re: XP wont boot tried everything Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 9:29 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22031 messages posted) What kind of a computer? If you can not get an initial POST display, then you have a major hardware problem. On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 8:38 pm, Gonefishin' wrote: >A friend has a computer he recently purchased which came with xp home edition. He >upgraded to xp pro w/sp1. It has >2 hard drives and dvd and cdrw. He ecently installed sp1 and when almost finished >installing the screen went blank,not blue. >Tried using restore disc which came from vendor and nothing happened. downloaded >6 floppies from microsoft and tried and again nothing happened. Tried hitting F8 >and F5 when turning on computer on and again nothing. for some reason will not boot >up at all. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. >Tnx, >Tom Written in response to: XP wont boot tried everything (Gonefishin': Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 8:38 pm) Responses to this message: re: XP wont boot tried everything (Gonefishin': Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 9:52 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] XP wont boot tried everything (Gonefishin': Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 8:38 pm) re: XP wont boot tried everything (Tom Swanson: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 9:19 pm) re: XP wont boot tried everything (Ricer46: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 9:29 pm) re: XP wont boot tried everything (Gonefishin': Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 9:52 pm) re: XP wont boot tried everything (Jazz: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 2:47 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum