well, the problem was that the PC kept on rebooting and wouldn't boot in safe
mode either. So I thouht of reinstalling the OS. Finally, last night I was
able to reinstall ME after having reloaded and reformatted atleast 5-6 times,
everything went well and I was able to upgade the PC to XP Pro as well. Then
I downloaded an oaded yahoo msgr, netscape & MSN msgr was also loaded and
then when I loaded skype, it started to reboot continuously and wouldn't
allow me to log in the safe mode either... then I thought of going through
the whole process again (loading ME with the recovery CDs and then upgrading
to XP with the upgrade CD), but then thrice I tried to load ME and everytime,
when both recovery CD's are loaded, it gives a terminating error and shuts
down the PC. If the PC is just switched on, it says that it doesn't have any
OS. So don't know what to do....

Please help......

"Ian Shef" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?U2Ft?= wrote in
:

When I purchased my PC, I had Windows ME. Later I upgraded it to Windows
XP professional 2002 (Service pack 2). A couple of days ago, my PC
crashed. So I thought of using the recovery CD's that came with the PC
when I bought it. It seems that I have successfully re-installed Windows
ME and after I took out the recovery CD from the CD ROM drive, it
rebooted (as it had instructed me). After rebooting, it is stuck on the
very first screen (black screen) where it shows the PCI device
listing.... I had thought that once ME is reinstalled and the PC reboos,
I'll upgrade it to XP professional (since I only have the upgrade CD of
XP professional) Can someone please help....
Sam


Why reinstall ME ? I don't think that you need to do this.

You should be able to use your XP Pro upgrade CD (as long as you can boot
from a CD). Just have your ME CD available to provide evidence of an upgrade
when the installation program asks for it.

But...
.... what do you mean by "crashed"? Could this have anything to do with the
problems that you are having now?

An OS crash does not usually involve reinstalling the OS. If your hardware
died, then no amount of installs is going to fix it. What really happened?



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