EMEMGENCY....XP will not boot up!!!

[rreed55]

I have been working all morning with absolutly no luck. I came home to my parents house and was running some maintnence on their computer, checking for spyware/adware, and left the room and the computer had rebooted and I was getting errors such as an 0x800705a error when i tried to boot up, I tried a few more things and came up with more erors such as, error loading line 422, and cann't initialize userint.exe. I am unable to to get booted up at all. each time it stops me as i try to load windows. I am unable to boot up in safe mode, or load my last "good" configuration. When i try to repair the system, booting up from my windows CD, it tells me "cannot normaly execute the initial settings of partition information. This utility exists and your computer is rebooted." I am out of ideas.

Their anti-virus program was expired as well.....

Some of the other specs are it is a pentium 4 processor....i'm not sure how fast...80 gb HD, with 512 mb or RAM. It is runing Windows XP, w/o service pack 2.

Thanks
Ryan

 

[skyking]

Download and burn an ultimatebootcd, if you have access to another computer with a burner.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com

On that cd are tools for testing the ram and the hard drive. If they test OK, then I don't know what to say. if you are familiar with doing a repair install of xp, and can't seem to do it on this computer, then I would suspect a hardware issue of some sort.