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Windows XP question

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Taggart

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I had an Intel P4 with Intel motherboard that would power on but not boot. The initial Intel motherboard screen would come up, but the boot process wouldn't proceed from there. I had a black screen with the power on but no activity. I then booted from the XP CD and tried to run the repair utility. It seemed like the program bombed (I tried to run the utility but it didn't run...it took me to a command prompt instead).

The PC then booted into Windows fine without the boot disk. Does anyone know what the utility program might have done to fix the problem? I thought it didn't work since the repair utility program didn't run.

Thanks!
 
The "repair utility" is exactly what you saw: a repair console. It lets you execute commands from the command line against your existing Windows install.

I can't say why that actually "fixed" your issue. It could be coincidental that your PC booted successfully after launching the repair console.
 
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