Faulty Boot-up

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SteveG

I have a older model Gateway 600YGR laptop with XP Pro-SP2 on it. About a
year ago, i shut it down and put in on a shelf, as I went to purchase a newer
laptop that came with Vista, but that's another story.
A friend called this week annd told me he was looking for a used laptop. I
told him I had this one and I'd go through it over the weekend to tak my
personal stuff off and then give it to him.
I went to boot it up yesterday. There is only one user, "Administrator"
registered, and that is me. I entered my password which it didn't recognize.
I went to my listing in Outlook and verified the correct password for that
computer, as also happened when I verified it in the data files of my
password security program. Yet no matter how I typed the word, it was never
accepted.
I looked all over for my original "operating "System" disc from the laptop,
but of course, when you need it you can't find it. But by trying to
experiment with the OS disc for another computer, and having set the BIOS to
boot from the CD/DVD drive first, it doesn't even see the cd/DCD drive at
all. I even tried booting into the Safe Zone and to the C: prompt, bit it
fails to do that, and each and every time, boots to the normal Windows
Sign-In window asking me for my password, that I know is correct, yet it will
not accept. What to do? What to do?
Thanks for any advice out there - Honestly!
SteveG
 
Hi steve

The only thing I could say is reset your bios to default and check the boot
priority again. Remove the battery and check your cdrom is fitted correctly
(make sure its pushed in)
Have you managed to boot into safe mode?
Have you found any bios updates relating to the laptop before gateway
dissapeared?
The only problem having the admin as a user it that when you forget your
password you get in a loop with no way out except to rebuild using the
original disks or buy a copy of Xp and rebuild from scratch.

It might cost more than the machine is worth to fix it if you can't find the
original disks or have a oem xp knocking around
 
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