Checking out your other suggestions and will attempt reboot. I have an update! The zero reboot method pet your specific instructions dif not work, but somethong else did due to your great know how. I inserted my AVG disk.
I upgraded version just last week, so I hope the old version recognizes the virus. Nevertheless, with CD inserted into drive, I rebooted the machine.
AVG Boot Manager screen next offered several options: 1. Boot grom floppy disk NOT an option 5. Boot from hard disk Can't! Boot from next device on the BIOS boot sequence 7. MemtestAdvanced Memory Diagnostic Tool 8. Exit to the syslinux boot prompt. Please kindly advise? Can you connect to Internet via Ethernet cable? Takes a while but you should arrive at this screen.
Yes, of course, I am in process of that very task. I also used some other great tools that gives more info. Scan is slow and in process. Networking was a bit slow because Wifi does not work. Hunted down an ethernet cable and got the job done. I used a lot of other tools,but nothing worked thus far, including trying to create a USB boot flash drive.
I asked AVG to check virus vault, and it reported nothing in the vault. Perhaps because the versions of software differ? I did not empty. Anyway, AVG virus definitions are completely updated.
Well, the fact that you can boot from the AVG disk would indicate that your basic functions are sound, but don't understand the BIOS error completely. Suspect it has to do with booting from Ubuntu. If the AVG scan fails to reveal anything, and your Recovery Partition appears to be malfunctioning, next course of action will be to re-install Vista Win 8 beckons Hi Dodger.
AVG recovery disk also checked virus vault and found it empty. Is this because of the different versions? I did not empty the vault at that time AVG found it because I was uncertain of safest protocol. Makes me wonder where the darn virus really is. Would BIOS info. Be of use to you? Feels like we are getting closer to needin an installation disk When I attempt to boot normally, the computer just gives me a blinking cursor right after my motherboard splash screen.
Windows does not load. I run my system recovery disk. When I get in, system recovery says there is no installed OS. I run command prompt and get into diskpart. This is correct. When I run list partition I learn that this partition is my primary partition and it has an offset of MB. I suggest using a different mouse and keyboard if you have one available to see if you can get Windows to start normally. I spent all day trying to get past that blinking cursor.
Then I stumbled across your discussion of this problem. I started going down the line and found my usb printer was plugged in. Removed the USB cable and its working great now. Thanks very much. Thank you so much for all your positive, encouraging, fun way that you direct people to the problem and the detailed solutions. The way that you share your personal experience and information is so helpful and refreshing to make a person think that they can fix their computer problems.
With your amazing help, we finally after disconnecting the flash drive to no avail opened our minds to the solution: unhook the auxiliary printer!!! Hello, i first want to say that im not very tech saavy and that my problem occured after installing a windows update. After reading your article im convinced that it was the update and that booting with a windows 7 os disk will repair it, but i dont know if that will wipe my memory or just take the stupid flashing dash in the top left of my screen after i turn on my computer.
Im using a toshiba laptop less than a year old and i really need what i have saved on it for school. Please help me out and thanks in advance.
I want to thankyou for your wonderful advice. I was having a problem with this black screen and after reading your article, I began to work. I found out that it was trying to boot to a non-bootable device and have changed the settings in the bios system.
After doing that, the computer started just fine. Thank you again for the tips and hope that they also help more people as it has helped me. Apparently, something was preventing my Windows Xp from properly booting. This Plop Boot Manager, within a click of the mouse, was able boot itself and find and boot my windows. Here are the steps I took to recover. Then created a new partition using Acronis Disk Director.
Now the new partition was new viewable by Acronis True Image. Now the test, try to boot it, and I came to a black screen with flashing cursor. This time only that it booted all the way normally with no BSOD. Thank you for this!!! I have had it sitting in my closet for about six months. Tried the very first suggestion on this page and it worked! So I restored from the recovery partition then cloned the disk onto a new one using Ghost v9 on my PC.
I might try recloning using a different utility like clonezilla, in case this is a Ghost problem. It booted up great the last time I used it; I installed all the updates, installed all the drivers, restarted it a couple times, and it was working like a charm. Then I put it into hibernation and left it alone for a day, and now I have the blinking black screen cursor of evil. I can actually adjust screen brightness with it. It seems to think about using it, and whirrs around with it for a bit, but I never get anywhere other than black screen, blinking cursor.
What I did was that I dug up my giant box of computer parts and found an old hard drive that had Windows installed on it. Have you confirmed that your Windows os disc works.. If it does then you could go into bios and disable the cd drive and only boot to the hard drive.. The original hard drive if possible.
This will test to see if it will go into the hard drive.. IT would even be better if you disconnected the cd drive properly, just to test it. My OS disc works but it looks like the volume was corrupted beyond repair it failed when I tried to boot from the original hard drive so I was going to do a full reinstall. Hi there what about this article about repairing the MBR of a hard drive? Hi, I have a similar problem. When stating Windows XP my system boots to a blinking black screen, with the windows page behind it.
There is also a clicking sound when the screen flashes. Any suggestions how to fix this. I have a lot of pictures and files in my documents that I do not want to lose. I am not very good with computers so hopefully there is an easy solution Thanks, Gary. The clicking sound coinciding with the screen flickering sound like a monitor or video card problem..
Probably more the monitor if the sound comes from there? It is hard to say without hearing this.. Hi, Yes it was the monitor. I have replaced the monitor and everything is OK. I have the same issue with a blinking cursor after the bios on a Toshiba Satellite LS To make a long story short this laptop is for a client. I put back the hard drive and still no go. I removed all the optical drives, ram, wireless card and battery then did one at a time and still a no go.
The laptop is running Win 7 So I popped the disk in tried the f2 and changed it to boot up on optical and still get the cursor blinking. Tried to hit f12 to and the screen comes up but after you select load from optical and there it went again with the blinking cursor.
I even, tried to boot Win 7 from a bootable made USB and the same problem. Once the bios screen is passed it goes blank and the cursor blinks. After all this all I can think of is that the motherboard has a short or the CPU is bad. Either way those parts are way too expensive and I would rather have the client buy a new computer.
Toshiba has a big problem on their hands..! After all this I said what the heck… I took the entire laptop apart and removed the Cmos battery, processor, motherboard and all the other drives I had previously removed and just let it sit there. I cleaned out the heat sink and fan, after about 30 minutes I reinstalled everything back except for the Cmos battery.
Note also on the CPU I put some thermal paste and then installed the heat sink with the fan. Well after all this I booted up the laptop and I still got the blinking cursor, BUT this time it only blinked like 10 times then it self booted my Windows 7 disk I had in the Cd-Rom drive. After I installed the new system I took the laptop apart and reinstalled the Cmos battery and the system still worked.
Call it luck but the laptop issue with the blinking light was solved and I made As soon as i activate boot from hdd on any position, in boot sequence in the boot menu , everyother option become unbootable and end up with blank screen with blinking cursor; untill the next restart, where i have to go again in the boot menu and disable the hdd. But i can boot from ln, usb, external hdd or cd.
Only condition i have to disable the Hdd in the boot menu. I am left 1 option to try, format everything and try, Format everything and male partitions a fresh and ten a clean install :non:. Hi there Wow you have done alot here I would test the hard drive by putting it in an external case a 2. Also when your hard drive it out and bios is set to boot to the hard drive start the computer without it and see what the message is on the screen , if any.
Another thing you can check is the ram.. Just take one piece out.. Mitz, Thanks for the Reply. What a Drag. Hello, so i bought a computer from studentcomputers it worked fine with the built in graphic card however suddenly after trying to turn it on one day , the screen went black straight awayy , keyboard or mouse did not work, and a long code was displayed at the top left.
However, after turning it off the next time it didnt work the problem is it doesnt even load anything straight away a black screen comes with the flashing cursor at the top left but this time without any code, once again no keyboard and mouse works. Any help? When the computer worked did it everything work..
What about the plugs. Maybe there is a problem with your onboard video now.. Can you try another keyboard? If you could get into safe mode you could completely update drivers for the onboard video. What about trying a boot disc or your operating disc to do a repair?
Maybe you can go to studentcomputers and ask them for one to try. I recently got my Dell Inspiron Laptop I got an error while surfing online i restarted my laptop for some odd reason.. Hi Renee. I just wanted to say the same exact thing happened to my dell Inspiron laptop not too long ago.
While I was using my laptop it said I should shut it down for its safety or something and I when I started it up again it had a blue screen that flashed by then went into the whole safe mode or normally screen.
If I tried to start normally, the blue screen flashed and back to the safe mode or normally screen again. So I went into safe mode and had to restore it. Also, my laptop screen is broken, so for both the issue I had, and for this one, I have to rely on an old computer monitor.
Check the pins for your keyboard.. Unplug your keyboard and try and start it.. It should say keyboard not present.. Also, after resetting the CMOS the keyboard is responsive and I can use the arrow keys to select options after a checksum error appears only to continue to the blinking cursor screen. My pc is running windows xp. After i insert the disk and restart the pc, the black screen with flashing cursor comes on and sits there for about 20 seconds in the meantime i hear the disk spinning and the light flashing, all of the sudden the disk and flashing light stops, the black screen goes out and windows boots normal from the hd.
What could be the problem??? My Dell desktop, running Windows XP, now boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Sometimes the admin password is nothing so you just press enter at that stage.. Did you try that? Also you can take the hard drive out and place it in as external hard drive case and connect it to another computer to get the files off.
After that, just a black screen with a blinking cursor. Even when I try tapping or holding F10 for Boot Menu, it brings me to the same black screen with flashing cursor. I have Windows 7 and things seemed to be OK up until this weekend. I had gotten several system and software updates from Windows Update last week, and then later I got the really fun blue screen of death. I chose the option to repair damaged sectors and was going to let it run overnight. I thought that was odd since it always creates them before updates.
So now, since my lovely backup drive stopped working a little while back, I do not know what to do. What can I do? There must be something wrong with your hard drive.. I would not run chkdsk as it will be trying to repair bad sectors and you might have files on those bad sectors. Can you try another hard drive? Or can you put your hard drive in an external case and try to access the files to copy to another computer? You also could try repairing the boot sector of your hard drive but there possibly could be other problems.
Ahh ok. So my feeble attempts at fixing were actually bad! Do you recommend getting a new hard drive altogether or should I look into the BootSuite program that you wrote about in your other entry that you linked, try some more diagnostics, and then ultimately format the drive?
Would formatting get rid of the errors or whatever it may be? Would I possibly be able to find out what the issue is with BootSuite? I need to install some new RAM chips though. I think you found a restore point that was not corrupted. You could try a free program to check the health of your hard disk.. I am having a black screen with fashing text cursor in the upper left hand corner. I have tried all suggestions left on the posts below.
I am unable to start in safe mode. No response. I have also even tried the recovery disc, but that only gets 77 percent done from the two discs and stops. It doesnt make it to the welcomr nor the log in screen. I need help. I am using windows vista. I have also changed the boot order. I do hear the hard drive turning as well. The recovery disc was to change all window settings to default. Misteriously the internet works like a shit its not the problem, desactivated lan too , Misteriously when I put another windows hd of another computer it works, the internet keeps working like a shit and I have the feeling that computer is notd runing well.
Misteriously after everything work fine ———————————- everything happens again! I think is a mobo malfunction, but what can I do? Wow what hell you have been through… So its not the hardware because mac works…and its not the hard drive files… What about the bios. Did you change settings in there? What is the boot order? My fault ….. Maybe it is just a misterious problem with my onboard USB, a pin, resistor etc… wow…..
Glad you found the problem.. Never heard of this one though…Thanks for adding to our list of problems.. I was telling you to check the bios to see the boot order…great find… Interesting.. But, I can move the cursor and it even lets me log into the system with username and password. I do not have the discs for Windows 7 and I have never done a back-up to my computer on discs or other hard drive.
All that is available upon start up is the HP system check and restore to factory settings by pressing the escape key. Why is my screen black when I start Windows 7? Saving any needed data and re-installing Windows 7 might be the best option though here are a few others. You can save your files by putting the drive in another computer or an external drive case and then backing them up. Do so using several methods in a redundant manner. Of course a real computer shop or your System maker can help recover the files.
Or you could use an Ubuntu boot CD to back up the data. Repeatedly tap F8 as you boot? Safe Mode is reached by repeatedly tapping F8 as you boot up. First check this thread in case its a simple one and if not come back to this thread.
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