Need help from computer people
 

Last night I shut my computer down as a precaution cause of the bad storms, this morning when I went to turn it back on it will not boot up. I get to the screen for windows XP where the green bar shows its loading, then the screen goes blank to take u over to the blue welcome screen, but the welcome screen never comes. The computer worked PERFECTLY fine before I shut it down, iidk what the problem would be. BIOS is recognizing both disk drives and hard drives and the system messages tell me both hard drives are ok, so I'm really at a loss here. I shut down properly and before the lightning started. Any suggestions?

Is it hooked up to a good surge protector? You may have gotten a surge, and even if it was turned off, it still got hit.

No its not but I have a few other electronic devices I have hooked to the same power supply as my computer and was using them during the storm and I noticed no difference in function in them. If the computer got a surge and damaged a hard drive wouldn't that information be reflected in either the BIOS or system messages? Cause both of those read normal, :( I'm confused.

The power supply or motherboard would be the first thing damaged if there was a power surge. It's always possible that you did get a surge.

Do you have the Windows XP installation disk? If so, try to run the XP setup again, it will allow you to install a fresh copy of XP right overtop of itself, not losing any settings or anything else.

If nothing was physically damaged, then you could have just had a file corrupt.

- Justin

um..my beater comp doesnt wanna turn on at all. some black screen comes up and thats all. however my laptop works fine and it was on all night...ehh **** it.

surge protector FTW 8)