I have another causality....
My Compaq DC5000MT Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB RAM running WIN XP pro picked up some sort of virus a couple of weeks ago. Thought I could just go back to a good setting from a couple of months ago....it worked (albeit much slower) for a few days. Came into my office this morning and the Hard Drive was just spinning away....tried to click on the screen....nothing so I just shut the power down.
When I tried to power back....nothing...just a black screen....shut it down and tried to start up in Safe Mode, goes through about 3 lines of what can best be described as DOS code....then freezes up again.
The computer is not so important to me as the data on my HD (No, of course I didn't back it up ).
Any help would be very much appreciated.