My girlfriends computer won't boot. She can TURN it on and it will get to the windows xp boot screen but go no further. I told her to try booting it in safe mode. She did the whole F8 thing and and CHOSE boot in safe mode and it went to a screen with a bunch of numbers, brackets and letters. She tried it again but this time it said there was a keyboard error and it had a few options, one of them was system configuration F10 or SOMETHING along those lines. It had a whole load of options we could select from there, which if are needed I can POST. So if anyone has any idea what we can do, or needs a bit more information, PLEASE post.

Thank you.Try safemode again but just let it run til it finishes....it sometimes takes AWHILE when it hasn't been accessed in a while.

Once you get in check Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager to see if any devices have issues. They will have a yellow symbol next to them.All right. I'll give that a whirl tomorrow. Thanks. If there are problems what should I be telling her to do about them?Let's get to point A first...Give me until about 9:30 EST.As GX1_Man would say...we'll leave the light on... [smiley=thumbup.gif] Thanks. Ok she put it on last night around 10? I guess. She's calling back in an hour...I think. I'll post once she does.I guess she didn't call back.  No, she didn't sadly. She did a little while ago but it is still on the numbers and letters screen, and it's been over 24 hours. Quote

My girlfriends computer won't boot. She can turn it on and it will get to the windows xp boot screen but go no further. I told her to try booting it in safe mode. She did the whole F8 thing and and chose boot in safe mode and it went to a screen with a bunch of numbers, brackets and letters. She tried it again but this time it said there was a keyboard error and it had a few options, one of them was system configuration F10 or something along those lines. It had a whole load of options we could select from there, [highlight]which if are needed I can post. So if anyone has any idea what we can do, or needs a bit more information,[/highlight] PLEASE post.

Thank you.