Please help!!

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This has nothing to do with stardock or wincustomize but this is the only forum i have access too and there seems to be alot of smart people on wincustomize.com so i thought i'd try. ok Yesterday I Hooked my computer from my bedroom up to the internet to update windows xp to service pack 2. after waiting a long time for it to install it said it had finished and was performing clean up so i waited .... 2 and a half hours!!! everything looked like it was working though it said it was still "performing cleanup" but i could move the mouse and the little light that blinks on my computer was lit up solid the whole time. but then my computer started smelling like something was burning so i said screw this and tried to shut it down from the start menu as soon as i click the start button the computer restarted when It got to the windows boot screen it just rebooted by it self again so I shut it off manualy. and waited till this morning now every time i try to load it it just reboots even if i try to load in safe mode or any of the other options it either reboots or i get the blue screen of death. I tried booting from the cd but when it loads the cd I just get the blue screen again. I'm using legit copy of windows xp that contains service pack 1 on the disk Please can anyone help me!!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my computer started smelling like something was burning


I would say something may have been toasted here.

If you have the drives on one adapter (e.g., Primary adapter [IDE 0]), try connecting to the secondary adapter and booting.

Before booting, I would try pulling all but one stick of RAM and checking all connections for your Power Supply Unit, Video card, and IDE adapter.

Boot to BIOS and verify all devices are recognized and then boot from CD. If all goes well, try rebooting to the BIOS and boot to the hard drive to see if Windows will load. If you end up at the boot options screen, select "Last Known Good Configuration" and see if boot is possible.

If the CD was working, and the hard disc fails, you may have a corrupt MBR and/or drive data (unless of course the drive died).

Note - before checking these, smell the PSU (power supply unit) to see if that is what created the smell, and as always, ground yourself on the PSU housing before touching any components in the case.

Just a couple things to try.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One more item:

If you can load the XP CD and cannot boot the hard drive, you may be able to use the information here to use the Recovery Console to fix a number of issues http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/en-us
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thanx didn't excpect a reply that quick ill try some of those out