Cannot get past windows loading screen HELP!

nukelemon · #1 25th Oct 2008, 14:51

Hey yesterday i turned my acer 5102 WLMi laptop off for the night . I woke up to find that it would turn on but after the windows xp loading sign came on ( with the scrolling loading bar) for a few seconds it would shutdown and boot back up and go in an endless loop until the battery was taken out. I need to know how to solve this problem . Thank you.

Processor: AMD Turion TL50 1.6ghz dual core

Video Card: ATI radeon xpress 1300

Running windows xp home edition

120gb PATA HDD

1 GB of DDR2 RAM

**Hybr!d** · #2 25th Oct 2008, 15:12

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

nukelemon · #3 25th Oct 2008, 17:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

What has to be 1st in my boot order , for the xp cd to be recognized here is my current boot order

1. IDE 0
2. IDE 1
3. SATA
4. PCI BEV: Realtek Boot Agent
5. USB HDD
6. USB CDROM
7. USB FDD
8. USB KEY

**philthomas** · #4 26th Oct 2008, 05:05

Have a look in Device Manager/IDE ATA ATAPI Controllers .... right click each channel, select Properties/Advanced ......... you should then find your CD Drive & which IDE Channel you need.

Having said that ..... is there not an Acer Recovery Disk, with this model ?

nukelemon · #5 26th Oct 2008, 08:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by philthomas

Have a look in Device Manager/IDE ATA ATAPI Controllers .... right click each channel, select Properties/Advanced ......... you should then find your CD Drive & which IDE Channel you need.

Having said that ..... is there not an Acer Recovery Disk, with this model ?

well i cant even acess windows the furthest i can get is to the windows loading screen and the bios.I do have acer recovery disks but i dont know if there meant to run without an interface like the windows xp cd is. My only problem now is trying to find the right boot order , so that my windows xp cd is recognized.

**philthomas** · #6 26th Oct 2008, 11:18

Normally the Recovery Disk(s) will return the Laptop to factory settings .... try rebooting with the Recovery disk and see if you are presented with Recovery options.

nukelemon · #7 26th Oct 2008, 19:46

thanks guys i wiped out my C drive and re-installed windows everything is fine and running except for my sounds drivers do not work , suppose il make another post on that

cheers.

**philthomas** · #8 27th Oct 2008, 05:55

Glad you managed to sort it out ... have a look here for the sound drivers