Windows xp rebooting how to load repair cd by changing bios?

Hi,

I have windows xp on a 3 year old machine, intel processor, asus motherboard.I had some pretty nasty viruses on it and i installed a free antivirus which was finding quite a few viruses, anyway i found i couldnt restart in safe mode as i wanted to run virus scanner there as i noticed as soon as i turned the net on my computer went unusable. It was getting stuck on mup.sys when loading safe mode, i heard that if you ran the windows xp disk and selected repair you could disable the mup.sys and run safe mode then run antivirus. Problem was my comp said a newer version of xp was running, so i read that you should uninstall sp2, so i did that and it needed the xp cd to replace files after uninstalling. Then i rebooted with the cd in to start up repair after altering the bios the load the cd first before the harddrive, the cd started but stopped then the black windows screen loads there is a screen flash and it reboots over and over. I tried changing the bios to load back to the harddri

Windows xp rebooting how to load repair cd by changing bios?norten

well .. ur system may be damaged now ... i would first try loading bios defaults ... then set it back to boot from the cd and see if it will let u get up to the point of choosing partitions ... select the current partition with xp on it then it will give u a repair option ... if not u may ned to recover any files u need by slaving the drive in another machine then wipe it out on that machine before replacing it in urs ... then install windows ..

Windows xp rebooting how to load repair cd by changing bios?panda

You will probably need to wipe the drive clean and zero it out and then do a full reformat.

You didn't need to mess with your BIOS to change boot options, just hit F12.