yesterday my computer was on when the power WENT out in my neihborhood. I haven't been able to get it working since it came back. I'll get to the windows XP logo and it'll stay there. I went in Safe mode and did a system restore but that didn't WORK. I'm out of ideas short of reinstalling windows. I was WONDERING if I had any other options before I did that though.id suggest reinstalling windows, sorry. . your harddrive might have been damaged from the power outage also.

you might also want to wait for others to respond because thats the best advice i can give you.Alright. thanks. I guess I'll do it tomorrow if no one says anything different by then.You could TRY a repair install. Do you have a REAL Windows CD?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=repair+install+xp

You may get lucky.Thnks. I'll keep that option open too.It's working now. A friend of mine suggested I go to "run" in the start menu and type "msconfig"  After that I picked regular start up and it worked.  I figured I'd put this up just incase anyone else ran into a similar problem. I'm really relieved. Anyway I appreciate your time and help.