Ok a friend has a problem and asked to post this here for him.
When he switches on, after the e-machines loading screen, a black screen appears with white writing, Basicly it says that there was some kind or error* and there are around 5-6 Options he could choose to click on like "Run windows normal", he has has clicked on each of these and it shows the "windows" screen with the little tool thing at the bottom loading, then it switches off, and comes back to that screen.
Also tried pressing f8 to try to start in safe mode but nothing happens.
*The error message says that it could of been because of a recent hardware change or power faliure and that both of these havent happened.
But not sure if the pc was turned off correctly last time by his sister.
Also has no windows disks available. He is running Windows XP sp2.
If any more info is needed then I will try to find it out. Hope you can help, Thanks.
~Phil
When he switches on, after the e-machines loading screen, a black screen appears with white writing, Basicly it says that there was some kind or error* and there are around 5-6 Options he could choose to click on like "Run windows normal", he has has clicked on each of these and it shows the "windows" screen with the little tool thing at the bottom loading, then it switches off, and comes back to that screen.
Also tried pressing f8 to try to start in safe mode but nothing happens.
*The error message says that it could of been because of a recent hardware change or power faliure and that both of these havent happened.
But not sure if the pc was turned off correctly last time by his sister.
Also has no windows disks available. He is running Windows XP sp2.
If any more info is needed then I will try to find it out. Hope you can help, Thanks.
~Phil