[superwoofy]

In response to the previous post above:

I had a very similar issue with starting my pc. Normally I would see the cpu specs etc. For the longest time - well, for two weeks - I thought i had some kind of a hardware based trojan. Later I learned what a rarity this is. I gotta give props to my computer guy. I found him on The Computer Guy Network and he hooked it up so thank YOCS . I had checked the bios and reset all the defaults. My problem was a combination of two things.

The first was, my boot was set to quick boot, which is why i was no longer seeing the POST displaying properly. The second WAS in fact a virus that had rooted itself in my startup. However, rather than getting a blue screen, my PC would just reboot. Basically it was a cycle of black screens that showed me nothing. YOCs showed me how to go into MSCONFIG (in safe mode) and uncheck the virus from loading at startup. I was then able to boot to the Operating System and remove the virus. Props to you YOCs and everyone here for their insight.