Tech Help - Flashing Cursor

[omega_image]

Looking for any help.

Went to boot my home pc this morning and am now getting a flashing cursor....

i can get into BIOS, but i really have no idea as to what i'm looking for.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[b0ld]

try reseting the bios... when your in the bios it should tell you what button to reset the bios (Normally F9). Then save and exit and restart

Try doing a power cycle... Disconnect the power cable and hold on the power button for a minute... Reconnect... hopfully it should turn on..

Also disconnect any other third party devices hooked up to it (ie: printers, scanners, etc..) start it up and see what happens...

If these don't work and you are still having a blinking cursor then it can be quite possible that the mbr (master boot record) on the hdd is messed up..

Are there any beeps coming from the computer? if so how many beeps and how long are the beeps?

[Phrenetic]

Originally Posted by b0ld

try reseting the bios... when your in the bios it should tell you what button to reset the bios (Normally F9). Then save and exit and restart

Try doing a power cycle... Disconnect the power cable and hold on the power button for a minute... Reconnect... hopfully it should turn on..

Also disconnect any other third party devices hooked up to it (ie: printers, scanners, etc..) start it up and see what happens...

If these don't work and you are still having a blinking cursor then it can be quite possible that the mbr (master boot record) on the hdd is messed up..

Are there any beeps coming from the computer? if so how many beeps and how long are the beeps?

easy way to reset the bios is to take out the battery and put it back in, this returns it to the factory default. yes, we need to know about the beeps, a long beep means hardware failure

[omega_image]

no beeps, got it to boot from my dvd drive. trying to run a system restore from the recovery console.

[Phrenetic]

that works too

[Phrenetic]

but you may loose your data, be sure you made backups

[b0ld]

if your in recovery console... you can try chkdsk /r for it to fix up any files or what not before having to run an actual recovery and having to lose any of your data...

[LEEROY CHANG!!]

its not a bios issue because 1) you most likely didnt change any settings in your bios and 2) your system gets past your bios diagnostics during bootup

sounds like a harddrive failure. perhaps a corrupt boot sector. boot off your windows cd and run some diagnostics from the repair menu. if nothing fixes it you might have to either buy a new hd or reformat

[omega_image]

fuck............ forgot admin password.

[Gusto]

if you can get a command line from the boot cd you can also try to rewrite the master boot record with:

fdisk /mbr

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[omega_image]

sooo apparently my computer fixes itself....

time to set a restore, change admin pass, and scan the fuck out of this shit.

[Gusto]

yeah check out the hd, might be about to die. there might be an hd self test in the bios.

[omega_image]

wicked, ill check it out.

[b0ld]

might wanna do a disk defrag.. There could be a shit load of bad memory clusters that is ultimately affecting the way the harddrive is reading information.

[stringbeans]

might want to not do ANY disk diagnostics until you backup your important files to cd. if your hd really is about to die, performing any disk diagnostics really stresses out the motor of your hd