ok my situations is
when i turn my pc it goes thru the normal procedure of starting up. all the way till you see the windows xp logo then it just goes away and the monitor is blank (a black screen). i tried the repair and that did not fix the problem. when i try to go open thru safe mode it tells me that windows xp setup cannot run under safemode. setup will restart now. can you help please i don't want to loose all my information on my hard drive so i really do not want to reformat and start all over. thanks

Can you get into the BIOS???(BY Hitting DELETE F6 F5 or what ever your comp screen says while its black before the XP screen appears after boot) hit refresh so you can see my post faster.

yes i am in the bios right now

ok can you see where it says boot from options choose boot from CD_ROM
Are you sure you did a REPAIR and not a RECOVERY
Heres a thread you should look at
CLIck HERE

Computer Stops Responding with a Black Screen When You Start Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314503

thank you so much that worked just booting up from the cd and reinstalling the os. not sure what caused the problem but thanks again.

If you ever make a system configuration change, and the damn thing won't boot up correctly when it loads windows, hit the f8 key when your PC is first booting. Run Windows in safe mode, and undo the configuration change, either by doing it manually, or system restore, than reboot.

I am trying to start my computer and it comes to the secreen that says windows xp and the cursor that runs from side to side stops and the whole things freezes, I can only reboot on safe mode, what can I do to fix it.

i tried to reinstall my windows xp pro by putting the disk in from the boot up.
It started installing and finished but now when i restart my computer it comes up with a blue screen and that say STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF9E4D640,0XC0000034,0X00000000,0X00000000) i know that the 0x0000007b means device error or something but i dont have a clue what to do.
Is there a way i can format my drive completly and reinstall windows again?

Use the Cd to format the drive. When you boot up with the Cd tell it to install a fresh copy of windows. It will ask you what partition. Just delete the partition that is there and it you want create a new one. It will then ask you is you want to format

i installed a new motherboard, and like the idiot i am, didn't put the driver cd in before i changed motherboards. well not exactly idiot, because the motherboard died. but now i'm running linux so i can't play games. any suggestions?