Help offered can only be as good as information provided by the person with a problem. Your HP Pavilion has a model number beside it I believe. Is it a laptop or desktop? Also are you using a CRT or LCD screen if it is a desktop? Do you have the opportunity to use another monitor to help identify it as the cause or eliminate it?

this is why I like everyone to have a linux live cd handy, you can stick it in the cd drawer and boot the pc which will have it boot to linux cd rather than windows and work can be done on the windows area like run a virus scan from the linux cd. You can download and burn a linux live cd free from many locations online, also most linux magizines in book stores have free live cd in the mag. Ubuntu is the most common version. These are some examples of using a linux live cd Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer Trinity Rescue Kit This is a great series on how to create and use rescue cd's Bootcamp 403: PC rescue pt 1 Bootcamp 404: PC rescue pt 2 Bootcamp 405: PC rescue pt 3 Part 3 includes the directions for Bart Pe. Should you choose to use any of those methods let us know how it went for you. One question were you able to get to any of the options such as last known best or any of the safe mode options at all?

Wow, here I am almost 8 months later and there is very little progress toward our bathroom! No word at all from Jim, the contractor. I wonder if he is still doing the commercial job or if he even wants our work. Plus, Toby, our dog, is even older now - 16 - and on prednisone, so he is peeing a lot. He has doggy dementia, too. He is not terribly confused, not enough to put him down, but there is no way I want new, clean grout on that floor. The bathroom is on hold until he decides to take a trip over the rainbow bridge. I have just contracted to replace the last four windows in the house. The aluminum sliders will be gone in 6 weeks or less! We are getting an awning window for the bathroom with a blind in the glass that can be raised and lowered. It is our sunniest room, and light from that window lights up the whole end of the hallway. I wanted the option to raise the blinds up. The three bedrooms are getting double casement windows with blinds in the glass. Hey - I don't clean, so the blinds are a major, major plus for us! Now I have to get windowsills for all three bedrooms. And for the bathroom, the need for a windowsill is forcing me to decide on the counter top for the vanity. It seems to me that they should be the same material. Tomorrow I am going to try to find the Cambria Quartz source for the area. I want the place where I can get a leftover piece of someone else's slab, since I need such a small piece. My vanity is only 18" x 46". I am hoping for the color called Parys. [houzz=https://www.houzz.com/photos/cambria-countertop-2010-traditional-kitchen-phvw-vp~2704735] Since I still have not chosen the color for the wall tiles in the bathroom, the color for the vanity top is going to determine what direction we go, since it is the next critical decision that I have to make. I like Parys because it is dark and will contrast with the white sink. It will also contrast with all the different wall tiles I have considered. I especially love the glowing blue bits in it. It reminds me of my favorite stone I use when making jewelry, Labradorite! It has that chatoyancy, that glow when it catches the light just right. Opal also does that. Parys just glows in any light. Other things I have made progress on have to do with the vanity. I have sanded it and have decided to replace the original drawer pulls. No way will we enjoy finding the little bail that recedes into a groove on those babies. I am going to fill the holes and then drill one center hole and use a glass knob with chrome in the center. I had already purchased three of them to use on the new cupboards that I was adding into the wall across from the vanity. I have also removed the metal floor protectors on the bottom of the 8 vanity legs and discovered that the small feet that can be leveled that I purchased will fit into the ends of the legs. Holes have to be drilled for them. Because the floor will be made waterproof, and sloped toward a drain, if I did not put levelers into the feet of the vanity, the whole thing would be unlevel and the sink would not drain properly. A and C below make up my leg levelers. Yes, I do try to think of everything. When you have THREE YEARS to do nothing but plan, you do a lot of planning! I have also purchased the shower plumbing - the rainhead, the shower temperature balancing valve, and three volume controls, one for the rain head, one for the shower head, and one for the hand-held, and the controls will each have those labels on them! I already had the shower head. I still have to decide on the hand-held system. I also purchased a really cute hand towel holder. I don't like the rings because the towel gets bunched and does not dry well. This one is from Ginger and it has two bars that move on a swivel, independently of each other. The bars are 12 inches long and the holder holds them a good 2" away from the wall. Plus, since they swivel the whole way around, if one is particularly wet, you can pull it away from the wall and it will hang perpendicular to the wall as you wait until it is dry. In this picture, they show the arms out away from the wall. Normally, they will hang closer to the wall that the thing is mounted on, I would think. For instance, I plan to hang it on the wall to the side of the vanity. The arms would be folded up close to the wall most of the time. I suppose you could install it on the wall next to the medicine cabinet and have the towels hang over the vanity area, if you liked.

This is the kind of thing I think would be very hard to plan for without spending some time living there first. But you are probably far better at doing that than I am. I have analysis paralysis and part of that is trying the place on for size before I make any major decisions. When we moved to our new lakehome we just moved our stuff in and tried it for a while and then added and changed as we discovered how we and our guests used the space. Same with our new townhome. I had all kinds of grand plans ahead of time that I'm glad I didn't commit to until after I'd lived there for a while. I changed my mind on a lot of things. It's fun to plan though!!