hi everyone just a quick question i had a virus which had looped my login on xp and microsoft sugested to reformat the hard drive and reinstall xp, i inserted the xp cd and yes did a fresh installation, but heres the question when i now turn on my pc it beeps once but nothing and i dont even get the msi screen logo to go into the bios and dosnt even read the xp cd now any ideas many thanks juan ( see xp activation )software forum