Computer not booting properly

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I turned my computer on this morning and got the following message:

We apologize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.

Blah blah blah, I'm sure you've seen this message before.

Then it gave me the 5 startup options: Safe Mode, SM with networking, SM with command prompt, last known good configuration, start normally. All 5 options result in the machine restarting and coming up with the same error message.

I haven't added any new hardware and the only software I added recently was Noteworthy Composer. I took the case apart and reseated the drives, but it did not fix it. I tried booting from 3 different copies of windows xp, but it still took me to the same error message.

Ok you geniuses out there... go
 
The last time you turned your computer off, was it by the turn off command in windows or pressing the power button/power supply/ unplugging?

If it was the latter that is a typical thing windows does to regain lost memory after you shut it off, should start fine on "Start normally."

But I don't know about it restarting itself after that.
 
could also just be windows its self, my friends having the samething with xp pro sp2 on his lap and his laptop is fine so you never know it could just be the OS
 
Ive ran into that problem but it was because of my cmos...all i had to do was move the jumper to the reset pins on my mobo then back to normal. it worked fine after that.
 
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Ive ran into that problem but it was because of my cmos...all i had to do was move the jumper to the reset pins on my mobo then back to normal. it worked fine after that.
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That sounds pretty plausible, I wish I had read that before I did a repair install of windows. Anyway, problem resolved. Nothing lost. Hooray.
 
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