Here’s my problem… I was trying to boot in safe mode and marked the /SAFEBOOT box in System Configuration Utility and rebooted and now it just goes to a blank screen, like its dead.

I have Windows XP and when I F8 and do get to the safe mode options and hit enter, it lists a bunch of lines like this:
Multi (0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\dr ivers\fltmgr.sys

I don't have the discs that came with the computer, by the way, and even if I did have them, my disc drive doesn’t work.

Please help, if you can, thanks!

When you get to the Safe Mode options (Windows Advnaced Options Menu) screen, select Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked) instead of Safe Mode, see if that gets you booted normally again.

Some info here about it: How to start you computer by using ....

Thank you for the information, Rich. However, nothing has worked at all. Now I have an even bigger problem though, it will not even start at all now. No power or anything.

I have another question and hope that you know the answer; can my information be saved, like pics and docs? I don't mind having to buy a new comp, but hate to lose all of my things on there. Would any of the 'geek' places know how to get my stuff from it now?

Safeboot goes to blank screen

Yes, the data on your hard drive is almost certainly still there and accessible. There are a couple things you can do to access it.

1. Buy a USB 2.0 external enclosure and mount the hard drive in it, then plug it into another computer to access and save your data. This also will serve you below when I mention backup.
2. Mount the hard drive from this computer in a different computer as a slave drive, then save all your data.
3. Have your computer repaired, and as part of the repair process, have them install a new hard drive and remove the one that is currently in it. Once the computer is repaired (may just be the power supply, $40 - $60), do as in #2 above, install the old hard drive as a slave drive then copy anything you want form the old drive to the new one.

Once you have a working system and your data is recovered, implement a good backup strategy that will protect you from a hardware or software failure in the future.

I'd recommend getting an external USB 2.0 drive enclosure, with fan and at least a 250GB hard drive (IDE). Then you can buy Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost or go the free route and use DriveImage XML.

If you go the DIXML route then you will want to also get and build Ultimate Boot CD For Windows (UBCD4WIN). It is a bootable CD that you create on your computer using your own copy of Windows XP. One of it's included tools is DIXML so in the event of a hard drive failure you just replace the drive, boot the UBCD4WIN CD and restore from your external USB drive.

Keep the backup current.

I use Acronis and keep two full backups and replace the oldest. I do this usually once every two months unless I've made some significant changes to my system in which case I do it immediately. I also have the Acronis Secure Zone setup and automatically backup just my boot drive every night at 9:30PM. I do a full backup on Sunday night then incremental backups the rest of the week. That way Acronis can manage the SecureZone space so I don't have to manually manage it.

If you do decide to buy a new computer, go with one that you can get Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Pro on. It's a bit of a learning curve from XP, but well worth the effort in my opinion. It comes with pretty good backup software so you won't need anything else, just the external enclosure and drive.