hey ... can anyone help a dumb blonde?.. btw thats a joke ..
my boyfriend and i both have ibm netvistas.. recently i started having a problem with mine .... the bedreaded ..... xp wont load and monitor goes into sleep mode......
i would unplug it from the wall for a few then it would maybe work.... the other day i had it so i did a system restore .. BACK a couple months .. now it seems to be ok ... and then it happened...... yesterday my boyfriends pc ..... was on all day it was hot as *censored* in the house ... i touched the mouse and the pc was on but it froze up immediately.... so we rebooted it then it came on and would freeze at the desktop... and the monitor kept blinking to black screen.. so we rebooted it i went into safe mode .. did a system restore ....... and didnt change anything actually well made it worse cause now we just have a blue screen .... LOL... so i told Him its burning up unplug it ... now it wont come back we get NO SIGNAL ....and when i boot it up only the top light comes on and the bottom light ... does something for like one sec then no activity..... i dont know where to begin .. any ideas and please dont beat me up im trying my best to figure out what the problem is and where to startwas it my name the reason no one responded i thought for sure someone would have a CLUE for what i should do ... i cant believe there was not EVEN one RESPONSE!A couple of things that I could suggest. Can you OPEN the case to see if it's dirty. If it is, use compressed air to clean it. Ensure everything is connected and all cards are properly set in their slots. Do you get a beep when it starts? Can you determine if anything is happening such as fans running, HDD spinning? Was there anything done to the computer before this happened? Any new programs dl'd and installed or anything removed?Also...
- desktop, or laptop?
- will it boot OK to Safe Mode?
- did you check computer temperatures?