hi
i have a advent 7014 laptop.i have has no trouble until now but when turning it on the other day it came up that windows xp wont start .it is giving 5 options ,start insafe mode, safe mode with networking ,safe mode with command prompt, last known good configuration and start windows normally. i have tried all these without success.i get the windows xp logo come up as if its loading then it just goes back to the cant start info page with the 5 options .any idea what is going on or if there is anything i can do to rectify this
thanks
phil

Hmm I think there's something wrong with your RAM? Windows cannot load all the startup programs because there's short of memory.

i have a advent 7014 laptop using windows xp.for some unknown reason and out of the blue it has decided not to load.when turning on the laptop i get the windows xp logo then a page telling me it will not load and 5 options .i have tried all 5 from safe mode to normal mode without success . is there any help someone might be able to offer me in rectifying this ?
thanks

Did Advent supply you with Recovery Disks?

to be honest i cant remember whether they did or not . ive put everything in a safe place which is so safe i cant remember where lol. and in any case would not be much good due to cdrom/dvd not working after dropping something on the keyboard right above the cd rom .it was one of those things that ye always going to get fixed but never get round to it( guess whos regretting it now ? ) i was wondering if i could download a recovery disc from windows website onto floppy disc?

You can get the 6 floppy boot setup disks here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

Make sure to get your proper version: e.g. XP Pro SP2 or what have you.

This will take you to the Recovery Console:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314058

I would try chkdsk /r first.

If that doesn't help try:

FIXMBR

Or next:

FIXBOOT