computer purgatory, help!

[darren99999]

i decided to upgrade my desktop to winxp. everything was loading fine until is froze 34 minutes from completion. Now, when I reboot, the computer goes straight back to loading win xp. I tried loading a boot disk, but it bypasses the floppy drive and when i do not replace the xp cd, it reboots on its own, and starts reloading win xp only to freeze at the same point.

i completed a low-level format in the bios setup, but that did nothing. the drive is order is a,c,scsi. do i need to rearrange the master/slave order? there is only one hard drive.

how can i re-boot my computer!!

thanks, darren

ps. always good to have a functioning computer before messing with another!

[Nuclear Krusader]

Double post:

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?threadid=88626