Installation of labview has caused infinite loop, what can be done now?

[gwels001]

I have recently installed an out-of-the-box student version of LabView7 in an attempt to familiarize myself with the differences between LV 6 and LV 7. The program worked for about 1 hour before crashing and locking my system up. I eventually decided to try a hard reboot of my system. The OS (windows XP) is now experiencing an infinite loop on boot up. I need to know if there is anything that can be done with the exception of erasing my hard drive by re-installing XP.

[dan bookwalter]

i am not exactly sure where this loop is happening but try booting to SAFE mode.... keep hitting the F8 key during bootup. when you see a menu of available XP startup modes pick SAFE MODE. if you believe that LabVIEW is the culprit uninstall LV and try rebooting

good luck

Dan

[gwels001]

Thank you for your response Dan. Yes, I had tried that as well as booting in the last known working configuration. The system would not enter XP no matter what I did. The boot up sequence automatically presented the screen for safe/normal/last config./etc. modes. The system would begin to load and then would flash a blue screen of death and return to the safe/normal/lst config./etc. mode screen.

I decided to go ahead and re-format my hard drive last night. It is a pain to have to reload everything and there are a few items which weren't backed up that were lost but, I have my system again.

Thanks for your input Dan. Have a good day.