XP wont start up! help

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Nikole

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hey guys...im new here...thought id try here to solve this issue before taking in my computer to a tech.
So about 2 weeks ago i shut down my computer as i normally would...went to bed...got up, started it....windows did load...i logged in. But the picture would flicker, then icons began to not show, then come back and disappear randomly. It just progressed and became worse. Soon enough right after the Winows XP boot screen i get a black screen...then turns into a no signal, no input coming from my comp. Im not sure whats going on with it....ive tried to do a repair from my XP disc but i can't get it to boot to disc on start up.
Now i read someone on here changed a setting in my computer....he siad to go to my computer, right click it and go to properties, i changed to the boot to a NOEXCUTE...or something. There was the one it was set to...then another. I changed it to the other option i had. Now i get a message saying....
Windows could not start becuase of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.

i cant even get into safe mode now....can i change it back some how?
can i get the repair help from my XP disc?

any help would be greatly appreciated!
im not a pro with this stuff so im not really sure what im doing or how to fix thi
 
Sounds like you changed something in the BIOS.

Keep tapping Del when you boot the computer to get
into the BIOS.

Look carefully for the setting you're looking for. If you can't
find it, then just "Load Optimized Defaults" and try to boot again.

It sounded to me at first that your graphics card was going out.

Do you have a discreet graphics card or are you using the onboard?

I you have a discreet graphics card, then try booting with the onboard.
 
Hi,

I'm not clear here whats going on. I agree your description sounds like a graphics card/screen fault. But the other things seem unrelated.

Does the picture always work fine before windows loads, e.g. in bios, when using the windows CD. If so ignore the graphics issue and work on the booting issue.

Can we take it you've not been able to boot the windows CD at all, so its not related to reinstalling or repairing the installation.

You state you've remove the NOEXECUTE switch option from the boot.ini. Can I get this right are you able to boot windows desktop currently. Or you were before you removed this option. Removing the NOEXECUTE shouldn't prevent the computer from loading windows.

Are you able to get the F8 Advanced boot menu up. Can you discribe exactly what you can do and the exact message that is displayed.

At this early point its hard to say, but I would hazard to guess, if you've removed the NOEXECUTE switch have you prehaps changed more that that, this would give rise to a simular situation to the one you have discribed. See example below my boot.ini looks like this.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

if you were to change any of those multi, disk, rdisk, partition numbers or words, or change the path \windows your system would not know where windows is an wouldn't load.

Do you think this is whats happened. Because this can be corrected.

Dan
 
To resolve this try to use Recovery console .
Insert the Bootable disk in the cd rom and boot your computer from the cd (Operating system )
and try to repair your corrupted files from the recovery consolve .
 
yer this problem is your harddrive, it's not loading everything, it's ok, your pc is no way near broke yet, so don;t be sitting their thinking, o mg lol, as you do, yer, just do what this guy above said, hit the recover option and chkdsk for bad sectors, but i can;t see your sectors being wrong, nor anything else, just windows will not load everything, but seems to me, recovery should fix it all up.

try safe mode for a 1st and take the option off what you changed it to.
 
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