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I have a computer problem.

post #1 of 5
10/23/09 at 11:08am
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hi,

my netbook(asus eeepc 1000ha) has a problem booting up to windows xp. whenever i boot up i go to the black screen asking whether or not you want to go to safe mode, windows xp, last best mode(something like that) and then it goes to windows xp load screens and then the blue screen of death comes up for like one second and it goes back to the black screen with all those options. i've trying doing debugging mode and every other mode (f8) and it doesn't work. so i recently added a premade boot up windows Xp on my flashdrive. and it didn't work. what should i do?

could it be files corruption? could it be that the boot up flashdrive that i've downloaded is incomplete? or should I just buy a external Cd drive and then pop in the asus cd?

please help guys,

thanks in advance
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post #2 of 5
10/23/09 at 4:07pm
Maybe a boot record issue. There are ways to correct that without killing your data.
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post #3 of 5
10/23/09 at 4:52pm
sounds just like what happened when one time I got smart and messed up my registry, but there are always endless possibilities with Windows.

and I'm pretty much s computer illiterate, so I don't know much better.
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post #4 of 5
10/23/09 at 7:30pm
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Damn, Lol it sucks. I don't mind reformating but I just don't have an external CD Drive, and where can I download a bootable flash Windows XP? I don't feel like buying a External CD DRIVE lol.
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post #5 of 5
10/24/09 at 9:29pm
I'm 99% sure your hard drive has failed, here's why...

A blue screen of death is a Windows--generated screen that means one of two things - hardware failure or driver problems.

Assuming you haven't updated or installed any hardware/drivers since you bought it - it's probably not a driver issue. You've got to look at hardware problems.

It's not a memory/RAM problem because that would prevent you from passing the BIOS screens. Considering that everything else except the hard drive is built into the motherboard, it's either the motherboard or the hard drive.

If it's a motherboard issue, the only relevant piece of hardware that gets called after boot-up but before the "loading windows" screen is the video card... not impossible but unlikely. One of the last lines of the blue screen of death will probably reference either ATI or nvidia.

I've repaired literally hundreds of laptops when I did tech support and it's almost always the hard drive, especially in laptops where they are more likely to overheat.

Hard drives are cheap and easy to swap out but without a CD drive it's going to be a pain to install XP. You can do it from a flashdrive but you have to set it up specifically for this purpose. There are plenty of google search results for this.
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