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Message: [QUOTE="malibumom, post: 13038881"] Ok, about two weeks ago my computer started up normally, crashed in a matter of minutes and then the black screen with the start up options comes up. After many attempts to start in safe mode, last known good configuration or normally, each time with the computer crashing and restarting always coming to the black screen. I have no idea what makes it finally boot but once it does it seems to be okay until it is shut down and then turned back on. If I choose the safe mode a list of different drivers comes up. Sometimes it restarts over and over again and sometimes it freezes. If I try start normally, it will restart over and over and then I get the message that the file WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. I have been having problems with the automatic updates but was able to get it to work two days ago and installed a critical Net 3.5 update. Yesterday it started up perfectly and there was no problem the whole day. This morning, back to the same. I don't have a WINDOWS XP CD as the system was pre-installed. The recovery CD I have won't start the computer, even though I set the BIOS for a boot from CD. Any ideas? [/QUOTE]