Windows XP won't boot after a power cut. Technical Q
This is my problem..
After a split second power cut the PC rebooted itself, it booted normally but a new black screen appeared after the Packard Bell "BIOS options F2 and F8" with the following message appeared: "PXE-E61 Media Test Failure Check Cable" Looked this message up on the internet and it says most likely the cable is not plugged in or connected, Could be a bad cable, NIC or connection.
After this screen it gives me the options: Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Debugging, Last Know Configuration, Start Windows Normally.
I've tried each one of these and after a couple of seconds of the Windows XP logo loading, I get the blue screen.
The message on the screen is a "STOP" message, it seems to me as though the power cut has corrupted the hard drive and its connections because it can't boot up windows and can't read anything from the hard drive. I can't get any further after the blue screen.
I've also opened the box up and changed the cable to test the connection (the only cable I've tried is the one which plugs into the blue socket in the motherboard) and still no luck. I have also tried re-installing XP but going through the Recovery Option first on the xp disk but nothing was happening so I turned it off, tried re-installing xp option this time and I get the following error: "ASPI.sys or ACPI.sys file corrupt" I can't remember which .sys one it was.
I think after trying to do this, the xp CD has messed up my BIOS completely and a lot of files have been corrupted, I've left it at that.
Can anyone help?