Boot disk for XP

**wumply** · January 25th, 2004, 04:07 AM

Thanks. rik, where did you find that information you quote about establishing automated an system reovery. I would like to do that once I get my current problem corrected. That won't help me much at the moment though because I've never created an ASR and my problem is NOW.

But I couldn't find it anywhere in XP's Help and Support, nor did I find it (what you included in your reply) in any of the online MS references (articles) to which Help and Support sent me. And if it's somewhere in my home edition XP, I don't know where to look.

FYI Only. My computer came back from the repair shop and it was working there. But since it has twice frozen (once with a blue screen) and I was able to get it going and working normally by shutting power off and then turning it on again. Only sometimes it would do weird things like produce a bios screen, a 'Windows Home Edition' screen and a completely black screen, the 3 of which alternated (1-2-3) 4-5 times--and then my computer suddenly booted and worked normally. At the moment it's working perfectly.

I don't feel knowledgeable enough to try and repair it at all. Guess I'll try walking into repair places and ask them if they can fix it and hope I find someone who says confidently: "Yeah, I can probably fix that!"

**zipp51** · January 25th, 2004, 05:36 AM

You know that sounds like a power supply problem Wumply.I've run across a few machines that have trouble starting and even restarting.A new power supply solved the problem for the majority and one defective motherboard for one that had trouble restarting.Depending on what kind of motherboard you have I would buy a new power supply first,otherwise it will cost a lot more if you bring it to a shop and have them try to figure out an intermittant problem like yours.If the power supply does not work you can take it back and say that it didn't fit your case.Let us know if you want to try this and someone here will walk you through it step by step.