Moms computer wont boot

[Guest]

Hello ,

Moms computer wont boot. OEM V2 Premier with XP Home and SP2 installed. But
this computer did not come with an XP disk supplied. Only a 'Recovery
disk' which formats the whole system from
scratch. I didnt want to start her off from scratch so I tried running
recovery console from my XP Home disk with SP2
embedded. Ran chkdsk /r and computer will now boot to the screen with
scrolling
blue bar --but then comes up with a black screen with various errors such
as "The application DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll is not a valid
Windows image.Please check against your installation diskette".-- I click
'OK' and a similar message pops up and I click 'OK' and the computer reboots
into a loop like this . At one time I did see a blue screen
saying 'Bad checksum' or something similar. I saw various posts that refer to
'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' etc. Are these something I need to try? Could there be
a virus that changed some BIOS settings? Or should i just go out and buy her
a
real version of XP ?(The version she has is 'real'- with a product key
sticker on the tower,but the 'recovery disk' is not a real XP Home disk-just
some sort of recovery thing called 'Image-It' v3.0) Thankyou for your
time. Deano
PS. ANY response will be greatley apprieciated.

 

[Guest]

dosn't sound good.i had a pc 9 mos old did this.the mother board was
bad.how old is pc? is it still under warenty?will store do anything FOR FREE
? u could get windows full install disk and if it dosn't work try flashing
the bios.u may have to buy new pc without an os then install the full install
of windows u just bought.when u put ur full install of windows on ur current
pc it might start.DON"T rush to actavat windows!(with microsoft) becase pc
might only work a day or 2 then u'll have trouble moveing windows to new pc
microsoft will think ur installing on everybodys pc.let ur pc work for 20
days before actavating.

 

[Guest]

Do you have a set of XP boot disks made (floppy)? If so use them to boot and
install if not go here scroll to what you need :
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm won't cost you a dime just a little
time.