I recently installed a PC game (Spore) on the comp and it made the comp run
buggy immediately after it was installed, particularly keeping us from
restarting the computer most of the time (the comp would either restart at
splash screen or I would have to select "Load with last workable
configurations")

Since then the comp crashed today and suddenly the comp just continuously
restarted at the Windows splash screen and wouldn't give me the Load with
Last... option. So I restarted trying to open with DOS mode to do a chkdsk (I
think I clicked F7 or F8 I think at the load screen) and I think it asked me
what my primary hard drive was. It game me an option of a named drive and
"Other." I picked the named one.

Now my current problem: Upon turning the comp on, the comp only loads a blue
screen and the mouse and that's it. I have found through trial and error that
I can press F2 during the load screen to bring up BIOS and F11 to bring up
this whole "what's in the A: drive" thing (I think it's called the "Setup"
screen).

Any help would be appreciated, and I'll try to answer any questions or
specifics if it helps. I have Windows XP, but I'm writing this on a friend's
PC cuz mine won't do anything but show blue and the mouse. I feel like I have
somehow made a secondary hard drive my primary or something, I dunno. Please
help, I'm hopeless and afraid I'm just making things worst

Start in Safe Mode and remove the game.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Blue Screen wrote:
> I recently installed a PC game (Spore) on the comp and it made the comp run
> buggy immediately after it was installed, particularly keeping us from
> restarting the computer most of the time (the comp would either restart at
> splash screen or I would have to select "Load with last workable
> configurations")
>
> Since then the comp crashed today and suddenly the comp just continuously
> restarted at the Windows splash screen and wouldn't give me the Load with
> Last... option. So I restarted trying to open with DOS mode to do a chkdsk (I
> think I clicked F7 or F8 I think at the load screen) and I think it asked me
> what my primary hard drive was. It game me an option of a named drive and
> "Other." I picked the named one.
>
> Now my current problem: Upon turning the comp on, the comp only loads a blue
> screen and the mouse and that's it. I have found through trial and error that
> I can press F2 during the load screen to bring up BIOS and F11 to bring up
> this whole "what's in the A: drive" thing (I think it's called the "Setup"
> screen).
>
> Any help would be appreciated, and I'll try to answer any questions or
> specifics if it helps. I have Windows XP, but I'm writing this on a friend's
> PC cuz mine won't do anything but show blue and the mouse. I feel like I have
> somehow made a secondary hard drive my primary or something, I dunno. Please
> help, I'm hopeless and afraid I'm just making things worst