black screen on startup with active cursor

I have an old Dell Dimension 3000 has a processor Celeron, 512 MB RAM and was purchased in 04.  Despite his age, he has been a good PC and is mainly a backup unit when the main PC is used by my wife. Recently in November 2011 I lit it and as usual, Microsoft has had an update for me to download if I choose to. I downloaded the update, (can't tell you what update) and restart my PC.  The next time I turned it on I got the Dell splash screen and the Microsoft logo screen then black screen with a cursor active.  After reboot, I hit F12 and chose something like "go to last good known configuration" with the same black screen thereafter.  I kept rebooting and some so chose an option "Repair or r", and after that he went by the disk check and the areas I was once again on the black screen.  I then found my original installation disk and tried to start out with the same as before resutls... black screen.  I forgot to mention that Safe Mode does not work, I rebooted with no media in the CD drive, and I'm at a standstill.  Does anyone have the answers to my problem?  Thanks in advance for all your help.

Wayne

It's a shame, that we do not know what update it was!

Do you have to manually download and install updates or use automatic updates? If the latter, which is enabled:
Automatic
Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them
Notify me but don't automatically download or install
For later use, as a general rule, you must install ONLY the updates critical or high priority. Installation software optional or made optional hardware update can be risky! (There are some exceptions to the optional software, for example, root certificates update.)
You can try different methods to repair your installation, but if you can simply perform a system restore, which should solve the problem fairly quickly. Then simply determine what updates (remember: only critical or priority!) you still need.
I don't know if SR work because you are having problems to start in Normal Mode. If you're lucky, you'll be able to boot mode safe mode with command prompt. If you do this, follow these instructions:
Choose the date before the updates (15 November?).
If you can not do the above, then post back for tips on how to use your Dell XP 'relocation' of brand CD CAREFULLY. You don't want to do something drastic like reinstall Windows!

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