...really appreciated. Its an HP ? I'm using a dell monitor. I turn on my cpu and it starts to boot and automatically goes black! No cursor or anything! I was told to press f8 to go into "safe mode" but it goes blk again b4 I can do that. Than it to the windows screen n blk again! I also found out that I was using a counterfeit version of windows xp. I'm pretty broke so and need the info stored for school. Thanks a lot!