First let me say that I am not very computer smart so if it seems like I am explaining obvious stuff please excuse me.
I have a 3 yr old Dell Dimension 1100 desktop and it has been giving me problems lately. To many kids on it downloading stuff and I think it even has a virus or two. Anyway I was reading online where you can do a system restore by doing ctrl+F11 on a Dell if it wasnt very old.
So I was going to try that and the instructions are when you see the Dell splash screen hit ctrl+F11 well only problem with that is for some reason my splash screen doesnt show up. I dont know why as I have never disabled it. So I thought I could try and guess about when the splash screen would come up. I tried it a few times with no luck.
Then this is where I think I screwed up, I held down the ctrl button and about every second I hit F11 after a few times it beeped so I stopped. So then the operating system wouldnt continue loading, like the monitor just blank with the power button being orange.
So I rebooted and still no luck. The lights are on on the front of my cpu as well as the back and the fan is running. When I press a button on the monitor it says it is in power saver mode. I have Windows XP Home if that helps at all.
Sorry for the long detailed explaination I just wanted to make sure I told everything that i did. Any help anybody can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I forgot to mention I did try the monitor on my laptop and it worked fine
