I NEED COM HELP PLZ!

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 13 May 2006, 14:57

My com is fucked... everytime i start it, it starts up like normal, but right after the xp logo screen when its supposed to enter windows my screen goes black... how the hell do I fix this problem ?? i would format c: and install xp again, but it doesnt react to my xp cd

help needed fastererererst

Dariuz · Post by **Dariuz** » 13 May 2006, 15:47

tried to boot in safe mode?

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 13 May 2006, 18:23

how ??? i cant figure out where to do that... and everyone says i should press f8 and shit, but i get some weird menu ...

Mushroom · Post by **Mushroom** » 13 May 2006, 20:07

It should look like this
http://www.justusers.net/articles/ossys ... /img17.jpg
or if it's japanese
http://inet.trendmicro.co.jp/solutionfi ... WinXP1.png

My system does that black screen too.. A good system restore in safe mode always help.. Xp nicest windows ever

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 13 May 2006, 20:38

i dont get that scrÃ©en at all

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 14 May 2006, 01:25

i had this problem too. on the loading screen you go into settings. can't remember what i did there, but i just messed around with some settings, and it worked...
...not much help, i know.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 14 May 2006, 07:54

petsen wrote:i dont get that scrÃ©en at all

It doesn't necessarily have to be F8. It could also be other buttons, such as F10, or delete. I suggest you try every "F"-button.

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 14 May 2006, 08:57

ok thanks for the help guys .. ill try more today, and viper_killerguy is comin over to help me, he's such computer genius

dz · Post by dz » 14 May 2006, 19:33

no! he's normal, you are just a computer noob!

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 14 May 2006, 21:11

hhe yhat might be true:)

Viper_KillerGuy · Post by **Viper_KillerGuy** » 14 May 2006, 21:52

weee, i'm normal

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 14 May 2006, 22:39

lol.... same thing happened to my computer last night... my brother installed Media Player 11.. and we can't get into windows :/
Luckily we have linux/knopix boot cd's..

But still.. how do i copy files from Linux?... that aren't writeable or smtg.

The_BoneLESS · Post by **The_BoneLESS** » 14 May 2006, 23:38

Xiphias wrote:But still.. how do i copy files from Linux?... that aren't writeable or smtg.

Can't you just put the files on a CD ? They should work on Windows... well, not the Linux files ( the ones with weird extensions, not taken by Windows ).

Viper_KillerGuy · Post by **Viper_KillerGuy** » 15 May 2006, 11:17

Windows XP usually is and should be instlaled on a NTFS partition.

NTFS unfortunately isn't yet fully supportet in much yet, as far as i recall you can only write overwrite existing files with the same amount of data, Meaning you can't delete or write files on a NTFS partition.

That's why your windows drive is only mounted as read-only in knoppix/anything besides windows.

The only way of safely writing to a NTFS partition on a linux machine is to use a windows dll emulator to load the windows 98 ntfs dll driver and crazy-fix that to act as a linux go-between driver (Since this required the windows ntfs dll file, it won't be installed on knoppix as default because of the illegal thing).

However, you can boot up in knoppix and backup your drives to a fat32 partition somewhere. Ofc fat32 partitions are getting quite rare these days.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 15 May 2006, 12:50

petsen wrote:how ??? i cant figure out where to do that... and everyone says i should press f8 and shit, but i get some weird menu ...

f8 as start and you can choose safe mode there i think
not sure though

Viper_KillerGuy · Post by **Viper_KillerGuy** » 15 May 2006, 13:30

milagros wrote:
petsen wrote:how ??? i cant figure out where to do that... and everyone says i should press f8 and shit, but i get some weird menu ...
f8 as start and you can choose safe mode there i think
not sure though

His bios interceptet F8 and displayed a menu from which you could choose what device to boot from.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 17 May 2006, 15:32

Damn, my computer doesn't work either