We had a storm lastnight. My mom calls and said her computer wont work. I stopped up and it has the screen up that says your compter had shut down do to a power outage blah blah blah (you know) then it gave you the choices of start in safe mode, start at last good configuration, or start normally and then it has a timer and said windows will start in ** seconds. Well if would hit enter or let the time run down and it would go as if it was going to start and just went back to that screen. So I took the tower and brought it home. The tower will power up but the monitor will not turn on and the lights on the keboard only flash once. So this am I went and got her monitor, mouse and keyboard and same thing. Does anyone know whats up with this?
2007-06-02 02:47:47 · 4 answers · asked by bella 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It looks like Windows has been damaged. If you are using Win XP, try repairing it using the instructions in the link:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
2007-06-02 02:56:55 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Same thing happened to me. It turned out there was a Power Surge. It fried the hard drive. I had to get a new one and re-install Windows.
2007-06-02 10:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rammstein1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's an XP based system then download this file and copy it to disc/cd and reset the BIOS to boot from that source and see if can boot that way - it may have a corrupted boot.ini file. which this fix will replace.
http://rapidshare.com/files/34795014/xp_boot_discs.zip
good luck
Gray
2007-06-02 09:53:27 · answer #3 · answered by grahamohanlon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call 911 and report the PC to them. It will probably be out with mis-demeanor charges.
2007-06-02 15:56:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋