PC won't boot

[anagram]

A friend's pc won't boot,it starts up then just stops with a blank,blue screen.She's tried booting in safe mode but the same thing happens. Has anyone got any ideas what the problem could be?

Thanks

[Whickerman]

Is this the fabled 'blue screen of death'?

Are there any warning messages showing?

If not - it might sound obvious, but have her check that the monitor's properly connected.

[spacechimp]

I had that blue screen of death. Not that this helps anagram remotely.

[XxAnniexX]

I know this may sound stupid but does the pc give you any beeps when starting up? If so how many?

[foulecamp]

Could be anything - try www.pcmech.com/show/troubleshoot/14/ which gives you a list of beep codes.

[peanut]

that may be hard to do when the computer wont boot ;)

[jason1980]

Hi I had the same thing and apparently it was down to something called

NTDLR Missing.

You can find a NTDLR fix download somewhere on the net which you need to download from a different pc and transfer to cd, but as soon as you turn the broken pc on you need to press escape or whatever F button to access the bios and change it to run from disk drive first so it can access the cd with the program on.

http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing .htm

[spacechimp]

Have you tried running windows repair from the windows CD?

[polar_bear]

boot up from the Windows Bootable CD, then go to the Recovery Console (the
first Repair option you come to).

From the command prompt please type:

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
COPY CDDrive:\I386\NTLDR C:\
COPY CDDrive:\I386|NTDETECT.COM C:\
BOOTCFG /rebuild

After that, please reboot your computer.