Repair

[Garfield]

my windows xp keeps going into a loop when trying to boot
up.A blue screen appears but it goes too fast for me to
see it.I try to do a repair however I do not get that
second repair option.Where do i go from here?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

How far does the boot sequence take your PC? After you reboot next time, keep hitting the F8 key to see if you can get to the screen that has the 'Last Known Good Configuration' option. If that doesn't work - again with hitting F8 - see if you can use System Restore from Safe Mode.

Failing those - and depending on which XP CD you have - you may be looking at a 'Repair' install, which will mean downloading and reinstalling the Windows Updates - unless you have them on CD.

The following articles by MVP Michael Stevens will help you:

"How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

and if need be:
"Clean Install"

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| my windows xp keeps going into a loop when trying to boot
| up.A blue screen appears but it goes too fast for me to
| see it.I try to do a repair however I do not get that
| second repair option.Where do i go from here?

 

[Gerald Thompson]

If this is a new computer/motherboard: Check the CPU bus
speed setting. Initially, the jumper (JP2) was set
to 'Auto' from the manufacturer (L4VXA2 P4 motherboard;
Celeron 2.66 GHz CPU, 400 MHz FSB) Changed it to '533'
(I'm running one stick of 512 MB DDR RAM. When I first
started XP and W2K installs, I first had to disable L1/L2
cache which of course is really slow, and after reboot re-
enabled it - still crashed. Resetting the mobo's bus speed
corrected the problem.
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