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03-16-2006, 09:09 AM
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03-16-2006, 11:27 AM
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Thanks guys I will try all of the above..Hopefully it will work....
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03-16-2006, 12:23 PM
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03-16-2006, 12:44 PM
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Download and run Memtest86+ and WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for DOS. You can get either a boot floppy version or a bootable CD version.
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03-16-2006, 01:03 PM
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Thanks,this is getting over my head have to figure somthing else out...
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