I was LANing at a friends yesterday, and he accidentally hit the power switch to my power strip. It shut everything off. I tried to restart my computer, it gave me a conformation beep and started to run. But my monitor was still in standby mode, and not responding with my computer. I tried again, and again, and it eventually just worked. I dont know what i did, but it worked.

So i got home today and tried to start my comp up, but this time instead of the monitor not working, the computer auto restarts after the BIO screen (the screen which you push delete for BIOs to start) and gives me a blank screen. My monitor on, and not in standby either. its just black... I'm really not sure what is GOING on, i suspect the processor since my motherboard is still beeping and my video card is still letting me see the start up screens.

someone please help me! I need to get back to WoW!I just restarted and it gave me 3 conformation beeps, went to the load up, then to checking master and slave devices. and then it brought me to the screen to start WINDOWS normally/ safe mode screen. I selected last known configuration. and it froze!Try starting in safe mode. While it is booting, hit F8. Then maybe you can do a SYSTEM restore. Don't know what that will do, but it is worth a try.Well, i tried that, it froze when i selected Safe Mode.Maybe a REPAIR of windows with the windows disk? I would wait until someone with more expertise replies and confirms this though.Since this machine is traveling around to LAN parties i would remove alll power sources take off a side panel and re-seat the vid card; RAM etc.

The PSU can SOMETIMES be resetif you toggle the switch on the back of the PSU a few times with it unplugged. This is only on better PSU's. Usually not the cheaper models.

Plug it back in and see if this helps.im just chiming in to say...

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I need to get back to WoW!