looping XP startup

[CarolF]

My xp home becames frozen on the screensaver right after I
shut down NAV scan as it has frozen for quite awhile. I
had to hardboot the screen saver freeze and now I am in a
loop. It goes through the first two screens which tell
about the computer and then it goes to a screen that says
sorry for the inconvenience. Start normal is highlighted
and it says arrow up or down for other options. It will
not arrow at all. Then is says windows will start in 30
seconds. The XP screen appears and a fatal blue screen
follows it in nano second time and it then tries to
reboot, this goes on and on. I can do delete and get into
setup. It shows that my cd is ahead of hard drive in boot
order. Beyond that I don't know what to do in setup. It
will not boot from the xp cd. I can't get into anything
with the f3 or f8 or r keys while it is starting to boot.
Can't get to safe mode or last good config. I am at a
total loss as to what to do here. Anyone have any
suggestions?

 

[DocTa]

Hi,
Some suggestions:

1- In SETUP Try Changing the Boot order to start from the
Harddrive first.

2- http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310396
"Windows XP Logon Screen Does Not Appear & the Computer
Continuously Restarts"


3- Go to: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545
"How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents
Windows XP from Starting

Look on this page for more links:
http://aumha.org/win5/kbstrtup.php
"KNOWLEDGE BASE LINKS STARTUP & BOOT LOG"

If none of those suggestions look like they will work try
this:
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Go to Bootdisk.com
On the: "BootDisks - PC Support - Essential Utilities" page
Click on the Link for: "WINDOWS AND DOS BOOT DISKS"
On the: "Boot Disks" page; in the "Windows XP Bootdisk
Sets" section:
Click the Link for: "WHATEVER VERSION OF XP YOU HAVE"
That'll take you where you can download (from M$) a file
so you can make a boot disk set that will allow you to
access the CD-ROM drive and reinstall XP.
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