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XP Won't go past login screen

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iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · Jan 17, 2005

Good evening.I am helping a friend with an older emachine that has xp sp 2 installed.When you start the computer it boots all the way to the login screen with all the users then you hear a clang from inside the computer then it restarts.It'll go into safe mode.I ran spybot and adaware from my thumb drive but they both couldn't fix all of the listed problems.Tried to do a disk check but it would stop due too "unspecified error".The hard drive is only a little over 6gigs with 15% free space(after cleanup from safe mode)Got it defraging now(gonna take all nite)

Like I said this is an older machine as my g/f had one just like it and hers had windows 98 on it original.Not sure if my friend upgraded to xp or it she bought it like this.Says it was working fine up until a couple weeks ago.If anyone has any ideas I sure would appreciate all of your time and help.....thanks a lots!!!!!

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Jackiefrost9

· #2 · Jan 17, 2005

Sounds like a failing hard drive to me, the "clang" says its not software related. 6 gigs is barely enough to run xp, im impressed lol.

If you have another hard drive with an OS on it, plug that into the computer and see what data you can get from the failing drive, back up all of her files from the drive, or at least just the ones she wants.

If you want, you can try re-installing XP but i dunno how far that will get you. I guess its worth a try though.

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Jackiefrost9

· #4 · Jan 18, 2005

Glad to be of some help, lol wonder what other stuff she threw into that computer...

Isn't the minimum amount of RAM for xp 128MB? Maybe thats why it won't start... sounds like its time for a new computer!

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Jackiefrost9

· #7 · Jan 18, 2005

It's 128MB, but shes still way under the minimum. Do you happen to have a stick of RAM somewhere that you could throw in it?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx

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Jackiefrost9

· #9 · Jan 19, 2005

only thing I can think of now (besides a new computer lol) is re-installing it.

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