Malke.......I was just surfing around for tooling and it just froze up. I
could not click on anything at the time, had to maually shut down . I waited
about 30 sec. before restarting and could not open up anything so I maually
shut down once again. Tried two more times and nothing. Since I did not have
hardly nothing saved I figured that I would do a factory restore. It started
restoring to this point *WINDOWS XP HOME EDIION SEUP* you have three choices
to pick from. At this point, my mouse could not click on ENER to setup or the
other two, nothing, once again, I had to manually shut down. Waited for 30
sec. and restarted it up, got to this same spot and still nothing happened.
Removed the cd and shut down. Restarted it and open with a blue window saying
* setup is being restarted......* and then it just stays at this point,
nothing.

"Malke" wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
> > I started to restore my Windows XP back to factory condition but
> > freezes up where it says: Windows XP Home Edition Setup..Welcome to
> > Setup with the three options (Press ENER to setup..Press *R* for
> > repair and Press *F3* to quit. I tried to click on setup but nothing
> > happens, tried repair and the same thing and same to quit. Just
> > freezes up at this point. When I reboot, I only get the blue window
> > and nothing else and still can not do anything to get a full restore.
>
> What problems were you having that caused you to want to do a restore?
> From your description of the state of the computer now, I would say you
> have some hardware failure but would need more information from you in
> order to be more specific.
>
> Malke
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