A workmate attempted to upgrade a friends compaq presario from ME to XP,after
he had finished, the monitor display would not come on, the active light on
the monitor flashed on for about 3 seconds then went back to standby.

I have visited the Compaq website and attempted to reset the BIOS using
their instructions but to no avail, attempting to get into safe mode is no
good either, no display.
The original ME operating system is is stored on the hard drive, so no
access to that either.

Any suggestions?

John