Pc just got very ill ... any ideas?

E

errigal

Hi
Running Windows XP Home.(dell)
PC about 4 yrs old. It just got very ill last night.

Mon night, my 1 yr free subscription to EzArmor firewall and viru
scanner expired.
I enabled the windows xp firewall and then proceeded to download AVG
which
installed fine, ran a full virus check, all ok.

Tue night, downloaded Kerio firewall. Installed ok, said needed t
reboot to complete install.
Some apps didnt shut down very gracefully, anyway didnt shutdow
completely (just blackscreened)
so did a hard reset and on restart, after the dell.com splashscreen i
just goes to a blackscreen indefinitely.

I can break out and attempt to start in Last known good mode or saf
mode, but in either case when
it goes to the 2nd page, to ask which OS you want to start (just XP i
my case) hitting enter to start has
no effect, nor does pressing any other key. That screen just remains
Have to hard reset each time to shutdown/restart.

Any ideas what I should try next ?

Thks in advance
 
B

Black Baptist

errigal rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

Try F8 and goto safe mode on startup
 

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