PC not booting Up

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Hello! I am new using this site. Hopefully someone can help me on this.
I am working on a pc that has XP OS, when you turn on the PC everything
starts normal but I get a black screen and a blinking cursor and that
is it. At first it was saying that the OS was not found, so I went
ahead and inserted the recovery cd for it, but nothing. This PC is at
work, so I have no idea what could have happened to the system in order
for it to stop working. Please help...thank you!
 
Get you access the start up choices? Usually you can get at this by tapping
the F8 key or ESC key during the boot process. You could then try using the
"last known good configuration" or "Safe Mode" choice to see if you can get
into either. If you have or can borrow an XP disk then you could insert that
and try to boot. The disk is bootable so you should see a screen with "hit
any key to boot from CD" or something to that effect down the bottom. Do that
and see if it boots to the desktop. If you have an XP CD then you could get
into the recovery console and run the check disk utility which may clear any
bad flag that is causing this black window. Sometimes there is a hidden
warning message behind that black window and the system is waiting for you
response to it and you can't respond as you don't see it. This has been known
to happen so getting into the recovery console and typing
chkdsk /r
will run the full 5 scans and recover any bad sectors as well as remove the
flag that maybe causing you the problem. Post back if you need more. TTFN.
 
First thing to try is a restore.... reboot tapping F8 every couple o
seconds until screen come up.... then select restore or 'las
configuration that worked'

Another thing you may try from safe mode.... go to My Computer
clicking Local disc (Hard drive) then click it's properties, in th
New window click Tools tab (2nd from top left), in the new Erro
Checking window clicking the first option 'Check Now' and then tic
by clicking the two boxes, one says 'Check for Sytem file errors''an
the other say 'Check and repair bad segments', click start an
reboot

This operation may take quite awhile, here we are checking for fil
system errors and checking the disc for bad segments. The faul
could be anything from a virus to a faulty hard drive.

One thing you can do is to try another hard drive with any OS on....
to see if it tries to boot, this will confirm one or the other

Dav
 
I have opened up the pc and unplugged here and there and let it sit
open for a while. Then I plugged everything up again and plugged the
power to it and the pc came on.
No, I couldn't get to the f11 to get to the setup. I couldn't do
anything with it. But it is back up and running and I am doing some
configurations to it.
I did get a message that the hard drive is bad. So I will have to
replace it.
thank you for your help. I will be coming back for more help on
anything else.
Thanks! - Isabel
 
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