Please forgive me for being a bit vague presently. I'm at the office and my computer is at the house. What (supposedly) happened was my new roommate was unaware that I had my computer connected to a wall switch. He told me he went to bed and turned it off...did not tell me how many times he did this before going to bed but seemed that it was more than once and quite suddenly. My problem that I am facing now is that it will not Load. Not normal, not in any safe mode, nor anything at present. I was able to bring up the command prompt (I believe) and was able to see that my files are still intact (thank you Dad for drilling dos into my head) I just for the life of me can not figure out what the problem is... Basically I turn it on and it begins to load and just when you'd think it was about to start...nothing but a black screen. The last working load results in the same as well. Attempting the other safe mode will cycle through the drivers that it finished working on...but stops always at antispyware. After careful review and research I decided that before I start doing anything drastic and well...dumb I thought I'd post here. A few thing I did do before leaving my computer that night was: 1. Link up my 360 and media center again and had it search for all my media files. 2. Changed the visualization to max for the new tv. (both within my nvida and windows personilation) 3. Might've had limewire running on a torrent but i'd have to ask him. Over all everything was fine till then. IF it makes any difference I did remove the antispyware program about 2 weeks ago when it was trying to detect half my hard drive as spyware. (stupid wildtangent and their game Fate) Still didn't have problems within the course of the two weeks. Any suggestions will be wonderful and within an hour I should be back at the residence and can respond with better info as to the situation. Sometimes we all goof

All that means nothing if you throw the switch. First is to recover the files. I use live linux cd's to transport data over either network or usb drives. The Vista DVD can be used as a live cd if you know how. It can save off your files. Second is to repair the install. Consider a "repair" by using the repair feature of the dvd. If your system only has a recover or restore disk then be sure you have all your data off and tested good. Worse comes to worse a clean install. With wars over energy you should consider turning off your computer and all wall warts on a power strip when the computer is not in use. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

Slowly getting somewhere... I haven't attempted the above steps and funny thing I just bumped into someone who recommended the same thing with linux as well. Might attempt that soon. But as a recent development I attempted to log on to windows domain masters and got a message saying: Checking file system on D: The volume is clean Cannot determine file system of drive \??\volume{72e249a5-659a-11dc-b946-001731ba2f94}. Cannot determine file system of drive \??\volume{72e24991-659a-11dc-b946-001731ba2f94}. Cannot determine file system of drive \??\volume{72e24997-659a-11dc-b946-001731ba2f94}. I'm also doing a chkdsk c: /r and its presently at 75% *UPDATE* Not really sure what the devil caused this problem but it seems that it is running without any problems...odd Sometimes we all goof

... worth a try: ... as pc boots-up tapping F8 key ...select "safe mode command prompt" [ENTER] ... type: bcdedit /enum [press ENTER] ... Post the contents here ... ya Grrrr wat do I know? ... got brain freeze