anyone know about red screen of death

[ray]

Hi friend of mine phoned me because when he turned his computer on he got a
red screen of death,and since then the operating system will not boot.
it is in a loop of some sort,on switching on told to click to start the
operating system but it keeps going back into a loop.
is it a virus causing this or hardware?
he need help but he lives to far for me to get there.
ray

 

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"ray" <ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi friend of mine phoned me because when he turned his computer on he got
> a
> red screen of death,and since then the operating system will not boot.
> it is in a loop of some sort,on switching on told to click to start the
> operating system but it keeps going back into a loop.
> is it a virus causing this or hardware?
> he need help but he lives to far for me to get there.
> ray