Windows wont boot

[solivone]

as the title suggests everytime i turn on my computer it shows the windows logo but then restarts everything and it will keep doing this until i turn the whole thing off,

i have tried using safe mode and the windows config thing but they didnt work
i have not installed an applications or programs lately either

this only happend today when there was a power cut and then this started to happen

so if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated

[Kov-Ice]

Do you have your Windows installation CD? If so, you can insert and boot to the CD. From there, the following directions can be followed:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Hopefully it's a software issue and this helps.

[liambl]

Have you tried physically unplugging the PC from the wal outlet for about 15 minutes? If that doesn't work, try resetting the BIOS.

[solivone]

i've tried re-setting the bios and trying safe mode but they both dont work,
i've unplugged it from the wall out-let for at least a day and still nothing happens,
my brother checked it and he said that my hard-drive is perfectly fine (phew), but he also dosnt know why my computer wont turn on??

[glc]

If it's XP SP2, press F8 to get the boot menu and choose "disable restart on error" - it should bluescreen instead of restarting and you can read the bluescreen for clues.

[solivone]

i did the blue screen and it just says uninstall stuff

but i cant get in my computer so .... im lost again

[Kov-Ice]

Can you write down and then post the exact error message that is found on the blue screen? That may give us a starting point.

[solivone]

sorry about that,

" A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

if this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. if this screen appears again, follow these steps :

disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup utilities. check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive ccorruption, and then restart your coputer.

Technical information :

*** STOP: 0X00000024 (0x00190203, 0X86F004C0, 0XC0000102, 0X00000000) "

[solivone]

So..... i'm guessing no one knows what to do then??

Read this: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic5352.html

Here's one more to try if that didn't help. http://www.geekswhoknow.com/articles...error-code.htm

[solivone]

hey thanks for the links

i was wondering for this link
http://www.geekswhoknow.com/articles...error-code.htm

can you use a CD instead, because i dont have a floppy drive in the computer thats broken??

[glc]

Get a floppy drive, they are dirt cheap and you do not have to permanently install it in your case. Just pop the side off the case and hook it up and let it hang.

[Dia]

When you get to a dos prompt using that A drive start up floppy exe you need to see if yuo can use it like recovery console and copy a fresh uncorrupted ntldr from your windows disk to overwrite the one you have. Doing a chkdsk repair I doubt is going to fix a boot file problem thats more of a fix a bad sector/check a drive utility. Fixmbr might do something for your boot up but best bet its the ntldr file being corrupted, or missing.

[Dia]

Id like to fix something about my previous post. Go straight to the recovery console and skip this other stuff for a min.

Pop in the windows CD and boot to you cd drive, let windows start. When you get to the option to make a selection select R for repair. You should then ask for the recovery console which will look something similar to command prompt or dos. When it asks which installation you want to go to press 1 and then enter. You should now be asked to enter your admin password. After all that you should now be at a c:\windows> prompt. If you can make it that far then your disk isnt completely destroyed but are just missing boot up files such as ntldr, ntdetect.com or a boot.ini. Copy these from the windows CD using command prompt commands and then try and boot.

This would explain why you cant get into safe mode. Even though safe mode is designed to prevent conflicting drivers, malious software etc etc from loading by using defualt windows drivers and configurations it still needs system files to run. If your system files are corrupted or missing it wont work, in which you would result in using a command prompt interface since the GUI cannot load.