Has anyone ever come across a "White Screen of Death"?
My aged, but previously reliable Advent laptop running XP professional recently downloaded & installed about 19 different microsoft updates. It was initially fine, but the first time I rebooted after a shutdown, it booted up as normal, except when it finished it went to a white screen with no icons and the mouse cursor disappears.
Ctrl Alt Del has no effect, nor trying Alt+Tab.
If nothing else, I'd like to get the data off the hard drive backed up again.
Any thoughts?