Can you start in safe mode?
Do you see a post screen at start up?
Have you been fooling around in bios?
i dont know what a post screen is.....safe mode does the same thingCan we please wrap all your problems to one post robert...... like my pc (a the old ibm has a PROBLEM) or (B) my old dell/hp......self build has this problem.....so i dont END up a skeleton sitting in a chair trying to help you......get the drift......as you have posts dotted all over the place.....When you first PUSH the computer button do you ever see anything on the screen at all?
White text on a black background?SOLUTION:

Take your hard drive put it into another pc with XP on it scan it for bad sectors; should fix the bad sectors on your drive. Go BACK and put your disk on your computer and walla... Quote

SOLUTION:

Take your hard drive put it into another pc with XP on it scan it for bad sectors; should fix the bad sectors on your drive. Go back and put your disk on your computer and walla...