C
Colette
i have an hp pavilion 8756, which had ME on it. i had to
reinstall ME after reformatting drive, then installed XP
home upgrade on it using xp's clean install option.
everything worked great for a while. then i went to
windows update for the second round of installs, and it
was going fine, then suddenly my monitor fries.
no power, won't work on a laptop.
went and got another monitor. it plugs in, computer
rebooted, and i get the startup screen on the monitor,
then after the windows xp startup screen, it goes into
powersave.
the monitor works fine on my laptop. AND i can get it to
work when i boot the machine from the xp install disc,
which puts it into xp setup/install repair mode.
so it's something with xp home and this machine.
any ideas? i don't want to re-install XP for the fourth
time.
thanks in advance!!!
reinstall ME after reformatting drive, then installed XP
home upgrade on it using xp's clean install option.
everything worked great for a while. then i went to
windows update for the second round of installs, and it
was going fine, then suddenly my monitor fries.
no power, won't work on a laptop.
went and got another monitor. it plugs in, computer
rebooted, and i get the startup screen on the monitor,
then after the windows xp startup screen, it goes into
powersave.
the monitor works fine on my laptop. AND i can get it to
work when i boot the machine from the xp install disc,
which puts it into xp setup/install repair mode.
so it's something with xp home and this machine.
any ideas? i don't want to re-install XP for the fourth
time.
thanks in advance!!!