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Blinking Cursor in top left corner of screen
Hi All,
My pc refuses to boot beyond the screen giving bios info, detecting drives etc. The pc hangs wiht the cursor flashing in the top left corner of the screen. I did a thorough check on the hard drive using the (manufacturer's) Western Digital diagnostic software. It passed. The pc boots fine when I physically change the hard drive to another. After trying almost all the 'solutions' found on the internet I do not know what to do. Any suggestions anyone? Some things tried included: resetting the bios; interchanging onboard video with pci video card; removing unnecessary peripherals; using drivers knowing to be working; restoring to a point 2 weeks earlier (manually). (Compaq pres/celeron/512 mb/160 gigs; Windows XP Pro [troubled disk]/ Home [working disk]) Help me, please! Thanks, Greer |
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Blinking Cursor in top left corner of screen
greerjohn wrote:
Hi All, My pc refuses to boot beyond the screen giving bios info, detecting drives etc. The pc hangs wiht the cursor flashing in the top left corner of the screen. I did a thorough check on the hard drive using the (manufacturer's) Western Digital diagnostic software. It passed. The pc boots fine when I physically change the hard drive to another. After trying almost all the 'solutions' found on the internet I do not know what to do. Any suggestions anyone? Some things tried included: resetting the bios; interchanging onboard video with pci video card; removing unnecessary peripherals; using drivers knowing to be working; restoring to a point 2 weeks earlier (manually). (Compaq pres/celeron/512 mb/160 gigs; Windows XP Pro [troubled disk]/ Home [working disk]) Help me, please! We don't know what "all the solutions found on the internet" means... More likely than not the "Active" partition flag has been removed. If the computer has a floppy disk drive you can boot the computer with a Windows 98 Startup diskette and verify/set the active partition flag with Fdisk. If the computer doesn't have a floppy drive you can mount the disk in another Windows XP computer and use the built-in Disk Management tool to set the "Active" partition. To launch the Disk Management tool enter diskmgmt.msc in the Start Menu Run box. John |
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