Windows fails to boot.

i held it down while the dog**** logo, i mean emachine logo was on the screen it made a series of clicking noises and then went to the failed startup screen again.... it did cause the 30 seconds til windows starts thing to stop then disappear

I would say your best bet at this point is to try resetting BIOS. All setting will go back to default. There are two ways to erase these dynamic settings, by either resetting a jumper on the motherboard itself (referred to as a "clear CMOS" jumper) you move it from pins 1 and 2 to pins 2 and 3 then turn on the computer, or by physically remove the power from the computer (disconnecting the power plug) and then removing a battery(on the motherboard), wait a few minutes and reinsert the battery, reconnect the power plug, and then try to enter BIOS again.

got a link for instructions on how to do either of those... im somewhat computer saavy but not expert.

Do you know how to remove the case? Not the front panel just the case.

If so. Unplug your computer at the power supply so that there is no power source going into your computer. Remove the case. Look at the motherboard there will be a round battery clipped in that looks like



Remove this battery,

Wait 5 minutes,

Clip back in battery,

put the case back on,

plug in power source to power supply,

turn on computer and attempt to enter BIOS

okay so i found the battery, unplugged the comp, took out the battery then put it back in and powered it back up... now it wont do **** and beeps at me every 5 seconds.

What is the beep code -> is it the same beep every 5 seconds or does it alternate one low one high, also could be one short one long.

same beep every 5 seconds... do you know who produces the BIOS for peicEmachines?

Repeated Long Beeps = almost always Memory Error

You should have 2 sticks of RAM

power down, remove 1 stick of RAM then try to boot into bios again, if it doesn't work try the other stick

okay the memory error is fixed but i still cant seem to get into bios, i held f1 and it still goes to the failed boot screen.... i did see a flash of the windows loading screen before it died this time.

instead of holding F1 try tapping F1 all through the boot up

im in bios del key did it

and what now lol... heres where my skill ends. heh.

excellent now use the arrow keys and go over to something similar to 'boot order' hit enter, then select your hard drive in the primary slot and hit enter, select your drive that has your winxp cd in it hit enter. F10 to save and exit.

okay i changed the boot order to hard disk, then cd rom.. still comes up as failed to start and wont respond when i try to start windows.

just realized my error and changed the order back to cdrom then hard drive

its booting from cd now... not sure how far this will get.

With the CD inserted and the boot order set to the CD rom being primary (make sure you saved changes before exiting) you get the same exact error. and what is it saying exactly

should i attempt to do a repair?

i had inadvertently changed to order to HD then CD... this is the first time ive been able to get booting from CD to work... perhaps this is progress.

before when i had the cd inserted and attempted to boot from the disc it just stopped responding.

from the welcome screen choose "R" for recovery.

You will be asked which Windows installation you wish to access. Choose the only one that should be there.

Now a prompt for your administrator password will appear. Enter it and continue (if no password, press enter).