My XP system is hung in a loop at start-up. It continues to start and re-start without letting me into the sys
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its a bad hardware for me on the way i see. (maybe corrupted harddrive).
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There are many things that may be wrong.\n-- It may be a virus, Restart your PC in secure mode (press F8 when starting windows) and run your antivirus\n-- It may be a program that doesn't finish and windows is waiting. If you still can use the PC when shutdown, right click the clock, chose task manager, then process tab. There you can see what is runnig on your computer. Try to kill one by one, if after you have killed one of them your computer shutdowns thats the bad guy. Visit the program's website.\n-- Some update messed up your windows. Sometimes when you update there are problems  (usually with other programs). You may look for a new update (windowsupdate or your program update) or to restore your XP.\n\nBTW: if you press the CPU button to shutdown the PC you could mess the hard disk, but it is unlikely. Just don't shake the computer after this. You may restart the computer and turn it off again to reduce the chances of this.
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Run CHKDSK /P\nBoot off your XP CD\nChoose recovery consol\nAt the command prompt, type CHKDSK /P\nOnce the command finishes, type EXIT to reboot.
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most likely, your boot file is corrupted. put your windows xp disk into your optical drive and reboot from the cd. go to repair console and repair the boot file
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u probably need to redownload and reinstall it\nor if ur running xp restore computer to a date when it worked
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If you are using XP just create a restore point, that should be the easiest and should solve most issues if the occur.
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try this\nget it into windows then go start&#92;run\n type in " sfc /scannow\n with the xp disk in\n should fix any corrupt files\n\n sounds like your boot.ini file is wrong.\n search for boot.ini, should look like this\n[boot loader]\ntimeout=3\ndefault=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)&#92;WINDOWS\n[operating systems]\nmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)&#92;WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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First go into BIOS, usually by pressing the Delete key while rebooting. Go to start up or boot devices and select your first boot device to your CD Rom. Put your Windows XP disk in the drive and reboot. From the options, do a repair.If that doesn't work, Try resetting your BIOS, usually a jumper on the motherboard, check the manual because they're all different.  If that doesn't work, Do a reformat and fresh install.\nIt sounds like a virus or trojon, so if you do get it up and going, without the reformat, do a complete scan with your antivirus software.
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After you have tried the last suggestion you might want to try this:\n\nRemove any CD/DVD's and floppies also any USB devices then re-boot, if you are still getting the same problem re-boot again but when the PC is starting up (after the initial beep at the BIOS check at start) just keep tapping the F8 function key about once per second you will then be presented with a menu, one of its options will be to start in Safe Mode, select this and see if the PC will start into XP for you, if it does then it most likely means that you have an updated or corrupt driver that is causing the problem and you will need to do some detective work to find out what it is.\nIf you still can't get in to Windows then things are more severe, if you have a Boot Floppy and have an Anti-Virus scanner then check for infections.\n\nThere is a WARNING! I should give you here before you do anything else, if your PC has data that you have not backed up and is important to you or other users of the PC, then DO NOT do anything more, as without proper knowledge of what to do next you can LOSE ALL data, get the PC to someone qualified to repair it.
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pop in your xp disc  when the screen comes up choose r then type in chkdsk /r it should fix it  or start unplugging your cards one at a time to see if one of them is bad
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While you start your computer up, press F10 or F12(i forget wich one) and do a system recovery.
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Try booting into safemode, log in under the administrator account and see what happens. if the same thing then maybe you can do a system restore from the command prompt: \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449\nTry restoring the computer to a time when it last worked. If that doesnt work and you have your windows xp disk, boot from it load the recovery console and try a chkdsk /r. More info on the recovery console here: \nhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/recovery_run_console.mspx?mfr=true\nAll else fails, reinstall the OS.
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I've been having some computer problems lately myself where XP won't boot. I tried pretty much everything. But I finally got it working after using this:\n\nFix-It Utilities 6\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009JKGRY/002-0155762-7876854?v=glance&n=229534\n\nI'm not sure if it'll work for you or not, but it's worth a shot.
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what I would try is wipe your hard drive clean and install professional again. What I think is happening is there is some code in the compaq version of xp that explains why this is happening.
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just plug it in, install the drivers and re boot xp
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trying going in the safe mode .. if you are successful in that .. look into the START MENU > PROGRAMS > STARTUP  here you might see some file which should not be here. If you have any delete it.\n\nSecondly in START > RUN type 'msconfig'  (without quotes ' ) then see the STARTUP TAB. Here you will find all the programs which executes at the time of start up.\n\nWhy i"m telling you all this because sometimes a software gets corrupt and it re-boots your system as soon as the system starts up
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Try repairing the Windows XP (It will come as "Repair Windows" or something like that, in the set up screen). During the set-up this option is provided. This is safest bet. And would probably work.\n\nIf this fails, then I am afraid that reinstalling is the only option.