Hi, My computer shut itself down, but not i can't start it back up again. I gets past the windows loading screen, but then it goes blank. Please help, i have lots of important info on there and know i should have backed up, but haven't done it for ages!! Cheers Angie

Safest way is to > Slave it to another HD/comp ( no need to bolt it in, just cable it & leave it outside the case ) & copy your stuff onto the other HD or other media. You may have a choice of jumper settings on the master HD, such as master with slave or ms. ====================================== Once you have saved your stuff, try a repair. Boot off of a clean Windows XP cd ( your bios has to be set to boot from cd rom 1st ) choose Install ( Not > To Repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R ) at the first prompt. It will then search for a previous copy of Windows. When it finds your copy, it will stop at the next prompt and ask if you want to do a repair. Hit R at this screen. If it does'nt mention a repair > DO NOT continue. It will then copy a lot of files and appear to be doing a reinstall ( But its not. All your programs and data are safe, all you will lose, are your Windows updates )

check hardware, check cables and wire connections, try restart in safe mode (f8), if able to logon, anilize with defrag, run scandisk ~error checker, runn virus and spyware scanners, ...

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