Im on my lap top right now, because my PC is totally inop.
Ill start at the beginning.
So like most computers, after its been sitting for a while, a computer will go into a sleep mode, and with the touch of the mouse, or keyboard, it will pop back on, well about a week ago, it didnt come back on for me.
So i restarted it, and then it said, "The computer did not shut down properly, would you like to run it in A. Safe Mode, B. Last known good config, or C. Normal Start up." Didnt think anything of it, so i did normal start up, but instead of starting up, right after that, the screen would go black, and it would stay that way.
So i got my XP disk to "Repair" windows, and i was having trouble getting into the BIOS. I switched some wires around and finally got into the BIOS, and ran windows set up.
And this is where i am at right now. During the windows set-up, everything works just fine, until it says, "Setup Starting Windows", Then it freezes.
Could it be my hard drive bad, or another peice of hardware? Cuz i wouldnt imagine a virus could even mess up windows boot disk, could it?
Please help. Thank you.
-Lucas
Ill start at the beginning.
So like most computers, after its been sitting for a while, a computer will go into a sleep mode, and with the touch of the mouse, or keyboard, it will pop back on, well about a week ago, it didnt come back on for me.
So i restarted it, and then it said, "The computer did not shut down properly, would you like to run it in A. Safe Mode, B. Last known good config, or C. Normal Start up." Didnt think anything of it, so i did normal start up, but instead of starting up, right after that, the screen would go black, and it would stay that way.
So i got my XP disk to "Repair" windows, and i was having trouble getting into the BIOS. I switched some wires around and finally got into the BIOS, and ran windows set up.
And this is where i am at right now. During the windows set-up, everything works just fine, until it says, "Setup Starting Windows", Then it freezes.
Could it be my hard drive bad, or another peice of hardware? Cuz i wouldnt imagine a virus could even mess up windows boot disk, could it?
Please help. Thank you.
-Lucas