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Alright, glad to hear you're able to see the monitor. Now try booting from the repair disc, and running a startup repair.
Also run the command I recommended, and the system restore.
Alright, glad to hear you're able to see the monitor. Now try booting from the repair disc, and running a startup repair.
Also run the command I recommended, and the system restore.
Have you followed Jonathan's suggestions with hardware? Because what you are discribing seems either hardware or an OS corruption. If it was a virus, then an OS corruption is possible.
An OS reinstall or recovery may be the best solution here, assuming it is not hardware.
However, you can try making/using a bootable antivirus rescue disc. This only works if your bios is set to boot from cd/dvd drive before the hard drive.
What antivirus were you using? I've downloaded suspicious files before, but my antivirus protected me enough that I was able to fix the damage. I would suggest that once you've either cleaned the computer or reinstalled the OS, then you use an antivirus such as Microsoft Security Essentials.
Press F2 to enter the BIOS setup program, and change the CD drive to be the first to boot. Or, press F11/F12 to access the popup boot menu, and then select the CD drive.
asking me to enter safe mode with networking or prompt
That means the CD didn't boot. Did you set the CD to be the first to boot, or manually select the CD drive?
its telling me to insert my windows instalation cd which I don't have
ok i'm in system recovery options startup repair, system restore, system image recovery and so on
Try a startup repair first; if not, run the command from the command prompt, system restore, etc, as recommended in previous posts.