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Bumptop stops laptop from booting to windows xp
Bumptop Installed on my Inspiron 8500 just fine, but when I restarted my machine, because it said that some visual effects could not load and it disables antialising, My machine would not boot windows. I continually get a blinking curser. I tried using windows xp repair tool but a diskcheck did not fix the problem. I attached the HDD to one of my desktops and uninstalled bumptop. I tried the laptop again and nothing. I deleted the install files and whatever windows search found in drive d as bumptop. I tried again and the laptop still doesn't boot. I don't know what else to do. Any help appreciated.
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Inappropriate?Hi there,
BumpTop will not cause Windows not to boot. We do not install any drivers, and we hook into the startup sequence via the user's Startup group. As a result, there is nothing that is loaded prior to the user logging in.
Has any other software been installed at around the same time? Especially now that you've already removed the BumpTop files... I can think of very little that would cause this.
Just to clarify: You boot past the BIOS splash screen (i.e. you see the Dell screen) then you see the Windows XP boot screen as well? How far does it go before you get the cursor? -
Inappropriate?Well, Bumptop did cause windows not to boot. I turned on my inspiron 8500 for one purpose: to install bumptop and show my physics teacher the physics enabled virus. What I got was a laptop that didn't reboot to windows. All I did on the laptop was install bumptop, nothing else. Bumptop prompted me to restart my machine to change the graphics settings and to turn off antialising. I restarted and the machine would only get the blinking curser. I installed bumptop on my desktop running win 7 and it ran fine, I don't know why it isn't letting my laptop boot. the laptop shows the dell logo on startup and passes bios. I am able to get into bios. I am not able to get to the f8 menu.after the bios loads I get a blinking curser continually. I tested the HDD to see if that was the problem, but it worked fine attached to a usb-ide adapter and I can easily read and write data to the HDD. I tested the laptop graphics card to see if the vid card dies. The other ide hdd I put in the laptop booted to windows just fine, and did not have bumptop installed on that drive. This leads me to one conclusion, bumptop messed up my windows registry. I tried using the win xp cd to reinstall windows. I reinstalled the os without reformatting the drive and the blinking curser was the only result. I tried doing a chkdsk and this did not fix the problem.I tried fixmbr and this did not fix the problem. All I am left is with a blinking curser. This laptop has not had a virus on it, or any malware, it has not been on the internet or connected to any other machine for long periods of time. notran antivirus is current and updated, malwarebytes is updated and adaware is updated as well.I scaned the machine last week as well and nothing was found on any program. The machine has run flawlessly and I don't know why bumptop messed up my laptop. I would like a solution to the problem, not what bumptop can and cannot do. I have nothing against bumptop, I would just like to know why I can't use my laptop anymore because of it. Thanks.
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