I have an older Dell (not sure on the model) running windows XP. Computer was working fine until LAST night. I shut the computer down because we were having an electrical storm. When I tried to restart the computer it looks like it will boot normally you get the black windows screen with the moving load bar at the bottom....then you get a flash of the "blue screen of death" flashes to quick to read it. Then a black screen with a cursor then it goes to "power was intrupted do you want to boot in SAFE mode" screen. IF you try to boot in any mode it looks like it loads certain files then the same thing as above happens and your back to the safe mode screen. You can get to the system setup screen if you hit the F2 key.

Any ideas whats wrong? I thought about reloading windows but I need to be sure not to lose any info on the hard drive if POSSIBLE....

Thanks in advanceTry this. Keep pressing F8 as the computer is booting up and choose "disable automatic reboot on system failure" or something like that. You should then be able to see what the BSOD says. Post the error code here and hopefully someone knows how to fix this.So,what type of online service do you have?

Will that computer boot if you physically remove
the modem first?Quote from: street1 on August 17, 2007, 04:29:47 PM

So,what type of online service do you have?

Will that computer boot if you physically remove
the modem first?