S1 and S2 type sleep apparently should not work on my system. I therefore went to the control panel and changed the advanced power settings to allow hybrid sleep. All of a sudden my laptop no longer had any problems waking from sleep, and i have not had any other booting issues since. I cannot be sure that my problems were not fixed by removing and re-inserting the RAM a few times, however it seems to me that the changes to the sleep settings did the trick.
Why this should make any difference to normal booting is beyond me. Posted 11 June - AM. Although sleep works flawlessly on my laptop now, I just tried a restart and was presented with the blinking cursor again. I turned it off and then attempted to start it again, but this time was presented with a blank page with no cursor. I then left it for half and hour and tried again, and this time it booted ok. Therefore it does seem that messing about with the RAM was what breathed life back into the restart of my computer last time round in much the same way as taking out and reinserting the SDD has done.
However, I'm not really any closer to finding the underlying problem. I am having the same start up issues as I was before I replaced my hard drive. Being as I have re-installed the operating system windows 7 home premium from a different source then I guess we can rule out operating system as well as damage to the hard drive as problem areas.
Does the issue occur when the battery is removed and you are using the AC adapter to power the notebook. Posted 19 September - PM.
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I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Nirmal S's post on September 18, So with no thumb drive present we have a blinking cursor. Problem fixed.
Hi i have a HP pavilion Dvus and i am have a problem with it. I used it in the day good and in the even it wont come just a black screen and the lights for the power , speaker and the other control lights are just blinking.
It like the computer want to start up and it wont start. You can see the fan starting and stopping. If you press ctrl, alt and delete the light will stop blinking and they will stay on and the fan will stay on but you will still have a black screen. Can someone tell what can be causing this problem. Hello, What can I do to repair the black screen with blinking curser if I cannot locate The operating disc Win XP that came with my computer?
If tried system restore but had no luck. I am Jackel and i have a problem… My computer turns on and goes straight to the black screen with blinking underscore… it does not give option for bios or anything… ive done lots of things to see if any would work… and nothing helps… email me any advice that might help solve this problem plz.
I disconnected all the cords and opened up the computer, reset the CMOS by removing the CMOS battery, leaving it out for while 30 seconds to 1 minute and putting back onto the motherboard. Thank you sooo much i though i was doomed, but I did leave my external hard drive plugged in.
I took it out and voila!! It worked!!! This is what worked for me after trying tons of suggestions. I booted with the windows cd. Deleted the recovery partition which in my case was 10gb, just enough to install Windows Home Premium. Installed Windows to that 10gb partition. Then I was able to access my files, back them up, reformat the whole drive and reinstall windows.
What would have been easier would have been to remove the hard drive, use a drive adapter and copy all of the info off the drive to another computer. Put the drive back in and reinstall windows after deleting all partitions from the windows install screen.
Either of these scenarios would have destroyed the recovery partition but I wasn;t able to access the recovery files anyways….. Bottom line, there was a boot problem that fixed itself when I formatted the recovery partition. Your cd drive is playing up? OR Your windows disc is damaged? Try copying the disc onto a new disc. Thank you so much for this.
I kept getting stuck at the black screen with a blinking cursor, changing the boot order worked like a charm somehow USB had ended up at the top of the list?
Thanks again! Thanks so much for the tips! Just unplugged my mouse and keyboard, and took my cd drive out, and it worked again.
Not sure if my cd drive was faulty, or if it was just the usbs, but ill check into that later. This problem recently happened to me after I purchased an external hard drive to keep important files on. I recently agreed to install some programs on my dell laptop windows 7 version. When restarting the screen is black with the flashing underscore in the top left-hand corner.
Any advice? Please kindly help me out. Hi, my problem is when I trade on Forex my charts flicker and jump all over the place. Would you know how to remedy this. Everything else is fine. If I keep my charts small it can stop the splitting and jumping however small charts have no value to me. Kind regards, Mick….. Hi Mick Some stuff is made for later versions of Windows. I am not sure if you are opening these charts in Excel or on the internet on a site but I will guess that you could try changing the screen resolution to handle what you are looking at better.
You can do this by right clicking on the desktop and choosing properties from the menu. Can you please help? Have you started with the basics like checking to see if something is plugged in or if all your cables are in correctly.
I dont have a disk is there a way to still view my old pictures or is all lost. So, I erased my windows partition and installed mac on it!
Even if I press any key, all I do get is nothing! I still get to the black screen with the blinking cursor! Can you help me?
Well if that is normal, I have tried restoring my computer to one of those automatic restore points that Windows creates when updating and my computer still had not been able to go past the black screen and I have not recently installed any programs into my desktop. I was just using the internet on day and all of a sudden my desktop just began shutting off.
I turned it back on like 5 minutes later just to the black screen. I also do not have any external drives on my desktop as what you said in the arrival above of which may be the problem to some computers.
Please help because I have no idea on what I should do. My brothers downloaded a game off of some website and ever since then Norton protection messages have been popping up on the screen.
Then one day, when I turned on my computer, there was a black screen with a flashing cursor. I have no idea what happened, I think the computer may have crashed? But I have no clue. If anyone has any help as to how to fix this, it would be of much help. Please and thank you :. My problem was that I was downgrading from Windows 8 Release Preview, and I had a power failure durring the process.
The I received the Black Screen with flashing curser. I went into my BIOS and loaded all of the defaults. Went in and it said that their was no OS installed. Thank you thank you thank you!! Very simple fix. Was panicking. Stupid USB port!! Did I say thanks? The solution to my black screen problem was not even too deep into your list of easy fixes.
I am thrilled to get my day back to normal so easily. Hi there i have just got cursor mania and i put i restore delfult and its dosent look like it the computer im using is a Lenovo g please help me. 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..
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