monitor goes to sleep when opening comp; windows xp

[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.

i tried rebooting the comp, pulling out the power again and wait 2 mins
after the power is out.. none of it worked...

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..

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

 

[Guest]

why isn't anyone helping me

 

[microluck]

Try to format you C: and reinstall your windows, it seems that your
system files was destroyed.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

What happens when you try the various safe mode options?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Malke]

why isn't anyone helping me

<sigh> Because this is Usenet and people who help are *volunteers*.
Amazingly, some of us have Real Lives and things to do on Saturday.

There is no way for us to know what you did to your computer. It sounds
like you either fried something, have failing hardware, or have Windows
file corruption. The best way to find out for sure will be for you to
take the machine to a professional computer repair shop.

I'm not saying this to hurt your feelings, but I don't believe you're
going to be able to diagnose and fix this yourself. If you really feel
you want to try:

1. Retrieve any data by using a rescue system like Knoppix, a Bart's PE,
or ERD Commander (very expensive).

2. Run some hardware diagnostics to make sure components are healthy. If
anything fails hardware tests, replace it.

3. If the hardware is healthy, clean install Windows, install drivers
and programs from installation media, restore data from backups.

Malke