M x41 will not boot says boot overload and shuts off, tries to boot and so on
Have you tried booting in Safe Mode?
Turn off the computer, then hit the power button to turn itback on and immediately start hitting the F8 key repeatedly until you see SAFEMODE. Take the Safe Mode option and let it boot up. Safe Mode will lookdifferent to you, the screen will be darker and the icons bigger, this isnormal.
Have you looked into the Bios or System Setup and made sure you are booting from the right device (Hard Drive first)?
If you have a repair disc or operating system disc you can try to run the Check Disk Utility.
To run the check disk utility you will need a repair disc or a operating system disc. Put the disc in the cd drive and boot from it. You want to get to the Dos Command Prompt (Black screen with white letters) and type the following command: chkdsk /r
Check disk will run well over an hour or two and you will notice the percentages going from high to low, this is normal. Let it run to completion. Then reboot machine.
If check disk fails to solve your problem you might have to reinstall windows. Try doing a Repair Install that way you don't loose your data, documents, music, pictures, videos or programs.
In windows xp you get to the dos command prompt by selecting R for repair when the options appear.
In Vista and Windows 7 you want to get to the recovery console and look down at the bottom of the window for the Dos Command.
If Check Disk does not solve the problem, looks like you will either have to Reinstall the Operating System or Try a System Recovery.
They might have a Recovery Partition already loaded on your hard drive. Click Start/My Computer and see if there is a Recovery Partition drive. Sometimes the drive might be hidden. You can check the user manual too to see what it says about System Recovery.
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thanks but will not boot from safe mode ether , should have stated that
ibm do not have recovery cds
ibm x41 will not boot
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