now it just makes some noise, like fairly long beeps...
the lights on the cd-rom come on, but the pc doesn't do anything at all in terms of actually starting up...
nothing appears on the screen at all now...
as far as the instructoins go, i got it to read from the cd once and got into the repair console, which i was supposed to use f10 to access the gui for the two accounts i have on the pc...
the instructions said to press f10 when setup starts displaying the device listing, and to type nusrmgr.cpl at the command prompt...
i did that like they said, but all i got was the command prompt again...
then when i tried rebooting with the xp cd, nothing happened except a few relatively long beeps from the p.c. but nothing at all appears onscreen, no memory test, no access to the setup in cmos...
well, i should say i can't get anything to work at this point...
it won't boot from the cd disk again, it just makes a few beeps but nothing is appearing onscreen and the pc doesn't even sound like the pc is trying to boot from the cd, but nothing happens...
it doesn't even go to the login screen, hell it doesn't go anywhere but a blank (dark) screen...
this is the site with the directions i tried to follow
instructions
since the problem began, trying to start in safe mode (pressing f8) has not worked (nothing happened it just continued to boot to the login screen, which it doesn't do anymore...)