if its giving you a CPU error, take out the CPU card if its a card and use a pink eraser on the gold contacts. if its just a CPU slot, wiggle it. If its beeping reseat the RAM. its a hardware issue if it isnt passing control to the OS. just make sure everything is seated properly. If it IS going to OS, its a driver issue, most likely, but since you cant boot into Safe, sounds like hardware. try taking out the sound card, and booting, then the vid card and booting. sometimes good pieces go bad.

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Originally posted by Orbax if its giving you a CPU error, take out the CPU card if its a card and use a pink eraser on the gold contacts. if its just a CPU slot, wiggle it. If its beeping reseat the RAM. its a hardware issue if it isnt passing control to the OS. just make sure everything is seated properly. If it IS going to OS, its a driver issue, most likely, but since you cant boot into Safe, sounds like hardware. try taking out the sound card, and booting, then the vid card and booting. sometimes good pieces go bad.

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i guess u can try what orbax said

I remember this happened to me once.... i was trying to flash my BIOS... and something went wrong... when i went to boot again... everything is spinning and working.... but no display.
i ended up buying a new mobo after a couple months...

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Does your monitor have an amber and green lite for standby and on?

Is the Video Card Seated Correctly?

If theres no beeps or anything and you just turn it on

Your CPU is frazzled or your video is fux0r'd

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woot same thing happened to my laptop 2 weeks ago! after i shut it off, cuz it kept on freezing, i turned it back on and all i saw was the sony logo had to fckin reboot. lost all my tunes in the C:\ drive. hopefully it didnt do no harm with the d drive where i keeep all my files. but still it was a bitch

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Originally posted by Clyde77 lost all my tunes in the C:\ drive.

c:\del *.mp3

i doubt it would be anything to do with the microsoft patch, as much as we hate them, they do have extensive testing procedures in place for their patches etc.

can you tell us what motherboard, cpu, video card and psu you have?

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Originally posted by BryZe Just nothing on the display. The last thing I remembered was that Microsoft had just sent out an update the night before. Dont think this is the problem but who knows. HELP PLEASE

Microsoft DO NOT send out updates. U got virused.

cha ching bitch

Alright everyone....these are my comp specs
motherboard - ABIT KX-333 (nothing onboard)
cpu - AMD Athlon XP 2000
videocard - GeForce4 4200 128MB
soundcard - dolby digital 5.1 and creative labs (simple soundcard)
ram - 512MB DDR
OS - XP Pro.

I am also behind a router with a second computer and the second computer connected to the router does not have any problems. Also, if I remember correctly...the second computer received the same updates with no trouble.

I dont know what you mean DJ-Fuq but I have been sent updates many times before. Also, after I installed the updates everything was running fine.

I have checked all of the cards and connections...and all are good.
Not sure how to reset the RAM but keep in mind that I can not get passed or into Safe Mode.

Hope this helps someone so they can help me. I guess I should also mention that my hardware background/knowledge is limited so I will need a little dumbing up of this info.
Appreciate the help!!!!!

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Originally posted by DJ-Fuq Microsoft DO NOT send out updates. U got virused.

Take it you hav'nt heard of automatic updates in Windows XP then


BryZe, how old is the PC, and is there evidence of dust in the heatsink (the bit chunk of metal with a fan attached), also does the fan on the heatsink spin?

Also if you have the manual checkout how to reset the cmos, that may help to.

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