[nirvanaisland]

Near the middle of July of this year, I used my mom's computer and it worked just fine. Three days later, however, it told me that a hardware or software change may have caused the system (WIndows XP Pro) to not start successfully. It still has this problem five months later, even though I tried to get a startup floppy disk to try and reinstall the system. What it does is that when I tried every option (except for Safe Mode with Networking) is that it shows the Windows XP Pro loadup screen, then the monitor's screen turns blue and it has error codes or something of that nature. Then it restarts the system, and "loops" back and forth, doing this continuously. The logon screen for Windows XP won't even come up. My mom got this system--- a Dell Dimension XPS 450---from my best friend who is certified---over a year ago in September of 2005. What could be the problem?

[techie4fun]

This could be the result of a number of things. You could have software installed that's screwing up your os which isn't allowing XP to load normally, or you may have faulty hardware that needs to be replaced. It could be a virus, your hard drive, anything. I would recommend loading safe mode and checking the event viewer by going into control panel, administrative tools and clicking event viewer and look for any types of serious system errors. I would also suggest running in safe mode and altering your statup-up list by running the msconfig utility, (start menu, run, type in msconfig) and disable all programs that begin running when people log on and see if you can run windows doing that If its too advanced for you try taking the computer to your local computer geek store and see if someone can fix it for you.Good luck.

[dacohenz]

This may sound crazy, and may not be possible for you to do. I have had at least 10 PC's in the last couple of months going from the blue screen of death into a startup loop. What has worked for me a high majority if times, is to slave the hard drive into another computer running XP, and then run the check disk function clicking on automatically fix file system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. To get there, double click on my computer, right click on your slaved drive, the C drive is the main drive on the computer that you placed your other hard drive into. Go down to properties, click on the tools tab and then error checking.Another option if you do not have another pc to use, is to boot to a windows XP CD and choose the recovery option, and then run chkdisk /r.After that, about the only thing you can really do is reinstall the operating system.Davehttp://www.davescomputerserv.com