Windows XP - Dell Inspiron E1505 - cannot reboot

[at54]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\root\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_mfeavfk01

Right click on that, and select Delete Key. Save the changes, exit and try the reboot to Safe Mode.
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Completed above instructions:
Still in a reboot loop - system gets to SafeMode screen...tried reboot in regular and Safemode and Last Known...all keeps looping to Safemode screen.

[Jintan]

Can you think of any procedure to do where you can cause another BSOD to occur? Then try the most complete reboot you can, locate and offload any minidump files to check?

[at54]

ok, sorry you got me - tried to figure it out but I'm clueless...what is a BSOD?

[Jintan]

Blue Screen Of Death, but in all honesty, if I am asking for you to create one of those it means I am at a loss for ideas. This scenario has been amazingly tantalizing by going in and out of a partial bootup, but if you look back, there has never been a point where it approached a semblance of normalcy. I think we have lost.

[at54]

BSOD - got it...and not good news for me...

Question:  in addition to the Dell XP Pro reinstallation disk, there is also an unopen Dell drivers and utilities disk...is this useful in any way?

[Jintan]

The reinstall disk is the key. The drivers disk usually supplement that, and are only for those occasions where some driver gets corrupted, and needs to be returned.

But our real issue here is that regardless of how much great work you have done there, we have yet to get the system back to any stable situation to work from. And as time goes by, and we make these many changes, that can move slowly but inevitably further and further away from our grasp. Or has.