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Hi Everyone, I hope someone has an answer for me
I have a Compaq Presario, with XP on it. It has jammed on the very first screen, which is the Compaq screen. I have f1 and f10 options, that are not responding, esc does nothing, and ctrl-alt-delete basically does nothing. I had this prob about a month ago, and discovered I had the backweb program running. backweb comes preinstalled on HP puta's. So i deleted that, and all appeared well. But its happened again. Have no load? or start up? disk, guess I should have made one of those?.....
So, please, if anyone has any ideas for me, i would be truly grateful. I did see a post at some other place about d/ling a load or start up disk, but im nervous about trusting a site none of you recommended. Please help me.

Hmm, this is a strange one
Tried starting in Safe Mode? And do you have XP Home, or XP Pro?

yer that does sound kinda weird, safe mode sounds like a good place to start and @least then you can correct any errors resonably easy, if safe mode dont work then your task could become slightly harder

Thanx Guys. I dont think I can start in safe mode, as its the very first screen it's stopped on. I am pretty new to puta's, so perhaps i am missing something, or maybe there is something I still dont know. But what I am sure of, is that the only screen I get is the black Compaq (in red letters) screen. I dont have any options, other than the unresponsive f1 and f10. No safe mode option, as far as I can tell. In the last couple of hours Ive been advised to use the XP boot cd. not a floppy, and not the start up disc, but the boot cd. So now Im on the hunt for that. Anybody know if its downloadable? If so, a good place to d/l it? Thanx for your help.

by the way, hee hee, its XP home. Cheers

My last pc was a Compaq Presario, I had a simular problem; It wouldnt go past the red/black screen.

Took it to my computer fix it man who said it was shot (that it was trying to crash around my ears)...it had a few other problems though. So I had him put the storage from it into this one.

The fact that I paid around 1500$ Canadian for it and it only lasted me two years made me incredibly mad; on the upside...up until about two months ago, I was STILL using the keyboard from it

he means the boot cd as in your windows XP home cd, i think he's telling you 2 install again, i have booted and installed many times.. although not through choice either!!

Hopefully, you still have the Compaq restoration disk. You should be able to use that to restore your windows config, if not I think you will need to start fresh. That means formatting the ole C: drive.

i got a compaq restore disk although i have never had a compaq

i was given or brought a old 56k years ago and he gave me loads of disks with it as he did'nt know which was the driver, he claimed it was on the compaq disk although i never did find it

You could make an iso of that disk and share it so Mable could get it from you on WinMX

mable could also put £1000 in my paypal account 1st thing 2moz!!!

yer ill have a look and see where it is and do a job on it and get it knocked up!!

well, thanx for all your ideas, and offers to recieve my $$ . it turned out to be poked. hadit. dead. over and out. just a doorstop.
so what did i do, got another one
well, it was under warranty, so i didnt really have any other choice.
but im back, and thats all i really care about for now

welcome back mable

WB make sure u have the boot disk this time

but yeah if u ever want to try starting in safe mode, hold F8 at the start up

As I,m sure most of you know microsoft prefer the O/S software to be pre-installed on the Hard disk. This sounded like the situation above.
I often advise ppl to get a copy of Xp and use the key from their system (which is supplied on a sticker or a peice of card from the computer supplier ), and use it like that. I see no benefits to the customer of pre-installed software. Maybe the suppliers like to get paid to install free service packs and upgrades which you can only get from them?