What do you see? When Windows tries but fails to boot, there are several possible displays you might see. These include a “black screen,” which essentially means nothing is on display at all.

IT web site TechRepublic suggests 10 things you can do to coax Windows XP into booting when it won't start up properly. The post covers everything fro ...

Hi all,This evening, I messed up a lot of Windows XP installations. I'm really worried, and I should fix the issue.What did I do: I used the two boot disks generated by Partition Magic 8.0 to ...

Obviously this isn't the wrong BIOS because I can boot, install a parallel WinXP and boot into the new install of XP.

If you can't boot Windows 11/10 PC using a bootable USB or flash drive, this post will help you find a working fix for boot issues with USB.

Mahenthiran K installed a second hard drive into his PC. The computer should still boot from the original drive, but it doesn’t boot at all. When you install a second hard drive in a PC, it ...

QUESTION:I just got a new HP laptop - Celeron, XP Pro, Service Pack 2. After I installed Sympatico the laptop will no longer start up. When I reboot it, it displays the desktop briefly with just ...

QUESTION: My computer keeps going into sleep mode and reboots but it never starts Windows XP. I've tried pressing the F8 key and it goes to the DOS mode, but when I select to start Windows it just ...

Use Advanced Startup Options or the Installation Media to perform System Restore when your Windows 11/10 PC does not boot to desktop.

And if you buy a new Mac or upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion before installing Windows using Boot Camp, you’d best have a Windows 7 installer handy, because Windows XP ain’t going to work.