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Originally posted by rav0
Do you have a "Last Known Good Configuration" option. I don't know what the problem is, but the lastgood restore could work

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It doesnt nothing does.
Sunshine, you are lucky you atleast have safe mode .... i didnt
Try re-installing xp over the older copy by running the setup from the cd. It used to work in win 9x. If it works it'd save your time re-installing everything
And i know what you mean when you say

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Originally posted by Sunshine
I seriously don't want to reinstall Windows every two weeks It took many many hours to reinstall all my programs again...and i haven't even put all back yet..i now install when i come across one i need that i forgot.

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The same thing happens to me
* John Anderton consoles sunshine if she has to re-install everything again

Just like yesterday when i turned on my comp it hang again on startup screen (with the blocks). Doing the same like yesterday did not solve it (safemode/AV scan), there was no virus found. I ran chkdsk and there were no bad sectors found either.

So then i chose "last good configuration", this made things even worse as i now can't even get into safemode anymore

This is seriously the worst and weirdest problem i've ever come across. I guess there's nothing left to do now but a reinstall. But if any of you could tell me what could cause this strange behaviour, please let me know. I'd hate to face the same thing every few weeks

Anyway If you format your hardrive it should put the registry back to normal.

Now if i could only get into the setup from CD...it boots up...i see blue screen loading things then it goes on to black screen with only blinking cursor

No "Welcome to setup"

I'm running a memorytest atm, i seriously have no idea whats wrong with this thing..

I think it's a hardware problem there, no reason why it could not load the setup, itself.

Is your XP disk kind of clean from the back?  If it's scratched too much maybe?  This is a really weird situtation.  Did you ever do something, install?  New hardware?

I expect it to be a hardware problem aswell. No new hardware since those repairguys formatted and reinstalled (about 2 weeks ago).

The Windows CD is brandnew, only got it like a month ago (Genuine Advantage CD). Repairguys managed to install from it so it can't be the CD.

Question remains: what is it and how to find out

Had same prob and the only to fix it, after hours of tests and trying different whatnot plus hours on the phone with M$ too, the only thing left to do was to reformat. If you have a dvd burner drive, or a second hard drive, i'd recommend getting Norton Ghost, so u can create an image of yur C:\ drive and store it on a back up drive, it'll turn a 4h installation into a 1h restore, plus, Ghost can fit a lil over 6Gbs on one 4.7Gb dvd disc. And if u keep having to re-install, then yur hdd is busted, and it's most likely the write/read head that's damaged (y you wont find bad sectors on your disk). Hope this helps.

How's this for weird..i ran the memory test for over an hour, it found nothing and all of a sudden windows boots up normally again

I'm starting to think it's the RAM wich is working fine one min and not the next..if tomorrow the same happens i will see if switching the two RAM sticks makes any difference.

chkdsk /r c: returned that the volume is not damaged.

i once had similar problems, and it was the modem (if you have one), try that! although i think the symptoms suggest a hardware problem not nessarily modem or RAM, try to remove most of ur PCI cards one at a time to test.

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Originally posted by zaidgs
i once had similar problems, and it was the modem (if you have one), try that! although i think the symptoms suggest a hardware problem not nessarily modem or RAM, try to remove most of ur PCI cards one at a time to test.

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I only got basic stuff inthere (no fancy stuff like television card etc., the only cards i know off that are inthere are a graphics card and an ethernetcard), i don't think there's any i can take out and still be able to go into windows (besides the ethernetcard). And yes, i do have a modem wich is connected to my comp with an ethernetcard.

This is a totally weird problem, how to explain that after just running half an AV scan in safemode (first day, finding nothin) or runnin a memorytest program from diskette (today) it all of a sudden decides to work again? It didn't alter anything at all in windows, config or registry.

It's like it has to adress a certain part of the memory wich sometimes works and at other times doesn't (doesn't when computer is cold).