well my computer hasnt worked since sunday (3 days ago).
i press the power button and it acts like its going to start, but windows xp never comes up, and my screen stays black.
does anyone have any ideas? i dont really know what to do... and i cant get my new one for about a month or 2.

check for audio, maybe your monitor is broken...

its not my monitor because a screen pops up right before windows starts up, just like always. but its like windows isnt starting or something...

wipe the hard drive and start over (always works)

egh, look:

1) open up your PC, see if there this anything loose or shorting out or on fire. On fire is bad.
2) try a system restore, should be like F11 or F12 at startup.
3) if none of that works re-install windows.

also a pic of what's happening would also be nice.

Does reinstalling windows erase everything? I have a lot of stuff I would rather not lose because it will take a while to get it all back.

new windows move your old windows into a map called Windows.old so you can always get the stuff back from there. not sure it always does that... but just make backups!

Okay if none of this works, ill call someone out to come look at it next week or so.

I assume you have no other computer or hard drives sitting around?

that's only windows 7

nope.
alrdy tried to use your windowscd?

If nothing is working

BIOs -->> clean your HD -->> install Windows again -->> Stop clicking on Junkmails and Spyware.


Or maybe it's just the mainboard ? i heard some of the cheaper ASRock stuff got problems with the Booting...

But doing a system restore or reinstalling windows loses all my documents and crap?

just back up the important stuff or an external hd or somthing

How do I save it to an external hardrive if my computer won't even start?