[bigblair]

my friends computer was running for months without an anti virus, so i installed AVG and ran it, it found thousands of corrupted files, it deleted them and his computer failed to start, even in safe mode, so he then tried to reinstall XP, but that seemed to crash and now it fails to open in safe mode, and wont let him reinstall XP,
when you put computer on it goes thru the usual motions then just after the XP screen it goes black and says Floppy Diskette Search Error press F1 for continue and F2 for set up, now his computer doesnt have a floopy drive, i have an valuation copy of XP i am lending him till he ges the chance to get vista, i dont understand why his computer is doing this, any help would be great, i have run a hardware test, hardware is working fine

[SocialWarfare]

You could try resetting the CMOS, what type of motherboard does he have?

[bigblair]

motherboard type, im not sure the type, he doesnt have the manual

[evilfantasy]

Try booting the computer with the XP CD it and do a repair install.

[SocialWarfare]

You will have to open it up and check, it will be written on the board somewhere

[bigblair]

motherboard doesnt say on it and it wont let me reboot from the xp cd, it just doesnt do anything past the black screen with Floppy Diskette Search Error press F1 for continue and F2 for set up,

[bigblair]

the motherboard has Connely E187242 written on the board