David, see if you can start it in safe mode...You might have to press the F5 key when it starts up...
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "David J Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Its snowing and frezing rain here, roads are littered with people who > forget we get winter about this time, so i thought i would go through > our last two trips to Vegas, pick out the keepers and take them to > Wally world or such for 4x6 prints. > > Turned on the PC(XP home, P4) and had a heck of a time getting it > going. The Pentium screen shows up, then a DOS screen saying Boot > Failure: System stopped. > > Tried several on and offs, then tried control alt delete and it started up. > > Is this the start of a big problem, or possibly a hit and miss thing. > > It worked fine yesterday. > > I'll run a virus scan etc aswell today. > > Any thoughts. > > I do have the disk that came with the computer, and MDG model, sort of > our version of a Dell. > > Dave > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

