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xp wont start up, why????

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druggist

Technical User
Oct 11, 2000
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i just performed major surgery on my pc. fdisk etc..

now im with XP and it was working fine. ive got dsl, zonealarm, etc...

i log on, it goes to the rolling hills, then it shuts down and restarts.

WHY!!!!!!????

druggist
 
Head into Safe Mode and select "Last known good configuiration" this will repair a corrupt registry which could be causing this problem.

If that doesn't work use System Restore to get back to a point where everything worked.

Q310396 Windows XP Logon Screen Does not Appear and the Computer Continuously Restarts

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from
Starting (Q307545)
 
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