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6.6

Black screen on boot, no beeps..

Asked by Lottoplus in Computer Motherboards, PC Laptops, Personal Computers

Tags: Windows

Hi all,

Am trying to clean up a terrible infected PC.. it has that troublesome RPC Blaster Explot (http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/rpc.php) but the machine is in absolute sh*te.

By this, I mean the owners installled 2 versions of the OS (folder 'Windows') and (folder 'Windows1') and have required data in both versions of the OS.

One version of the OS boots, though that RPC error comes up (which I can prevent shutting down by running 'shutdown -a') but installing anything USB devices or anything results in it basically locking up, so backing up to a USB disk is outta the question. Safe mode is also more or less a no go.

The other version of the OS boots into XP, but that's as far as it goes. No desktop icons (etc) - I try to launch 'explorer.exe' and nothing happens.

So tried to boot up earlier on and got a 'Read disk error. Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart' but fixed that after simply restarting a few times. But now, I'm getting a black screen.. no beeps.. no indication or anything. Can view the bios and that's about it. Tried removing the CMOS battery for a while but it's the same. Any suggestions?

Oh.. and tried re-seating the RAM. Nothing!

Obviously the disk is on it's way out but the black screen is odd. Anyone any thoughts?
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