booting

[jeem]

Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last
night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it
up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It
fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no
idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up.

It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and
over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my
desktop again?

 

[nass]

Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last
night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it
up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It
fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no
idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up.

It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and
over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my
desktop again?

It could be an overheated system issue or the Game notcompatible with your
your machine.
Try this:
When/while machine starting press F8 til you get the boot up options and
select Safe Mode. In safe mode try system restore and see if that will help
resolve the issue.
If it didn't then take the machine to your local repair shop for them to
look at an dmay be have an idea after testing your HDD if it going bad or is
it overheating issue and the CPU Thermal component need to repalced with a
new one.
HTH,
nass

 

[jeem]

Thanks but it looks like it'll have to go in.

 

[Galen]

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Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last
night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started
it
up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk.
It
fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before
no
idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up.

It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and
over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my
desktop again?

Head to Safe Mode while booting and restore to an earlier date. I'd try to
start there.

Safe Mode:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/safemode.html


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