My computer [HP - Oct'06] recently decided to hate me. I was running Microsoft Windows Media Center 2005 on my computer, as it came stock, for a time and it worked well. I am a student at OSU and the IT Distribution grants each student a copy of Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and/or Windows XP Professional x64 edition. I have both, my computer supports x64. So I went through the usual, reformat and reinstall. I first got rid of HP's System Recovery partition because it enjoys recovering advertisements, Wild Tangent and AOL trials. Then I went to reformat, I inserted the Windows XP Professional x64 disc and rebooted. The system start up begins to initialize and before it can give the Terms and Agreement screen, it blows up. I get another Blue Screen of Death that informs me files are corrupted or may be infected with a virus and that I should run CHKDSK. I restart and attempt to do so, the prompt comes up that windows was not shut down properly and that I should choose: "Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Good Configuration, or Start Windows Normally." I have tried all of them and none work, the Windows Logo pops up as it normally does on load and then the computer restarts. So my question is now, How do I fix this issue? Me and friends beleive it to be some B.S. from HP, or firmware, placed on my motherboard or hard drive... Can anyone help?
2007-03-17
17:41:26
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