Hey people Something strange happened to my home PC a couple of weeks back, I have been using it for about 9 months or so and have not upgraded any hardware, not played around inside or anything. It has not been connected to the internet for months and iI have NOT installed any software on it for a few months either. So, basically I was going about my business using the PC, everything was as normal, when suddenly it blue screened on me then reset itself. Now every time I turn it on I am presented with the screen which asks me to choose from the following options if I want to load windows:

safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode command prompt
last known good configuration.
start windows normally.

None of these options work, and if for instance I choose, safe mode/last known good or start normally, it brings up the XP boot/loading screen but as soon as that fades away it quickly flashes to a bluescreen that I dont have time to read before resetting and starting the whole process again.

I cant even get a command prompt.

Any ideas? :cry:

reinstall windows...

It could be Overheating ,make sure that the back fan in the power supply is running when you bootup,open case and make sure that l fans are not plugged with dirt ,leave the case cove off and try booting again.

If it's a corruption of the operating system, you can try to facilitate a repair by booting into rescue mode from the Windows installation CD and seeing if you can do an automatic repair.

if windows is the problem i would just reinstall it... it's alot faster then trying to repair it
a fresh windows works better anyway

Okay, I hadn't actually tried to reinstall via XP disk yet :o , so I guess that's my next avenue... thanks!

If you dont want to relaod windows and want want to try to get your sys back... you can......

1. Boot To the Xp Cd
2. Go to recovery console
3. Then try uninstalling service pack 2 if you have it by typing out this command at the recovery console command line: "cd $ntservicepackuninstall$\spuninst" and then type this command "batch spuninst.txt" and then type "exit" that wil restart and hope everything is fine.
4. If not try doing chkdsk by typing "chkdsk /r" at the recovery console.
5. Then if that fails i would say try a repair install but if you cant do that then i would say do an clean install. and if that fails then think about a hard drive error.

Thanks before hand for the help. I am in a bind with my school project which is due this Saturday (nov 4) and my CPU won't start. If I do a fresh installation of Windows XP Pro, will I loose all my software and files I have in my drive? or the ability to access them?

What command can I enter in the c:\ prompt to load a previous restore point that worked? Is there such a thing?

Thanks

Thanks, I did a chkdsk /r from the restore console and, while it took all night long to complete the check, in the morning I rebooted the sys and it worked! Thanks to those who had previously posted this option. It worked!