[HLUG] Broken Boots

[Chris Owens]

  Hi Folks

     Sorry to trouble you with a tricky one.

Have been running Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 on an IBM T40 no probs for 
over a year - in fact almost forgot about Windows. Then fiddled with 
Power Management to try and optimise Energy use in downtimes with little 
success. Re-boots and/or Wake ups completely shambolic, anything from 
completely successful restart with open programmes etc to several kernel 
panics. Gave up but then noticed Windows no longer accessible and I 
cannot re-load it.

     Present situation
         1. On Power Up T40 boots straight to Grub Menu in say 20 secs 
no sign of usual Hard Drive/Memory start up messages.
         2. Pressing Access IBM to enter BIOS no longer works but BIOS 
can still be entered using F2. (BIOS Version 2.12 (1RET85WW) Device Boot 
Order: Floppy>
             CD-ROM> HD  confirmed
         3. Selecting Ubuntu 10.04 from Grub Menu boots normally to a 
fully functional system.
                     os-prober confirms /dev/sda1:MS Windows XP 
Prof:Windows:chain
                     GParted partitions look OK
                     Windows partition accessible quite normally from Ubuntu
BUT  4. Selecting Windows XP from Grub Menu boots to a Windows B&W 
Screen requesting type of Windows Start up Safe Mode, Normal Boot etc 
all of which
             lead to Blue Screen of death with insufficient time to note 
down 'problem' hex-dec addresses but the first is STOP: 0x0000007B.

         5. Interrupting Windows XP boot from Grub Menu (pressing Access 
IBM button) returns: Authentication of System Services failed. <ESC> to 
Resume. Press
<ESC> and you get back to Grub Menu

         6. Starting up with either Windows XP or Ubuntu Live CD has no 
effect. T40 ignores content of the CD-ROM Drive and goes straight to 
Grub Menu.

I am sorry this is a bit of a rambling post but I haven't a clue what 
the problem is or how to fix it but would very much appreciate any help

Thanks everybody

Chris