HELP PLEASE!!

I am trying to figure out what is WRONG with a friends computer. The computer, which was purchased on HSN and says "Systemax Ascent" and runs windows ME, was running properly about 2 weeks ago and when he attempted to boot up again, it had no picture on the monitor, just a blank screen with the green power light blinking. I thought maybe it was the monitor so I brought it to my house and tried it on my monitor which works but it did the same thing. I also noticed that his CD Rom drive doesn't work either which he says was also working before. I took the CD drive out of mine and put it in his and it works FINE. Does someone know what could have caused these 2 problems and what I can do to get them both working? THANK you so much for any help you can give me.

Tina


Does your friend have virus PROTECTION?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Hi, I don't think he did. He had AOL he said which OFFERS a firewall but no known virus protection. Please advise!!Probably picked up a virus... Hard to say though... It probably killed his hard disk...

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