Help my computer wont boot up!!!?

Question

it is a celeron D with windows xp professional
first I see the windows xp logo then it goes to a blue screen that says windows is restarting the the screen goes black and I can see the mouse but I cant move it then a error box flashes then it goes it a loop until I turn it off...............if I keep moving the arrow pad it lets me choose the OS I want to boot with one says windows xp professional (the one that Loops) and the other one is just a white box when I choose that one it says the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vgaoem.fon is missing or corrupt I cant reinstall windows because the computer came with it.

any help please

p.s. i am on my friends computer right now

not even in safe mode it does the same thing

Answer 1

If you have no luck with the F5 key, you could try hacking in with a rescue CD. They are downloadable image files that you burn to CD. It should then allow you to copy a new vgaoem.fon file to the system folder. This may not cure the problem as the disk maybe dying. If you do get it running, the first thing you should do is back it up.
Another possibility is putting the disk into a working system as the second drive. While in the second system you should be able to run a scandisk on it. Then replace any gash files.
If it didnot come with a recovery disk you may find the install files somewhere on the hard drive they are usually named win followed by a number and ending with the CAB extension
search the microsoft knowledgebase on how to extract the files you have to replace.

Answer 2

if the pc came preinstalled with windows you should be able to run the recovery program and select the non-destructive reinstall....try pressing the f5 key while booting up.....if that doesn't work you can still recover you just need a copy of windows (borrow your friends if possible)....you aren't going to install from their disc but just get to the recovery console portion....once there type fixboot, then confirm.....then type chkdsk /r and wait till its done......then reboot without the disc in....if you still get prompted for the OS you want to boot to, there should be an option for safe mode....if not reboot and press f8 until the screen pops-up with your options....select safe mode with networking and then once there you should have the option to run system restore, or you could bypass that and try to figure out what the problem is from within safe mode.

Answer 3

The only way to fix this problem is by using the windows CD to boot up your system... If you bought your computer with windows already installed and did not get the Cd then you will have to take your computer back to whomever you bought it from to sort out the problem.. I am afraid that without the windows CD there is nothing much else you can do..

Answer 4

Are your sure it said C:\windows\system\vgaoem or was it C:\Windows\System32\vgaoem ?

Windows does not normally get files from C:\Windows\System anymore.

It sounds like it does not like your Video Card or your monitor. There seems to be a problem with this item. Try booting in Safe Mode to see if you can fix this problem.

Answer 5

See if you can go into Safe Mode and do a system restore to an earlier date or to system defaults.

Restore WindowsXP to System Default

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/xpsysrst.mspx

Feature: System Restore
When to use it: You recently updated a device driver, and using Device Driver Roll Back did not restore stability to your system. You must be logged on as an administrator to use this feature.
What it does: Restores all system and application settings back to those that were in effect at a point in time you specify. Undoes key application, driver, and operating system file changes made since that time. Does not affect data files.
Available on: Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional.
For more information, see System Restore overview.
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The Blue Screen of Death. I will include below some information on it. Before I go into it, inasmuch as Windows came "bundled" with your computer, you should be able to go to the seller for help. Before you call, get out your sales slip, order number, serial number of the PC, customer number, whatever you need to identify yourself.

Blue Screen of Death
The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes called "bluescreen", "stop error" or just abbreviated as "BSOD") is the popular name for the screen displayed by Microsoft's Windows operating system when it cannot recover from, or is in danger of being unable to recover from, a system error (the Microsoft term is Stop error). There are two Windows error screens that are both referred to as the blue screen of death, with one (Windows NT 4/2000/XP/Vista) being significantly more serious than the other (Windows 9x). There are several causes of the blue screen popping up. It can be a poorly-written device driver, bad memory, damaged registry or usage of incompatible versions of DLLs (see more on the "Types of blue screens" section).
The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 3.1. It is the successor of the less well-known black screen of death that occurs in OS/2 as well as MS-DOS[1]. In early builds of Windows Vista it was complemented with a red screen of death, used for boot loader errors.
Blue Screen of Death – lots more information here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#References
Blue Screen of Death – Link to fixes
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-fp&p=fix%20blue%20screen%20of%20death

Answer 6

Try pressing F5 while it boots and boot in safe mode. Then you might be able to find out what the problem is.