ha ha teach you to ask,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I was about to do a re-format and I have the XP home disk, but when I put it in the computer I got the following message on a "BLUE" screen

A problem has been detected and Window's has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this STOP ERROR screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controller. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restrat your computer.

Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7A22524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000

Thats the end of the message I did not want to manually shut down the computer until I could have someone see this message. Since the only way I can re-start the computer is to manually shut it down and then turn it back on. Should I leave the Win XP home disk in the drive in case it should boot up or what??

Thank you,, Rich

Leave it in, cross your fingers, stand on your LEFT foot, and circle a piece of yellow string over head - Power Down & Back Up ;-)

You should be asked to Press Any Key if You want to Boot from the CD. Please press away....

That did not happen,,(maybe because I had to use a red string,, lol) same error came up,, I am doing a regular boot up without the XP Disk and going to type in the CHKDSK /F and see what ir say's,, Be right back

OK,, ChkDsk /F went through without any messages and then Windows satrted up and the Blue screen message came back up again,,,Grrrrr, you got a yellow string? lol

it booted up normally when I went to do the CHKDSK thing so what now Red Rider??

Should I try booting up the XP disk after the computer comes up normally?

Are you able to get into Windows normally? If so, then sure! You will be asked to format while you are stepping through the screens.

I'll mail yellow string out next....

don't worry about the yellow string, I just dyed one yellow, maybe that will work, lol

OK will try installing the disk now as it does boot up normally

BOX CAME UP AND IS TITLED "gET uPDATED fILES" THEN BELOW it has a remark: "to make sure you have updated files, Setup can use your Internet connection to check the MS Web site.

This requires the temporary collection of some information about your computer hardware. No personal information will be collected.

then have to tick one of these;

o Yes, download the updated files (Recommened)
o No, skip this step and continue installing windows

Should I just click on "NO" since I will have to update everything when all is said and done?

Well while waiting I went ahead and clicked on "NO",, it went through several things going past where it did before BUT then when I thought all was going good that darned message came up again. Think I will go back and try clicking on "YES" and see what happens,,,,,,,,,,