Richard said:
Rock,
There is a line that says technical information.
STOP OXOOOOOOOA (OXOOOOOOBO, OXOOOOOOO2, OXOOOOOOOO,
OX804EE357)
This is all there is besides what I tried to spell out in the initial
posting.
Those "O"s are actually "0"s (zero). Malke gave you link to a site where
you can start your troubleshooting. Also do a Google search on that
specific error. It normally indicates a problem with a hardware driver.
Did you install any new hardware, update any drivers, get any updates from
windows update that were drivers? Will it boot into safe mode or safe mode
with command prompt? If so use Device Manager to roll back the changed
driver. Have you tried last known good configuration?
If none of this helps, then try a repair install, but is there a full and
complete backup of important data? If not do that first. Here are some
options.
1. Take the drive out of the computer and install it as a slave drive in
another Windows XP or 2000 computer. It should read the drive ok, so you can
copy the data.
2. Create a bootable Bart's PE disk, boot from that, then copy the data to
external USB drive or flash drive.
3. Download a bootable Linux distro called Knoppix. Create a bootable CD
from that, boot from it, and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, or
if the computer has two CD drives, one of which is a burner, then use the
k3b burning program on the Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.
4. Take it to a competent computer tech to backup the data
Here is a link on how to do a repair install.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
The last resort is a clean install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
I suggest that for the future you look into purchasing a drive imaging
program such as Acronis True Image Home, version 10, and an external hard
drive (connect it to the computer via USB, Firewire or eSata). You can buy
a high capacity EIDE drive in a white box kit for less than $90 and external
drive enclosures are in the $20 range (much cheaper than a preassembled
external hard drive). With this you can image the system drives to the
external drive on a regular basis. Then is something damages the
installation, as now, just restore a recent image (in about an hour), and
you're up and running. It is low cost insurance and great for backing up
data.