Help! :(

[Osiris]

as you are rebooting press F8, if this dont work, do you have your windows cd?

 

[Brtnboarder495]

Yes. Is it possible to clean it off completely and reinstall it? Because I have the CD and the product key, and as far as I'm concerned I can't do anything in the current state of the computer.

 

[Osiris]

do a windows repair

 

[Brtnboarder495]

How?

 

[Osiris]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Brtnboarder495]

Okay, I can't even get into the BIOS or Windows screen ... period.

 

[Brtnboarder495]

This is ********, I disconnected the HD during launch so that I'd be taken to the XP "setup" screen, and then replugged it in. I pressed "R" for system repair and then "1" to select the Windows Installation that I wanted to be repaired (the ONLY Windows Installation). Then it just froze. What gives?

 

[Osiris]

you might as well do a format, seems to me that your system is hosed....

 

[EricB]

I'm just hoping he didn't short the cmos jumper when he turn the computer on earlier.

 

[KSoD]

Okay, I can't even get into the BIOS or Windows screen ... period.

This comment scares me. Does your system even do a POST. (Power On Self Test) Do you hear any beeps when you system just starts after being shut off? If not then you might have fried your mobo or CMOS.