changed from vista to xp

I have a Compaq Presario C555NR. It came with Vista and I formatted the hard drive and installed XP Home, a copy I had from another computer. I downloaded all the drivers and got all the question marks out of device manager.

The problem is when i restart my computer it goes into the " sorry for inconveniences but Windows couldn't start properly screen ". Most of the time I can just hit a key and it will start ok, but lately that's not working as well.

This problem comes up after leaving computer off overnight always, but if I turn it off and leave it an hour or so it starts correctly most of the time.

Tried using repair in setup and computer slowed down so much it won't hardly work anymore. Tried downloading chipset driver from Compaq and when I installed drivers and restarted computer, the screen went into a grayash collor with color streaks all throughout.

Computer Compaq C555NR 1.60 GHz Intel Celeron M Processor 520
512 memory Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ( shared
80GB harddrive Sata

Hope this is enough info to work with.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a beginner in the repair part of owning a computer. I used to hear a phrase that a little knowledge can be dangerous, but with a computer that phrase should be " A little computer knowledge can be VERY DANGEROUS. I know its a lot to ask, but a detailed description of how to repair this would be appreciated. Again thanks for any help.

Ron Caracofe Staunton Virginia

 

Hi cruisin,

First off, your computer has a "repair\recovery" partition. When you installed WinHome, I have a feeling there might be a conflict with the two OS's.

 

Thanks for the reply. I formatted the hard drive and installed Windows XP as per on screen instructions. Everything seemed to go ok. Went on line and got all updates from Microsoft.

Tried following your instructions to get to the boot file, but that didn't work.

I'm always on power as battery life is very short. Haven't tried booting into Safe Mode, will try that later today.

Read another post somewhere that the chipset drivers had to be updated. Found drivers at Intel, downloaded them and tried to install them, when I did the screen went a funky shade of gray and had all kinds of color streaks running through it, so I rebooted and it was screen came back to normal.

Thanks again, any help is greatly appreciated. Ron C