last known good config
There it is.
If you can get into that screen your problem is solved.
I picked up some type of trojan that the computer refused to allow to load into memory, and it would flash a millisecond error screen and then loop off.
At startup I hit delete several timesto go into CMOS setup then made the CD drive the first boot option, then used the XP CD to check the disk and remove the malicious program.
After that I reset the boot options and most everything was okay.
If you have to use the XP CD you don’t have to reformat anything, you just re install the windows program.
This keeps your data.
If nothing else works, you get another drive and slave the faulty one to it and copy all of your data to it.
You can’t copy programs and make them work without reinstalling them, but this sounds a bit extreme unless your drive has gone South, and then you normally don’t get as far as you have.
I cant get there bill
Had a very similar thing happen to my coworker's computer last week, except it was running W2K Pro.
Never could get it fixed. Even when I could finally get it to try to repair Windows, it would get to a certain point and just freeze.
We solved the problem by buying him a new computer (he was due for an upgrade anyway)
These suggestions may help me to salvage his old box for something.
Thanks to all.