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All right, not a battery problem at all, when I turn it on, I recieve "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did now start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." I am then given options of Safe mode (which displays flooding text and freezes) or to start it normally, which, when pressed, gets me to the Windows XP loading screen, with the quad-colored windows emblem. 10 seconds later, on that emblem, it flashes a Blue screen much too fast to read or hardly recognize, and shoots me back to the beginning, as if I had restarted it. I haven't touched any hardware or software in a long time, any ideas?

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reported Safe Mode filling the screen and freezing, then a very brief Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) at the XP splash before an automatic restart. suggested malware and asked about repair media; those are possible, but the symptom set (Safe Mode instability + instant BSOD) more often points to failing RAM or disk corruption than a simple Trojan. Priority: preserve data first, then run hardware diagnostics, then attempt targeted repairs.

Rescue files before repair attempts. Boot a separate environment (Live Linux or a Windows PE image) and copy the NTFS data to an external USB drive. Useful rescue images: or SystemRescue. If the machine will not boot removable media, remove the drive and attach it to another computer in a USB enclosure to copy important files.

Run memory and disk health tests from the rescue environment. Use Memtest86 for RAM (download and boot from USB): Memtest86. Check drive SMART data with smartmontools; example commands (run as root on the rescue system):

smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl -t long /dev/sda

(Adjust /dev/sda to the correct device.)

If hardware tests report errors, replace the failing part and retry. If tests are clean, capture the BSOD STOP code (photograph the screen so the code/driver name can be read) and use that code to research the failing driver/module. For deeper repair options (Recovery Console, chkdsk, etc.) see Microsofts description of the Recovery Console for Windows XP: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/314058/description-of-the-recovery-console-in-windows-xp. If repairs fail or the drive is badly corrupted, restore from backup or perform a clean install after data recovery.

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seems like a trojan problem. as for the quick blue screen, it's because your pc is set to restart when it crash this can be turned off.

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What should I do?

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if u cannot reboot in either safe or normal mode u would have to do a clean install or use restore cd. do u have a winXP cd or restore cd that came with your pc.

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How inconvenient, I had quite a few files on there. Ah well, I now have a CD to find, haha. Thanks for the advice. ^^ ; ;

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if u have the xp cd (bootable) try fixing the boot record ( doubt thats it) but worth a try to at least get u into the system , if even by safe mode.

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