I was wondering if anyone could help me; I am currently running winxp sp2 home edition. We had a power cut the other night and my pc turned off. No biggie right? Well I tried turning it on today and it comes up with windows was not shut down properly, yadda yadda yadda 1. start in safe mode 2. safe mode with networking 3. safe mode with cmd 4. start windows with last working config. 5. Run windows normally I have been through all of the options on the above list it gets to the xp loading screen before the password prompt then it restarts, back to previous screen. I don’t know why but I went in checked the boot devices, made sure it was the HDD so for and so on. Normally I would off started in safe mode and took my computer back to a later stage but if I can’t get the pc to login then what can I do eh? (FYI: No new Hardware was installed, the pc hasn’t been opened in ages, there was new software installed about a week or so ago, but the pc has been in good use since then and worked fine) I am open to suggestions, I’m baffled Could someone please assist me asap. Kind Regards James
if have a xp cd then boot off it & select repair. at the c:/prompt, type chkdsk /r then enter. will take a while to run so have patience. did that yesterday on a customer's computer with the same problem & fixed it.
do as ddp says but keep an open mind on fried hardware Just before an outage there is sometimes a surge Once I got a fried stick of ram, CD burner, and another i cant remember. All from one outage. good luck..let us know how it turned out
