Windows XP Pro won't boot up past the spalsh screen...HELP!!

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I have an Athlon XP 2000+ pc with an ASUS A7-133-C MoBo.

It has been running Windows XP Pro perfectly until Friday
night. I tried to boot up and it went through the POST
with no problems and into XP. It got to the splash screen
and then stayed there (the light blue screen with dark
blue borders above and below and the Windows XP logo on
it).

I tried to re-boot to safe mode and selected "Last Known
Good Configuration" and it reported that it had
successfully retrieved the config and then proceeded to
boot up to the exact same place as before (I even let it
sit for 30 minutes to see if it WOULD proceed but it did
not).

Next I tried booting up in Safe Mode by itself. It went
through a long list of items and then displayed a screen
showing "safe mode" on all four corners, followed by the
same splash screen as before (except the colors and
object were clearly of a lower quality), and THERE IT
SAT. I let it stay there for almost an hour but it did
not move from that screen.

While on that screen, the keyboard does not do anything
(ctrl-alt-delete doesn't call anything up, etc), but the
mouse cursor is there and can be moved around (clicking
either left or right or scroll wheel rotating or pressing
doesn't do anything either; I have to press re-set to
restart the PC.)

Ihave also tried "Debugging Mode", "Reboot" and "Safe
Mode with command Prompt" all with the same result.

The PC will go into BIOS mode with no problem. I don't
have a Stratup Disk (and can find no data on how to make
one: I was hoping it would offer a "System Restore"
function like the ME Startup Disk does), so I don't know
if that would work.

My resources are:

1. A Laptop running XP Home edition (through which I
can't find anyway to make a startup disk - and I don't
know if an XP Home disk would work on an XP Pro machine
anyway),
2. A desktop running windows ME,
3. My willingness to try anything as long as I can find
the data on HOW to do it.

Can anyone out there help me?

PS: I've also tried searching the knowledge base, but
can't seem to find anything that mentions this unless I
just don't know how to look for it....
 
Just a guess, but you may have some kind of disk corruption issue.
If the normal boot sequence doesn't finish, then something is
not loading or is corrupted (Registry Hive). If you have a
Windows XP CD disk, you can boot to it and choose the
Recovery Console (Dos looking prompt). When the Boot
completes type CHKDSK C: \R This will run a disk diagnostics &
repair any corrupted files/folders.
When an XP install does not boot to any of the minimal setups
(Safe Mode) then something of a serious sort is going on.
You didn't mention adding any new Hardware or software, so
that would account for your problem. If Chkdsk doesn't resolve
the problem, you may be faced with a "Repair" install.
 
Commiseration only. I am having a very similar problem
today. Recognized all your valiant attempts and timeline.

If you find a fix, I'd really appreciate any insight, and
if I do too, I'll email you.

Kinda ruins the weekend, doesn't it.

William
 
Byl said:
The PC will go into BIOS mode with no problem. I don't
have a Stratup Disk (and can find no data on how to make
one: I was hoping it would offer a "System Restore"
function like the ME Startup Disk does), so I don't know
if that would work.
Click to expand...

A further thought - This *might* be recoverable by the method given in
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;307545

Normally BTW XP is repaired by booting the CD direct. Only if this is
not possible do you need the set of six floppies you can download at
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994
 
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