[invisigoth]

I have two XP computers with the same problem. These computers are at seperate locations. They both have a black screen at start up. It flashes the Explorer logo and the curser blinks and then nothing. I have tried safe mode, rebooting to the installation disk and the ubuntu boot cd. You can see things flash onscreen but it goes away before you can even click on anything. I have read that there is many computers with this problem and they think it occured after the most recent windows update in October. All the solutions posted would be great if I could actually type something or click on something, but there is nothing on screen to work with.Task manger doesn't work or F10, F8, F11 or any other F key. You can hear the computer trying to boot and the ubuntu program seems to load, but it only flashes on the screen and then I am back to the black screen of death!


One computer is an e-machine w6409 the other is a gateway. Both are at least 5 years old.