F8 into the Advance options & disable automatic reboot on crashes.
Then boot windows in normal mode

This will allow you too see the blue screen error message.

Hope this Helps....


BigJim wrote:
> it could be the hard drive is bad that is one of the symptoms/
> however it could just be a corrupt file. If you had a regular
> xp disk, you could try a repair installation which would save
> all the info on the dive. If your system has a diagnostics program run it.
> Most hard drive manufactures have diagnostic software so find out
> the name brand of your hard drive and go to their site and download
> the software to check the drive.
>
>
> "F. Baugher" <F. Baugher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:197E02E8-6A53-44E6-8418-7D688B11D5A3@microsoft.com...
> >I own a HP ze4805 laptiop. Today I got a blue screen on my computer with a
> > message that due to an internal kernal problem my computer was going to
> > shut
> > down; which it did. When I tried to reboot the f2 scewwn came up asking
> > me
> > if I wanted safe mode, etc. I tried safe mode; last good setting and so
> > on.
> > The computer tries to boot but I get a blue screen message that quickly
> > appears then disappears and the computer shuts off and restarts. I
> > inserted
> > the HP recovery disk in my CD drive; my computer will not boot from it
> > either. Any ideas abouts what's going on and how to fix it would be
> > greatly
> > appreciated.