XP cannot boot! Help!

[Eeron]

Compaq Presario 500 laptop; AMD Duron 900MHz, 384MB RAM

Right, the situation is this:

My laptop (running XP home) began freezing a while ago. I found some tips to
lessen the issue, but it didn't really go away. It always seemed to do it
when moving files. Anyhow, it came to a head after installing a driver
update. The freezing occurred every 5 minutes. So, in an act of desperation
i ran a system restore, to restore my driver settings. It froze half way
through the restoration. Now I'm left with a computer which doesn't boot (it
is in a crash-reboot cycle). I am going to attempt to use a bootdisk I
created by having a look on the microsoft resource base, but I would be
interested to hear if anyone has had a similar problem and how they fixed
it.

Thanks, Eeron

[jym]

Overheating or bad ram would be my guess. Jym


"Eeron" > wrote in message news:1056038796.613838@dyfi...
> Compaq Presario 500 laptop; AMD Duron 900MHz, 384MB RAM
>
> Right, the situation is this:
>
> My laptop (running XP home) began freezing a while ago. I found some tips
to
> lessen the issue, but it didn't really go away. It always seemed to do it
> when moving files. Anyhow, it came to a head after installing a driver
> update. The freezing occurred every 5 minutes. So, in an act of
desperation
> i ran a system restore, to restore my driver settings. It froze half way
> through the restoration. Now I'm left with a computer which doesn't boot
(it
> is in a crash-reboot cycle). I am going to attempt to use a bootdisk I
> created by having a look on the microsoft resource base, but I would be
> interested to hear if anyone has had a similar problem and how they fixed
> it.
>
> Thanks, Eeron
>
>

[Mark L. Ferguson]

315341 - How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation or Repair) of
Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341



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"Eeron" > wrote in message news:1056038796.613838@dyfi...
> Compaq Presario 500 laptop; AMD Duron 900MHz, 384MB RAM
>
> Right, the situation is this:
>
> My laptop (running XP home) began freezing a while ago. I found some tips to
> lessen the issue, but it didn't really go away. It always seemed to do it
> when moving files. Anyhow, it came to a head after installing a driver
> update. The freezing occurred every 5 minutes. So, in an act of desperation
> i ran a system restore, to restore my driver settings. It froze half way
> through the restoration. Now I'm left with a computer which doesn't boot (it
> is in a crash-reboot cycle). I am going to attempt to use a bootdisk I
> created by having a look on the microsoft resource base, but I would be
> interested to hear if anyone has had a similar problem and how they fixed
> it.
>
> Thanks, Eeron
>
>