Dell comp everytime I boot up my comp will go into sleep mode and then it will finally let me get it booted up and will run then it will go into sleep mode again

I'd replace the fan motor.

Try booting into safe mode restart comp and its 1 of the f buttons f5 or something ea model number is different when in safe mode make sure you go to safe with networking and download new drivers of that doesn't work let me know ill walk u thru how to Chang the way you boot up your pc

depends on your comp, but some you can get out of sleep mode by hitting the F5 button, others by hitting the Ctrl and Alt at the same time and hit Esc while holding them down..

hey , first go to same mode in ur PC by pressing F7 .
thenblue window will appear so there select normal mode . thus ur PC will never go to sleep mode.

sounds like sleep mode created a conflict while downloading updates.and your pc is still in sleep mode..about the only thing you can try,is reinstalling everything..may work may not

Try hitting F8 key to access the windows boot menu, Choose safe mode. If you can not get in to windows that way, you will need to reinstall windows.

Check the power setting in control panel of windows. If you have a monitor from another computer swap them and see if the problem stays with the computer or monitor.

One of two things:

Either the power supply is marginal

or

the motherboard is bad.

Good luck.

I've seen this on many Dell machines, and I've found no real fix for this. It seems that this function either works or it doesn't. You can do a restore back to a point that you remember it working properly, but eventually it will start doing it again. I've decided that this is a glitch with Dell's systems. You can also do a bios update from Dell's support site, sometimes this helps with the little glitch they pick up.

go into your BIOS and on the bottom of your screen there should be a (last good config) of (fail-safe config) value for one or=f the F1 to F12 buttons. also. are you running a 4gb hdd??? or is that a typo? anyhow, XP REQUIRES 2GB at all times free if your hdd is running at less that that (cause its full) your boot up could be messed around. finally make sure that the little plug on your hdd is across the Master or cable select pins not the slave as this can cause probs too. good luck.