pc wont boot

[silent111]

I friend is having probs with his pc, the pc goes through the mem check and hdd check at start up then checks the irq settings after that all he gets its a little flashing cursor in the bottom left of the screen and hangs.

This problem happened after he was working on word and got a blue screen after that got the above problem.

Any help please.

 

[Rik]

Without knowing anything about the pc its impossible to help.

 

[N3051M]

My System Specs (#1):
Windows xp sp 2
Processor:
P4 Prescott 3.0ghz
Motherboard:
ASROCK P4V88+
Memory:
DDR PC 3200 2x1gb, 2x256mb (dual channel)
Cooling:
Arctic cooler (CPU)
Videocard:
Nvidia 7800GS 256mb Extreme Edition AGP
Soundcard/Speakers:
Via 3059 series audio controller
Hard Disk(s):
samsung 60gbs + seagate 40gbs
Other Drives:
1xdvd reader, 1xdvd writer DL
My System Specs (#2):
Dads PC
Processor #2:
AMD Athlon XP 1.67Ghz
Motherboard #2:
Microstar Inc MS-6511
Memory #2:
SDRAM 1024 MBytes PC133
Videocard #2:
ATI Radeon 9600 Series AGP 256MB
Soundcard/Speakers #2:
On board sound card
Hard Disk(s) #2:
Maxtor 40Gb

Now with that formality out of the way... (if this is the system we're talking about here yes?)

Check the BIOS settings or maybe reset CMOS and see if it made any difference.

try booting with a windows cd>recovery console and see if you can read the contents of your C:\windows drive. Alternatively you can get a live linux cd and use that to see your hdd or put it as slave into another pc available. If you do get in there, find a folder named Minidump [drive:\windows\minidump] and post that here.