XP Blue Screen

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 01:32 PM

When my computer is turning on it stops when it gets to the blue screen with the xp logo. It will not continue to where you log on.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 02:08 PM

Until somebody else chimes in, I would try pressing the f8 key before Windows boots and then select the option to boot into last known good configuration.
See if that fixes it first.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 03:41 PM

What does the error say?

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 04:33 PM

There isn't an error message displayed - just a blue Windows screen that says "Microsoft Windows XP". I was able to F8 into the safe mode screen but when I selected safe mode the system displayed a bunch of file paths and then went back into the blue screen.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 06:23 PM

This thread here sounds almost exactly like what you are going through.

http://www.d-a-l.com/help/windows-xp-help/...paq-nx6110.html

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 06:54 PM

Do you have Windows CD?

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 08:35 PM

The link provided by rokytnji is exactly what I'm experiencing. The problem now is I can't find the Windows CD. Any suggestions? Thank you both for all your help.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 08:46 PM

I don't think my computer came with a Windows CD. I'm discovering via the HP manual that it didn't come with recovery CDs. Looks like I was supposed to create them. I'll continue reading the manual for instructions...

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 08:55 PM

What is the brand, and model of your computer?

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 08:56 PM

Hopefully your manual will give you some hot key strokes to access the Windows recovery section on your harddisk. The only thing I know of (thinking outside of the box here) since I am a linux user, is to recover your O/S recovery file/partition onto a USB flash drive using a Linux live cd like Ubuntu. Broni is waaaaay better than me on Windows only solutions, so I will defer to him on this one.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 09:12 PM

It's an HP Pavillion 734n - a bit of a dinosaur. I did find a way through the HP troubleshoot site to get into the pc system recovery by pressing F10 repeatedly during reboot. I'm in the recovery process now. Hopefully this works. I'll keep you posted.