XP Broke

[InFiNiTy]

SO i turned my Pc laptop and logged on but it was the cttrl alt del style logon not the classic one


aand i log on my desktop bg loads and io get a small bsod abgout 1/3 of a screen in the corner of MY SCREEN what ahsopuld i do?

[coursemyhorse]

SO i turned my Pc laptop and logged on but it was the cttrl alt del style logon not the classic one


aand i log on my desktop bg loads and io get a small bsod abgout 1/3 of a screen in the corner of MY SCREEN what ahsopuld i do?

Write that again in English would be a start. Plus give more info. (Seriously check your spelling/grammar).

[codemonkey]

Kin_****

You have been spoken to about spelling and grammer previously, and about providing full information. Please spell check your posts before you post them!

[Andrew Moore]

I came to turn on my laptop pc and logged on but it wasn't the normal "classic" log on but the "ctrl alt del" style logon.


After logging on to my desktop, the desktop background loads and then I get a small BSOD (windowed I can assume which is odd) about 1/3 of a screen in the corner of my desktop.

What should I do?

Kind regards,

Kin_****

After trying to have a look at what you have said I have come to the above.

Sounds very odd as a BSOD usually fills the whole desktop. Have you tried booting in safe mode and scanning your computer to see if any virus/trojan etc have made a mess of your system??

A check disk may also provide useful here too so get to it and report back.


Andy

[InFiNiTy]

Yes, i tried booting in safemode and it gave me the same error BSod thingy

If i insert and XP cd, i click install it says my Hard Drive cannot be found althought Xp OS boots up the loading screen and etc

What should i do

[snakedoc]

I recommend that you give up trying to use a computer. Have a grown up look at it for you.

[coursemyhorse]

You mention a laptop, PC and desktop. Well which is it? We aren;t going to magically be able to tell you why you are getting a blue screen of death on your computer. Use the normal troubleshooting steps for this kind of thing. What have you tried so far?

[InFiNiTy]

Its not a BSod, its like 1/4 of one and it flashes up for like 1/100th of a second, and its gone in for repaidr now :)


IM go find myself a macbook now :D

[system7]

For future reference, usually you load bios defaults, then set CD to boot before Hard Drive.

If Windows Install disk can't find the drive, you need to download some HD utilities appropriate to your Hard Drive and quick zero-fill to erase any potential problems and repartition and format NTFS.

If Windows can see the drive, a repair install is possible in XP which preserves data. It needs a drivers disk too. Recovery console fixmbr often cures stuff too.

Also worth having a Ubuntu CD to hand for repairs and recovery. A MacBook is really no easier...it is just a specific type of PC running a Linux-like OS. :p

[Khaz45]

Kin_****

You have been spoken to about spelling and grammer previously, and about providing full information. Please spell check your posts before you post them!

Cough Grammar... Sorry not intending to be rude just saw that and had to point out the irony.

[Andrew Moore]

Cough Grammar... Sorry not intending to be rude just saw that and had to point out the irony.

Even the bbc spell it at gramm"er"... rather than gramm"ar"... Must be a regular error in our language where few know how to spell it properly.

Andy