booting up

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I play music on computer everynight when I sleep, nothing
happen before but today it frozed in the morning, so I
shut the power off. Now when I try to boot it up again,
it seem to work but there is nothing on the monitor that
is displaying. At first, I thought that my monitor is
not working but that was not it. I checked the CPU and
to see if the pin on it has burned into the motherboard
like in the past but it was fine. I actually replaced a
brand new motherboard and upgraded to a faster CPU. Is
it possible that my video card is not working? What
could be possible solutions to this problem? Does it
have anything to do with the hard drive or memory? I try
a couple of time turn on the computer...and everytime the
computer is running but nothing is displaying on the
monitor.
 
NEVER simply turn off the computer unless you've tried everything you can
think of to get it to reboot. The problem is likely that you cut power to a
running system. Frozen or not, that can be death to a hard drive and/or
other components. If this happens, try hitting ctrl-alt-delete and try
shutting down from the task manager it brings up, the boot the system or try
rebooting from the task manager.

Don't know what's wrong but if you can run a repair install as follows, the
might get things working. If you still can't see anything, not even to be
able to perform this procedure, your next step is to have a shop look at it.
If you have a spare graphics card around, you might try swapping it with
your current card to see if that at least allows you to view things again.
If not, the shop is your answer:
Assuming you have an actual XP CD as opposed to a recovery CD, try a Repair
install as follows:
NOTE, while a repair install should leave your data files intact, if
something goes wrong during the repair install, you may be forced to start
over and do a clean install of XP. If you don't have your data backed up,
you would lose your data should that eventuality occur.

Boot from the CD. If your system is set to be able to boot from the CD, it
should detect the disk and give a brief message, during the boot up, if you
wish to boot from the CD press any key.

Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. You will see a reference
asking if you need to load special drivers and another notice that if you
wish to begin the ASR (Automatic Recovery Console) depress F2. Just let
setup run past all of that. It will continue to load files and drivers.

Then it will bring you to a screen. Eventually, you will come to a screen
with the option to (1) setup Windows or (2) Repair Windows Installation
using the Recovery console.

The first option, to setup Windows is the one you want and requires you to
press enter. When asked, press F8 to accept the end user agreement. Setup
will then search for previous versions of Windows. Upon finding your
version, it will ask if you wish to Repair your current installation or
install fresh. Press R, that will run a repair installation. From there
on, follow the screens.

If you only have a recovery CD, your options are quite limited. You can
either purchase a retail version of XP will allow you to perform the above
among other tools and options it has or you can run your system recovery
routine with the Recovery CD which will likely wipe your drive, deleting all
files but will restore your setup to factory fresh condition.
 
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