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Wodows XP Will Not Boot-up

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by okippiko

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This system is running an AMD 1500 with 256mb pc 133 ram. The systems is new and ran fine until about a week ago. Now it will not bootup at all with no beeps and goes to a blank screen. Can anyone give me some insight on what I have to do to get this system to bootup properly? Any help will be apprciated. Thanks.

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by ajsdodd

If you are not getting a post screen then check the cpu fan is running and then reseat the RAM.

by borginva

Is your partician FAT32 or NTFS?

Try booting off of your CD. Make sure your BIOS is set up for that to boot off the CD first. So boot off the XP CD and go into safe/recovery/repair mode (which ever it says).
Then try a chkdsk/r or chkdsk/p (I forget which one) in the recovery console DOS window. And reboot when done.
If you are getting unmount errors, then after the chkdsk/p, type fixboot and then when that is done, reboot.

by okippiko

the cpu fan is running and I reseated the mem. I also installed the floppy and cdrom in another system and they seem to be fine. I also tried booting from the xp cd and it still didn't work.
partition is FAT32. thanks for the responses anyway, it is appreciated.

by ajsdodd

Ooops hit the button to early.

It may be worth trying using the jumper on the motherboard to clear the CMOS.

by ytivarg

Ive had this problem many a time with bad video cards in xp. that would be the first place I would look.

by bwest3

You might try going into the setup once you restart your
system. Win 98 relies on you to guess as to when you
feel it is at the bootable stage and loading drivers. Then
you take a chance and hold down the F8 key to
hopefully enter setup. Xp is definitely different so have
you considered your system restore CD? If you've done
at least one User Restore Backup, then you may be
able to resore from that file, although you'll lose any
files. data, etc.. you added after the last User Backup
was deleted. Last resort, choose Factory Restore to
restore to original factory condition, and re-enter reg.
information. Files, data, and programs will obviously
require reinstalling.

by lionel.barnes

I had a similar problem with an older pc - just a thought - if you think pc booting up normally but no display and you've had monitor disconnected check vga lead for depressed or bent pins.

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