ok here we go. I tried to enter safe mode with no luck using f8 at startup so i modified the boot.ini file to safe boot. once in safe mode i was prompted for password which i entered the password i always use,but it was not accepted.so i made a boot disk,which by the way works on my other computer.however the machine with problems would not boot from this cd or the original xp cd.i did some research and came up with the boot was too fast for the cd to be recognized. so in bios i disabled quick boot.and here we are stuck on that screen that says testing memory.is there a solution without wiping the drive or should i shoot myself? please no laughing.
