Computer Startup?

Question

When i turn on my computer it usually goes to a screen where it says "press DEL to enter setup" and stuff like that, then to the windows xp loading screen. Now when i turned it on it stays frozen on that first startup screen and i cant push or click anything. I can hear the computer running like it normally does. What could have caused this problem?

Answer 1

Do you have a proper WinXP OS disc, or did your system come with a "Recovery Disk"? If you can get hold of a proper MS disc (not a copy) you can try the recovery utility - start the pc and immediately and repeatedly hit the "Del" key (I think it's "Del" for Award BIOSes but if not, try F2) which should get you to the BIOS setup, where you need to tell the PC to attempt to boot firstly from the CD/DVD drive (from memory, I think it's on the first page you see - Boot Order, it's usually called). Save the settings once changed (hit F10 and confirm y ), open the CD, stick the XP disk in, power off, and then power on. It should boot into Windows from the XP disk. You may have to hit a key to confirm a CD boot so keep an eye on it.

If you can get that far, there's some hope; I'd try (first) the FIXMBR command from the Window Recovery Console, which will rewrite the Boot Sector. If that doesn't fix the problem, you need to restart the pc again and get into the full Windows Recovery Utility which will reinstall XP over the top of your old installation and rewrite all the system files and drivers. It's tricky (ie not very intuitive) to get in to, so if you can grab hold of someone who's done it before, do so.

Windows XP Clean Installation - Partitioning and Formatting using Windows XP CD
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_home_install_-_graphic.htm

Answer 2

1. Turn the computer fully off and than back on.

2. When you see the message [Press "Del" to enter setup], do so.

3. Wait for a different screen to appear

4. If you do not get a different screen and the problem remains. Turn the computer off and unplug it for at least a minute in addition to reconnecting the keyboard and mouse.

5. Turn the computer back on. If the problem remains you may have a hardware failure. Sometimes a bad hard disk can stop a computer from starting up.

Traditionally when you troubleshoot a computer with this issue you have to unplug all of the internal components except for processor, RAM, and video.

Answer 3

Either something has failed, or something new needs to be setup.
Try booting into safe mode and see what you can access.
If you can't see whats up from there, then go into setup and see whats happening...
Sounds like something has failed, so checking cables will help; cables inside and outside the PC... don't forget to turn the PC off and unplug the PC if you need to go inside the unit

Answer 4

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