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Originally Posted by Tom
No beeps, just the Intel screen, then a blank screen.
F2 nor F8 do anything to get to safe mode.
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I had something similar on my XP machine. If you're able to get to the safe mode there's a diagnostic option. I actually used it several times. The first few times it stopped or failed to finish but eventually ran and completed. But, there were beeping noises which I didn't know what they meant.
I don't know what happened but it hung up when it got to the keyboard section. I purchased a wireless keyboard from Target and it's working just fine. Uncertain if that was the actual solution to my problem but like I said it still works after over a year. Accessing hard drive and saving files etc.
I've had several other problems like that with my XP and I think the diagnostic program actually fixes it (but, I don't know how it does it).