Login screen not coming up

[leppert]

When booting XP normally, it just goes to blank blue screen without
displaying the friendly GUI welcome screen or anything else with an
hour glass, no disk activity, etc.

When booting into safe mode, login screen does come up but displays
"Windows is starting up..." indefinatly without any choice of user.

When booting with last known good config, same result as normal with
blank blue background and hour glass.

When booting in debug mode, Administrator user is displayed but when
clicking on it, it does nothing.

Is there any way to fix this situation without a full reinstall of XP?
This problem occured when the system was booted, I was in the middle of
logging in and got a BSOD. I had been receiving random BSODs due to bad
memory (since replaced), but I think something (registery/userinit?)
may have gotten damaged during the failed login attempt.

In the case the XP CD is required, would a recovery install replace the
entire registry or require me to reinstall any software? I really DON'T
want to do that.

Any thoughts??

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Rock]

When booting XP normally, it just goes to blank blue screen without
displaying the friendly GUI welcome screen or anything else with an
hour glass, no disk activity, etc.

When booting into safe mode, login screen does come up but displays
"Windows is starting up..." indefinatly without any choice of user.

When booting with last known good config, same result as normal with
blank blue background and hour glass.

When booting in debug mode, Administrator user is displayed but when
clicking on it, it does nothing.

Is there any way to fix this situation without a full reinstall of XP?
This problem occured when the system was booted, I was in the middle of
logging in and got a BSOD. I had been receiving random BSODs due to bad
memory (since replaced), but I think something (registery/userinit?)
may have gotten damaged during the failed login attempt.

In the case the XP CD is required, would a recovery install replace the
entire registry or require me to reinstall any software? I really DON'T
want to do that.

Any thoughts??

Thanks,

Jon

Try a repair install. See this link.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Installed programs and data should be left intact, however if you don't
have a full and complete backup it would be wise to first backup such
data by temporarily installing the drive in another XP or win2000
computer as a slave drive and copying the important data.