16 minutes ago, ltcap said:

thanks

so on ther power supply..........are they all the same? connectivity-wise? or do I need to find one with specific connectors?

If you bring your PC to the shop, I will pick it up and fix it for you if possible, it should be!

 

I usually start troubleshooting at level 101. Are you using a wireless keyboard? If so, do you have a wired keyboard that you can use to get into the BIOS screen.

It appears that you can't send a break, but are making it through up to the OS selection (windows Boot manager). That means BIOS is loading, and then it is trying to load Windows from your HD. If it were working before, then I would suspect a corrupt OS or bad drive. You may have to perform a recovery to find which. 

I would take-up some of the offers to fix it for you, should only take an hour or so.

11 hours ago, Scorpio64 said:

You are logged on as baby cap, not logged on with your usual account.  You must have set up an alternate account on the laptop.

Russians hacked him.

@JohnnyB thank GOD i listened to you and hooked this up through a ups. for like the last week, electricity in my town's been going out randomly for just a few minutes at a time. i'd be PISSED if that happened and cooked my new shiny computer.

I'm glad it survived the outages!