hdd??

[bookermorgan]

hello, one of the computers here crashed and now will not boot windows xp. the system will post but not start up windows xp? any help??

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

So what does it do?

Are you getting any error messages?

Have you tried starting in Safe Mode?

Is this a work or personal system?

Murray

[bookermorgan]

personal system being used for work at the moment. cannot get into safe mode, it wont get that far. no error messages at all it just sits on a black screen

[bookermorgan]

bought from e-z-tech on moose jaw

[Murray S.]

So, all you get after the POST screen is nothing?

Have you tried getting into the boot options - press F10 or F8 as the system is booting up?

Murray

[bookermorgan]

neither will yield any results.
if i want to get into bios, i can. if i want to get into the boot sequence, i can but i cannot select anything.

[Murray S.]

Originally Posted by bookermorgan

if i want to get into the boot sequence, i can but i cannot select anything.

The keyboard doesn't work here either or nothing you select - Last known good configuration, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking - works or starts?

Do you have a floppy drive on this system?

Murray

[bookermorgan]

oh no the keyboard works fine, as it will work in the bios. this machine does not have a floppy drive.

[bookermorgan]

sorry, im driving it down to tech squad. i will let ya know how it goes!

[Murray S.]

If you have the install cd (XP I assume), have you tried booting into Recovery Console and running a chkdsk /r command? Or running the Repair option?

Murray

[bookermorgan]

turned out to be a hdd failure. thats after a $550 tech bill....
Thanks for the help anyway!