gateway laptop powerup problems

hello,
i'm using a 2009 gateway laptop that i use mainly for menial tasks and a little gaming, well one day i alt-tabbed out of my game and in the process of flipping screens the computer froze and wouldn't budge so i shut it down manually and then powered it back up and it came up with three options, start windows normally, start windows in safe mode, and start up repair. so i do start up repair so it goes to the loading screen and after it loads it goes to a black screen and stops and after waiting for 1 hour or so i turn it off and try the other two....... same thing so i try all the options in the f8 start up repair options, i even took it as far as system recovery but still nothing i just goes to a black screen after loading. some help or insight in to this problem would be much appreciated.

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yeah ive done the last known good config unfortunately it still hangs but i just tried the cd and it seems emphasis on seems to be working

Hopefully the problem is solved. You may want to check out my post, again, for additional information.

ummmm the cd seems to be working i can see the blue/yellow startup screen while using the disk but i still dont see the login screen so it shows that maybe if i wait overnight it may work :S