Hi. I just installed the free Home version of Avast Anti-virus on my XP machine. The initial bootscan seemed to run correctly, but then when the machine started to boot to Windows, the screen went dead (black, but not "displaying" black . . . dead black).
Now when I reboot, the screen acts normally just long enough to see the opening "Windows XP" logo, then it goes dead again. From the sounds of it, the PC boots up correctly.
I restarted in Safe Mode and removed the MacAfee software that the PC came with, but that didn't help.
I restarted again in Safe Mode and removed the Avast software, but that didn't help either. Can anyone offer some advice? Thanks in advance for your help!