Boot Up problems

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Jeff Houston

I have a computer here that is not wanting to boot up properly. It keeps
booting up to a screen that resembles the F8 screen but with less options.
It just asks me do I want to boot to Safe Mood,,Safe Mode with Network
support,,Last known good configuration and finally Normal Boot up. I think
there might be one other option I left out cant remember. But anyway it
keeps coming back to that screen no matter which option I chose. It will not
go past this screen. I tried to use the F8 when booting up and it did give
me the extended list of options and I tried several of them including
debugging mode but none worked. It always booted up to the screen I
mentioned and will not go past that. It is running WinXP with 128m ram and a
AMD 900 processor. I know, its older but it works. Or did till today!
 
I have XP running on another computer with 266mhz processor and 128 m ram.
It runs fine on both. My main computer has more punch to it but these two I
just play around with and they work fine with what I have. Until now anyway.
Your suggestion was going to be my next step if nobody else had a better
idea. And looks like nobody does. The bios is already set to boot from cd as
second option I do that to all my computers. Thanks for the input!
 
Jeff said:
I have a computer here that is not wanting to boot up properly. It keeps
booting up to a screen that resembles the F8 screen but with less options.
It just asks me do I want to boot to Safe Mood,,Safe Mode with Network
support,,Last known good configuration and finally Normal Boot up. I think
there might be one other option I left out cant remember. But anyway it
keeps coming back to that screen no matter which option I chose. It will not
go past this screen. I tried to use the F8 when booting up and it did give
me the extended list of options and I tried several of them including
debugging mode but none worked. It always booted up to the screen I
mentioned and will not go past that. It is running WinXP with 128m ram and a
AMD 900 processor. I know, its older but it works. Or did till today!
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If non of the options work than you'll need to set the bios to boot a
CD Rom first. Then do a repair install of Windows XP. I'm surprised it
worked at all before with only 128 megs of RAM.

Bob
 
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