10-06-2009, 05:16 AM
Have you tried a system restore Steve? Put in the OS disk, and run a restore to the last saved date.The problem sounds like it should be hardware, but if you're getting to the load screen and can get Bios to come up it might not be. My laptop crapped out on me over the weekend, was a really weird presentation too. I talked to a buddy who's also a computer guy, and after running through a bunch of stuff the system restore was finally the answer, I didn't even lose any files.