Tried F2.."Load Setup Defaults"...no change; Tried F8 but only provides me "Select Boot Device"...does not show "Safe Mode". Tried XP CD but it doesn't recognize it (black screen); Loaded copy of XP Quick.exe (Bootdisk.com/Boot.ini/ntldr/ntdetect) but it tells me "Windows could not start because file is missing or corrupt WINDOWS ROOT>\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL ..REINSTALL A COPY OF THE ABOVE FILE. The software mgr. indicates to ignore this message and to load a boot.ini file to my C drive....but HOW?