Can't Boot From Cd - Dirve Screen Flicker
May 26, 2007
I'm trying to reinstall my Win XP and so to format my hard disk to have that fresh start. Ive configured my boot sequence to boot first on CD. but when I restart my computer every things still the same. I cannot find that key to press to boot from cd or anything at all. it just open to windows. ive tried to press F12 and F8 in an attempt that this could be it. but still nothing. when I continue to windows without taking the installer off the drive my screen would flicker.
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Jun 22, 2005
I have a Sony Vaio laptop, approximately 3-4 years old. The screen has begun to flicker, looks like the backlighting is turning on and off
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Apr 30, 2007
I currently have Windows XP Home and I would like to simply install my current hard drive into the new system. But something tells me it's not that easy.I'm going from an old Pentium 4 2.4 to a E6600. New mobo, new everything essentially. But I don't want to have to reinstall everything on the new Hard Drive.If I could,I would like to install my current hard drive into the new system, and then, once that is done, transfer my files onto the new hard drive. BUT will the new system boot up with XP if I install my hard drive in it? Will it go bonkers with all the new components?
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Oct 28, 2008
its my previously-formatted HP Pavilion dv5201tx! The problem is as the title above. I can go into safe mode. I've used system restore twice. And in Documents and Settings folder I noticed it has:
Administrator
Administrator.computer description name
Administrator.computer description name.000
username1
username2
Is it creating more user folders? At some point Administrator.computer description name.000 wasn't there. Corrupted registry hive? I'm not sure! Restarted many times, used Last known good configuration, and it's still black after the boot screen. Please help!
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Nov 23, 2009
I have a Windows XP Professional Edition and i incurred a spyware virus on my PC, so i made a dumb decision by running MSCONFIG and changing my SAFEBOOT option, I did this because previously I couldn't even get into Safe Mode, it would load the files on the screen.
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Jul 25, 2008
Recently I was playing a game when my computer froze up, when I restarted it, it froze every time on the Windows XP bootscreen. It boots fine in Safe mode with networking. (I'm typing this post on this computer)
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Oct 26, 2007
On boot sequence, PC hangs on Windows boot screen - with the good old progress bar churning along for eternity. It just stays there. It is possible to boot into safe mode, safe mode with networking, etc. but never boots up normally. 'Last Known Good..." does not help at all.
I have tried 'repairing' XP using the recovery console (deleting the boot.ini file, then BOOTCFG /REBUILD and then FIXBOOT) to no avail. Do not know where in the boot process it is getting hung up and not totally sure how to determine that.Using Windows XP Media Center Edition with SP2. Plenty of RAM and disk space.
Had this problem once in the past and it seemed to self correct after about 50 reboots.
Does this sound like a re-install of XP is required or are there any other options that might work?
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Nov 30, 2006
When I boot WinXP it goes to the screen that asks you to select which use to log in as. I am the only user on my PC. Is there a way to get rid of that so Windows will just boot up automatically?
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Jan 19, 2007
My laptop has started to freeze at times,then the screen would blackout then appear with a black screen with a blue box inthe middle giving BOOT DEVICE OPTIONS Hard Disk Drive, CD-ROM/DVD, Floppy Disk Drive, LAN Boot it froze blacked out and now keeps going to this option page ,where as before if you turn off then on it rectified itself.
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Jul 17, 2005
when 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?
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Jun 20, 2008
When i turn on,first Windows screen appears,then a blue screen blinks,then hp screen,then a blank page with cursor on the top left,then a screen with the message"we apologise for the inconvinience but Windows did not start successfully.there was a hardware or software problem.I tried to run it in Safe mode, Windows normally,last known configuration but no luck......Then someone suggested to Get into the Recovery Console by making a Recovery CD with ISO image but the machine is not responding to any of it.Is it with CD/DVD ROM drive or any major hardware problem???...I ran a self hard drive test and it seemed fine
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Nov 12, 2009
Encountered a Blue Screen of Death error. The error stated that I should run Chkdsk and then proceeds to restart and bring me to the Windows boot selection screen (safe mode, last known good configuration, normally). No matter which choice I pick, it always leads to the BSOD then restarts. Since this is getting me nowhere fast, I want to just format and reinstall windows. I do not have my recovery CDs, and when I enter the BIOS to change the boot sequence I cannot change it so the CD drive is above the hard drive in priority. The reason it gives me in the bios is that "All items on this menu cannot be modified in user mode. If any items require changes, please consult your system supervisor. Any ideas on how I can boot off the cd and reinstall windows from scratch?
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Feb 16, 2006
My computer is stuck on the boot screen, the mouse is lit up as to be working the keyboard flashed its lights as it always does when you boot but then everything seems to stop there. the screen is stuck on the boot screen the keyboard doesnt seem to work (lights are gone and wont come back on.) the lights on the back of the computer (the yellow and green ones) are all yellow but one. The C light is green. they are a steady color. Not blinking. A,B,D are all yellow.
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Jul 15, 2007
my computer would give me a few problems while booting up. I would start the computer, it would run through BIOS, run through the Windows loading screen, and after that it would run the CHKDSK to make sure my disks are fine. CHKDSK doesn't work, it just freezes right before checking the disks, so I restart and generally it will boot up. Most of the time it would boot up perfectly, but rarely would it go to the xp loading screen and then flicker as if it as going to go to the windows login screen but wouldn't. The screen would just stay black and I'd have to restart.
Next time, generally it would work perfect.So this brings me to the current day. After the windows xp loading screen, it goes black. The computer is on, but I don't see any activity for the HDD via the LED. SO i go into safe mode, i finally get CHKDSK to run, I had to really mess with some stuff to get that working. Windows says the volume is fine, and the only way I can boot my PC is in safe mode, but even that will freeze sometimes while loading some of the files.
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Aug 9, 2010
it all started when I ran Nod32 antivirus. I ran it because I had some viruses on my computer that I wanted to get rid of. After the scan there were 180 some detected objects that were quarantined or deleted. So then I restart my computer and after the windows xp logo there is just a black screen with no cursor. And after awhile the computer will just restart and try booting up again. I tried going into safe mode and safe mode with command prompt but I still get a black screen with no cursor. The last known good configuration doesn't work either. I'm pretty frustrated because I did nothing wrong. I am also having a feeling that nod32 might have quarantined some infected files that are essential for Windows Xp to boot. I also do not have any windows xp disks with me how to fix this?
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Jan 15, 2007
When I turned my computer on this morning it starts up but when it gets to the boot screen it gives me a blue screen but my computer instantaniously restarts so i have no idea what it said. What should I do I'm using ERD Commander 2005 and that let me boot into my computer but its limited I've never used ERD Commander before I've tryed a few things but nothing has worked yet
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Jan 25, 2007
When ever i start up windows it get threw the Windows boot screen then whens it suppose to come to the logon screen i see only black for no matter how long i leave it on!, i can still move the mouse, and thats all that happens i have a operating system cd, and if i got to repair windows what config do i type?
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May 15, 2006
My pc was running fine when it just started beeping like a warning klaxon. Rebooting didn't help, but rebooting into safe mode then normal mode did. Then 1 hour later while running spysweeper, I stopped the scan early because it was taking too long. It detected 1 adware and 1 trojan, but the log said the trojan (ruin) could not be quarantined and some threat was still in memory, despite a problem free pc except for the beeping which I thot was resolved. After exiting spysweeper
my pc locked up and could not be turned off manually, so I unplugged the cord in back. Then I got a blue screen after it tried rebooting. The bootup started normally, but then a blue screen read as follows, more or less-If this is the first time you are seeing this message reboot your pc. Otherwise check for viruses, remove any new hard drives or hard drive controllers. or refer to your startup manual. I can't even boot in safe mode.
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Mar 28, 2007
When I switch on my computer it loads to the windows XP welcome screen then changes to a blue screen. I can't read what information is on that blue screen as the computer re-boots and starts the cycle again. I've tried starting in "safe mode" and "last good figuration that worked".
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Jul 23, 2005
This screen came up after i deleted Nero through ad/delete and restarted my pc ,and i cannot get it to boot from cdrom despite changing the boot up sequence in BIOS.
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Sep 6, 2007
I am sorry if I sound completely ignorant,but I need help.I have a Dell Isprion 8600 Laptop with Windows Xp, service pack 2.For 6 months now I have a screen pop up after boot up that read:The application or dll c:windowswinmm.dll is not a valid windows image please check this against your installation diskette.I had a friend tell me to insert the dick that came with computer and that it should fix any errors in windows.Well when I do this, it tells me I have a newer version and it work work basically.I have read some of the forums, but get confused wit some of the lingo terminology computer language.I hope there is someone out there that can help me.I started to mess with ms-config and research what each startup program was before unchecking any.The only one that I unchecked came back as a worm.Also the volume key does not work anymore, when you try to mute or turn the volume up or down,the volume toolbar pops up, but nothing happens. Not sure if this can be fixed either.
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May 27, 2007
I was one of the many millions of Vista Beta testers out there, dual-booting on my wife's machine with XP Pro and Vista.
After awhile, I really got tired of Vista and I think it's a POS, so I stopped running it. When I installed the OS, I had it on its own partition on the HDD. Xp, naturally, was on a partition of its own as well.
What I did was to delete the Vista partition. But when I boot the system, I still see the "Boot into Vista or XP" screen
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Oct 21, 2005
I set a new Boot Screen and Welcome Screen for Windows XP, then I uninstalled the program I used to set the new screens, and now I'm left with the new Windows XP Welcome Screen and the Boot Screen. How do I reset the Welcome and Boot Screen back into there origional state they were in ?
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Oct 28, 2007
I did a clone backup of my old installation of windows xp (Home Ed.) to a new hard drive, after that, I disconnected the old hd and attempted to fix windows to no avail... I got frustrated after many attempts and decided to do a clean install (on the new H.D.). Windows setup perfectly... Today I tried to boot up with the old hd into windows to backup some quicken files I needed and windows wont boot... it will just hang at the welcome screen and stay there... Sometimes when I Alt-tab I see 2 processes 1 (Wndows Logon) 2 (windows welcome screen)... but that's it... I've tried everything but doing a repair install, since I'm afraid about getting stuck in the repair install (it has happened to me twice).
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Aug 30, 2002
I have an intermittent problem, xp hangs occassionaly at the boot screen. If I unplug the system when not in use it doesn't happen as often. WEIRD. When it does happen I have to leave the system unplugged for about 5 minutes or it won't boot. This has been happening ever since I upgraded to home XP from ME. It is a legal XP CD. I have a new amd athelon 1.2 motherboard and XP drivers for my hardware.I even reinstalled XP but the problem persists.
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Oct 25, 2008
During boot up, my friend's computer shows a screen where he has to choose which Windows installation to load. One choice is Windows, the other Windows (default). The latter is the one that works and Windows loads normally.Now as far as I can tell, he only has one version of Windows installed on his computer, so the message is a little strange.Any idea what is causing this, and how can I get rid of it?
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May 20, 2005
How can I see my XP boot up process (memory count, etc.) on the screen when I power on. Currently, I get a quick screen with F2 and DEL (system setup and boot order) and then on to the XP banner screen and login screen. I don't see the devices load or RAM count up.
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Jul 9, 2005
Are you able to change the boot up screen to another picture on the computer if so how.
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Jul 11, 2009
I`m running XP Home on a desktop PC, and until recently was also running XP Pro as a dual boot setup.On rebooting XP Pro I started to get a grey coloured `Platinum` logo screen with the command on the bottom line `Press <Tab> to switch to Post or <Del> to run Bios setup`If I don`t respond after about 20 seconds the boot sequence continues normally.Last week I cleared down my computer and reinstalled XP Home only hoping that the `Platinum` screen went away, but it didn`t.Does anybody know why this screen is appearing, and more to the point.
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May 21, 2005
On a HP Pavillion with Win XP Home the display goes blank after the Boot UP logo with the sliding progress graphic.I've tried all the safe modes and the last driver it shows loading is agp440.sys and then nothing else ever happens.I tried installing another video card and had the same symptoms.Knoppix boots with just a passed mode error but continues and appears to work OK.I belive that HP's restore image on the HD will wipe out the primary partion so I am hoping that someone can point out another way to fix this.
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Apr 7, 2007
I want to install Windows XP Professional edition on my old PC which is currently running Linux Fedora Core 6.0. the problem is after I boot the Windows XP CD, it says configuring the hardware and stuff like that, but then it goes black and nothing happens after that.I had Windows XP on this computer before and it was fine, the only thing I have changed is the monitor, which is now a very old Dell e770p. might that be the problem? or is it the CD problem? (I could open the content of the CD in my Linux Fedora though)
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