Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

XP Recycles with no boot

Mar 1, 2004 11:00PM PST

I was performing a disk cleanup when PC rebooted. It will not go beyond screen with startup options of "
Safe Mode, Last Known config, start Windows normally". Each option I select,brings me back to same screen. Did notice on last known config a blue screen, but it went by as a flicker.

Last hardware added was a USB Cruzer which I removed and attempted to reboot. I powered system down for a few minutes but no response.

System is Win XP Home, ASUS mobo, Athlon 800mhz, Scsi cd burner, floppy, 20 and 40 gb hd. Mobo temp at 87 degrees.

Thanks for any help

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Re:XP Recycles with no boot 87 F or C?
Mar 1, 2004 11:07PM PST

If C, that's too high for the AMD chips. You may get to replace a component.

1. Can you boot the XP CD and CHKDSK from there?

2. Pull the AC CORD, count to 10 and try again.

Bob

- Collapse -
Re:Re:XP Recycles with no boot 87 F or C?
Mar 1, 2004 11:23PM PST

87 F

Have pulled ac and problem continues

Have attempted to boot XP Cd, message is
Bootable media detected, o=default entry. Screen changes to boot options no success. Did change the boot options in CMOS to boot from CD first.

- Collapse -
Unclear in your response.
Mar 1, 2004 11:42PM PST

But the answer is this. If you can't boot the XP CD, then you need to review a few items.

The CDRW (boot drive?) is good. Swap it out if need be. Be sure the XP CD is free from fingerprints, scratches, etc.

If you can't boot the XP CD, then the only out (short of hardware repair) is to make the 6 (SIX!) XP boot diskettes and try to make your way (slowly...) to the Recovery Console to chkdsk drive C:. http://www.bootdisk.com

If you have more than one boot drive such as a DVD drive and a CDRW, then one can backup what they can't lose with a KNOPPIX CD as I helped others find out at http://tips.oncomputers.info/archives2004/0401/2004-Jan-11.htm

- Collapse -
Re:XP Recycles with no boot
Mar 2, 2004 3:13AM PST

Are you able to override with F8 to get into safe mode? If you can get into safe mode, you have the option of system restore, if not and the recycling continues, you can try to repair from either the cd repair, or recovery console and changing your BIOS to have the cdrom as first boot device.