Black Screen System Crash (ohmygosh!)

[shamrock838]

BLACK SCREEN SYSTEM CRASH (ohmygosh!):

Greetings,

My system just crashed on me and I’m unable to reboot. My OS is 2000 Pro and I have Office 2000 Pro.

While I was burning a CD, I foolishly tried to access some high-end .JPG photo files (1-2MB each). Well, my monitor screen went black and the computer seemed to die. Repeated attempts to reboot proved futile. When powering up I got the Gateway logo screen and the bootup progress bar only got half-way across before stopping.

I have no idea what damage has been done to my system. BTW, I have a circa 1998 Gateway 450MB Pentium II with 512 RAM. I have two separate resident hard drives:
Master – Drives C and D (about 30 GB overall)
Slave – Drives E and F (about 80 GB overall)
[ Fortunately, my son has a spare bare-bones computer, which I’m using now. ]

What I need to know is: (a) how to determine the extent of damage to my system; and (b) how to recover my computer to pre-crash status.

Any assistance … direct and referral … that anyone can render will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Mike Mooney

 

[4W4K3]

Mike Mooney

you wouldn't by chance have a brother or someone that goes to Coppell High School...would you? or maybe yourself? i know a person named Michael Mooney. crazy.

 

[ZER0X]

Going into safemode is a good way to fix up problems that occured

 

[lante]

Going into safemode is a good way to fix up problems that occured

Going into safemode is a good idea and check if ur drivers is normal.

 

[ZER0X]

You know you could of Killed your computer....Stuffed the RAM burnt out the Processor

OMG

 

[Praetor]

You know you could of Killed your computer....Stuffed the RAM burnt out the Processor

Possible yes... but opening a JPG???

Does safemode work?

 

[ZER0X]

Well it was a big .jpg file

 

[Praetor]

EVen loading up a 50MB JPG file -- which i've tried, wont burn out ur proc