XP wont start up

[Marylou]

Worked fine yesterday. Today it was frozen. Rebooted and
now all I get is the Dell Screen, then a DOS type screen
with 5 different modes to start (none work) then I got a
disk check message where is found a bunch of bad links
and said it fixed them. Same screen (or another?) is
doing a physical memory dump.
I keep starting over and going through the same routine.
Sometimes windows xP logo comes up, but then shuts off!
I am writing this on second computer. Please help. Can't
even get into safe mode.
OH yes, a few days ago I added a switch so that both
computers could print directly to printer. I have
unplugged the printer, but still nothing works.
Any ideas? Throw it out the window maybe?
Thanks

 

[Darnko]

-----Original Message-----
Worked fine yesterday. Today it was frozen. Rebooted and
now all I get is the Dell Screen, then a DOS type screen
with 5 different modes to start (none work) then I got a
disk check message where is found a bunch of bad links
and said it fixed them. Same screen (or another?) is
doing a physical memory dump.
I keep starting over and going through the same routine.
Sometimes windows xP logo comes up, but then shuts off!
I am writing this on second computer. Please help. Can't
even get into safe mode.
OH yes, a few days ago I added a switch so that both
computers could print directly to printer. I have
unplugged the printer, but still nothing works.
Any ideas? Throw it out the window maybe?
Thanks
.
Thats why it's called Windows, oops there goes another,

you can try an Repair Install , not a full install all
your files should remain I never lost any with it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;315341