need help with HD boot

[namnaz]

Hokay, here's the story:

I was pulling the power cord out of my video card a couple weeks ago and I broke off some module that was loosely connected to the board. When I booted the pc back up, I just got weird colors, so I went and got a new video card.

Now when I start my computer up, between the motherboard logo screen and where the windows xp screen should be, I get a black screen and then an error message saying my windows system file is missing or corrupt. It tells me to boot from my xp disk and try a repair installation, but when I try that and get into the repair (right after I select the drive that I want to repair) I get a blue screen with white lettering and everything freezes up.

I tried 2 different video cards just to make sure that the new one wasn't causing the problem, and I also stuck in a different hard drive with a fresh xp install on it, which booted fine.

Can anyone out there help me out at all? I'd really appreciate it.

 

[TheMajor]

Could you post the "white lettering".
Did it display any files at the system files error message?

 

[Cappy]

Try booting in safe mode uninstall the old card and drivers then install the new 1

 

[psydesign]

and if that does not work a good old format will do the trick

 

[namnaz]

The error I get when xp won't boot is this

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair."

I'll post the error message that's on the blue screen once I get home. (I'm at school right now)

And I can't boot into safe mode because I never get to the XP logo screen.

 

[TheMajor]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm