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My computer won't boot - right before the part were it supposed to show the Windows logo it goes to a blank screen.
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It sounds as if it's not "finding" the hard disk,
or, the boot files on the hard disk.
Is the hard disk listed correctly in the POST screen? (POST - Power On Self Test)
Can you boot the machine with a bootable CD (ie; XP CD if you have one)?
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This started happening after I turned off my computer a few days ago.
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There's a possibility that the CMOS battery may have died, and lost the hard disk parameters. However, if the hard disk was set up with default parameters (what the machine found/recognized and not a "hard entered" parameters setup) the machine will usually find the disk once power is applied.
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