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Windows XP will not boot up!

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by sawwah, 2007/04/18.

  1. 2007/04/18
    sawwah

    sawwah Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello everyone. My laptop can't boot after suddenly shuting down and when I open the power after the hp logo, the is a blank screen with only a hyphen. The computer won't boot up at all. All I see is a blinking cursor. Please help. :(
     
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  2. 2007/04/18
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    sawwah - Welcome to the Board :)
    Were you running on battery or mains power? May be as simple as a flat battery.

    Can you start the computer in Safe Mode? .....
     
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  4. 2007/04/19
    flewsky

    flewsky Inactive

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    do you try some other startup?? like CD-ROM, you can try boot it from this ,and to see if the system is right.
    Maybe some hardware has the problem.
     
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  5. 2007/04/19
    RoBoT SpIdEr

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    try booting for the xp disk going into repair mode and runing fixboot an fixmbr
     
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  6. 2007/04/19
    PeteC

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    RoBoT SpIdEr

    Please be more specific in your posts - the info you gave is lacking in several respects, specifically to use the first Repair option and to enter the Recovery Console.

    Please do not assume that all posters have your degree of knowledge - the computer experience listed by each post is inserted by the user and is often far short of the mark :)
     
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  7. 2007/04/19
    sawwah

    sawwah Inactive Thread Starter

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    thank you all for helping me out on this issue. I will try what you suggested and report back to see whether your steps worked or not.
     
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