Black screen w/ blinking cursor

[FlaBill]

Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
which is foreign to him.
How can he restart Windows?
Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
details.
He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
Bill

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor


"FlaBill" <WFWPics@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b480be52-5c69-447f-ba4e-396f0c971407@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
> F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
> which is foreign to him.
> How can he restart Windows?
> Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
> details.
> He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
> Bill

The blinking cursor often indicates that the system partition on
the hard disk is not marked active. Without suitable tool he would
not be able to fix this problem. Ask him to take the machine to
a computer repair shop.

 

[Navigator]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <WFWPics@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>which is foreign to him.
>How can he restart Windows?
>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>details.
>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>Bill
Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
starts to load. In other words...

Ask elsewhere

 

[Galen Somerville]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor


"Navigator" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message
news:qr6f94582296t41m1mr0ta7tkqoo1cqta5@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <WFWPics@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>>which is foreign to him.
>>How can he restart Windows?
>>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>>details.
>>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>>Bill
> Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
> starts to load. In other words...
>
> Ask elsewhere
>

I can't find any sites named "elsewhere" !!

 

[Bob I]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor



Galen Somerville wrote:

> "Navigator" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message
> news:qr6f94582296t41m1mr0ta7tkqoo1cqta5@4ax.com...
>
>>On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <WFWPics@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>>>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>>>which is foreign to him.
>>>How can he restart Windows?
>>>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>>>details.
>>>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>>>Bill
>>
>>Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
>>starts to load. In other words...
>>
>>Ask elsewhere
>>
>
>
> I can't find any sites named "elsewhere" !!
>
>

Since you say it is HP computer, HP site is the elsewhere place. Start
at link below.

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

 

[Sandy]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor

I'm working with a similar problem, and have asked for help earlier today. My
question is how do you tell if a partition is activated? I've used the
"Diskpart" tool in Vista, and see that the O/S is booting off the "Recovery"
drive rather than the "C" drive. So, how do I change that? Thanks Sandy
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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "FlaBill" <WFWPics@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b480be52-5c69-447f-ba4e-396f0c971407@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> > Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
> > F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
> > which is foreign to him.
> > How can he restart Windows?
> > Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
> > details.
> > He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
> > Bill
>
> The blinking cursor often indicates that the system partition on
> the hard disk is not marked active. Without suitable tool he would
> not be able to fix this problem. Ask him to take the machine to
> a computer repair shop.
>
>
>