monitor goes to sleep after starting.. windows xp home

[Guest]

i've just had a network problem with my router (not from a virus, i manually
unplugged the wire to disconnect on purpose). so i decided to restart my
computer.. after clicking on restart, my computer frozed, so i shut the power
down by pulling out the power plug. then after starting the computer. i see
the HP logo and on the bottom it says f1 for set f10 for system recovery,

after that i see the safe mode screen, the options are safe mode, safe mode
with networking, safe mode with command prompt, start windows from the last
known working state, start windows xp normally.

no matter which one of those options i choose, the results are the same and
it continues to load windows, shows the windows logo with the blue dots going
by, then it says monitor going to sleep..
i tried rebooting the comp, pulling out the power again and wait 2 mins
after the power is out.. none of it worked...

when i put in my xp cd and hit repair, it asks me to choose choice 1 for
c:/i386 or c:/miniNT, no matter which one i choosed, the results are the same
and it asks me to type something in next (it says "c:/i385>" or
"c:/miniNT>".. and i dont know what to type...

i called up hp and they told me that i got my windows xp from microsoft and
not from them, because i installed windows xp from a cd i purchased.. tried
contacting microsoft but they only work on business days

if its not possible to solve this problem, does anyone know how to install 2
copies of windows xp on the same computer... so i can at least save my files

 

[peter]

You entered the wrong repair mode.
try it again but this time go past that one and into the install.At which
point XP will ask if you wish to do a new installation
or a Repair Installation....which is the one you want.
Remember that you will need to add all of the updates again.
peter