xp booting to black screen

[Guest]

This just started out of the blue. Have a HP Pavilion ze5730us notebook and
when it is tuned on it goes through the bios and xp logo screen and then goes
black. Never does anything more. Can do nothing with keyboard or mouse.
When trying to boot to safe mode it locks up part way through the boot.
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Galen]

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This just started out of the blue. Have a HP Pavilion ze5730us
notebook and when it is tuned on it goes through the bios and xp logo
screen and then goes black. Never does anything more. Can do
nothing with keyboard or mouse. When trying to boot to safe mode it
locks up part way through the boot. Anyone have any ideas?

Yup. When one can't get into the OS and hasn't more specific errors that can
be fixed in the Recovery Console then a repair installation is generally
considered the best option.

Repair Installation of XP:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Is it under warranty? Sounds like a hard drive failure.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

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