Hello, My son downloaded a new screen saver for his PC, he rebooted it, Now it just keeps Rebooting, it starts to load XP then reboots . is there a fast fix, i dont feel like redoing his PC AGAIN!!!! lol thanks

Hello, and Welcome to techhelpforum.

Can you boot the machine into Safe Mode?

If so, go to Start, Run, type in chkdsk /f c: (if C: is your O/S drive. If not, adjust the drive letter accordingly.)

If this fails, boot into Safe Mode again, and in the Run box type in fixmbr.

Post back with your results.

No i cant get it into safe mode. I got it one time and it wouldnt load into safe mode, it just reboots

Boot the machine with your XP CD.

When you're told to "Press any key to boot from CD", hit the Space bar.

At the 'Welcome to Setup' screen, press r for Repair.

When the machine is done loading, type in;

Chkdsk /f

When it's fininshed, try booting normally.

If it still won't boot, repeat the above, this time type in;

Fixmbr

Thanks again , but still no luck, once u load Cd in and hit space bar, went into windows xp set up the blue screen, where it would load drivers well it locks up and stays on the screen, and nothing happens, i got it into safe mode, and locked up again and restarted. any other ideas? would be great. im now thinking i might not even be able to reload xp on it, i could NUKE the hard drive but idk.

thanks ahead of time Joe

At the 'Welcome to Setup' screen, were you able to press r for Repair?

Is the machine booting from the CD? ie; Is the CD set as the first boot device in the bios?

it locks up as soon as the windows set up screen come up( the blue one) even if u press R, and i change it to 1st boot dont matter. it asked to hit any key. I hit space bar, went to the blue screen to load file i hit R and it lockeds up every time. it boots the windows set up screen and thats all i waitted 30 mins it didnt do anything . it even locks up if u dont hit R

If you know the make of hard disk in this problem machine, I suggest you test it;

Hard Disk Analysis Tools - Major manufacturers

They have floppy and CDROM image files, some of which are bootable utilities.

Is there a floppy drive in this machine?

um lol i think its a W.D its not here at tthis time its at my mother inlaws lol your thinking the hard drive might be bad, some fruit told her the mother board is junk, but i have the same Elite group in one of mine i cant find any problems with hers, it just locks up tryn to run set up

Have you tested this hard disk?