Recent content by Factotum07

Ha nevermind. Well thanks everyone for all your help, but it has trouble even spinning the dvd drive now to boot from cd. I'm buying a new Mobo/processor combo and a new hdd.

It no longer makes it to the Windows Boot Screen.

Chkdsk /R had no effect. It doesn't even make it to the WinXP boot screen anymore. Right after it asks me if I want to boot from cd, the screen goes black and just stays that way. I have a feeling it may be the hard drive, considering chkdsk found "one or more" errors.

Try booting a Live distro of Linux such as Slax and try deleting it that way? I was going to say use Unlocker, but...

What are the specs of the laptop? How much ram? What speed processor? In task manager>processes what programs are using the most memory?

Aha! Ok so I ran chkdsk, and I got: "CHKDSK found one or more errors on the volume" So how do I fix it? I'm trying chkdsk /R at the moment, I'll post back with the results, I'm not sure it'll even help.

Ok I hit F8, and tried pretty much everything on the menu, and now all I'm getting to is a black screen before the windows xp boot screen where it just freezes. Oh, well. A new mobo/processor combo is on it's way from newegg for a total of $91 and some change (Biostar mobo and a P4 2.5GHz).

Ok thanks I'll try that. And yeah I tried the last known good config to no prevail. Tried booting into safe mode, but it still did the same thing, is there a way to go back to a restore point before windows loads? And I loaded all failsafes in BIOS, and reset CMOS settings on the mobo. I'll...

My computer normally runs on a P4 2.4GHz socket 478 processor. I put a (non-working, didn't know at the time, but it had coolant leaking) P4 3.0GHz processor socket 478 in it and booted up. Windows booted fine, and I got to my desktop, and a window popped up that said soemthing like "Windows has...