XP Does not boot

Has your display adaptor developed a fault? Have you tried starting up your machine in safe mode. Hit the F8 key as the machine starts up.
Check your display settings and ensure that your monitor is capable of taking the display configurations you have such as resolution etc.

Check to make sure that memory is seated properly and make sure that memory is not bad

Check the manufacturers web site for video drivers to support XP or you could also try loading W2K drivers

You should also try disabling ACPI to see if this is causing the problem

See if you can boot into Safe Mode or Recovery Console (Press F8 duing bootup). Then run a chkdsk /r and after this, check your video mode settings/drivers etc.

Is this a laptop or desktop? Sounds like your computer is running, but for some reason the video goes out? Maybe the setting are not correct, but you should be able to correct this in safe mode.

I'm almost certain that your monitor does not support the video settings that XP is set to.

As stated in other answers, you need to boot into safe mode, and adjust / verify the video settings to assure that they are supported by your monitor.

I finally got rid of my bench monitor, as it would not support XP's default video settings when setting up a system.

You may need to use a different monitor to get into even safe mode.
Then, make sure the video settings (refresh rate) are acceptable for your normal monitor.

Chas

Press the F8 key after the RAM test to bring up the start options menu. Choose the 'LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION OPTION' and your PC will boot up. I had this exact same problem last week.

:)

ghost