Hello everyone, me again with the same crashing compy...but I think it might have tried to bite the big one this time. First, my specs:

HP XL768 base compy.
AMD 900 MHz T-Bird
Asus K7M Mobo
Power supply works (unsure of #'s)
Creative SB Live! LS 5.1
GeCube Radeon (ATI) 9200 SE 128 MB GameBuster (drivers are crap)
Lan card (Linksys I think)
A couple of loud whining fans
Windows XP Pro
Mozilla Firefox (Yeah Baby!)
CD-R (mid-grade HP)
CD/DVD
floppy drive
Saitek P2500 Gamepad
etc.

What happened: Just bought Need for Speed Underground 2 (Wal-mart brought it down to $30), was playing for about an hour without a problem (a bit slow, of course), then the screen went blank and the monitor shut off (no data powersaver) and an ear-piercing high-pitched note rang through the speakers. So I gave the computer a hard-shutdown, waited 30 minutes (food), and attempted to reboot. Now all I get is the HP "Invent" boot screen and nothing else. the processor light is on constantly, and the system will not read a floppy disk. I have a bootable disk, but the system doesn't even turn the disk drive.

I would go to the recovery console if I could get to it...but all I get is the HP splash screen.

I think I might have fried something, I'm going to open the case in a bit to see if I can find any physical damage. any help would be great! thanks everyone!