I justr turned on my pc this morning and after being asked whether to boot from last known good or from normal, the screen goes blue/black and just stays like that and nothing happens hope its nothing serious. I don't have a backup cd.
View 1 Replieswhen I turned on my computer and got the blue screen of death, so I restarted my PC. Then a black screen came up saying "Windows could not start beacuse the following file is missing or corrupt : windowssystem32configsystem."
You can attempt to repair this file by putting the winxp cd in etc...
Now when i turn on my computer there is just a black screen showing, with nothing at all on it.
Any ideas?
I have a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 that i bought a couple of years ago. When i go to start up, it shows the windows xp loading screen. But it then flashes a black then blue screen for a split second. The computer shuts down then starts up again and does the same thing, over and over.
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