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Black Screen at Start Up
Lulu,
Thanks for your help. I''ll try it when I get home. This will probably sound like a dumb question, but how do I get into BIOS on reboot. I'm not great with computers and really don't have an extensive knowledge of working outside of Windows (like with Dos). Let me know if you can. Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- I recently had a similar problem and it turned out that my BIOS settings were messed up. Try going into BIOS on reboot, check the time & date (mine was 00:00:00) and reset settings to default and see if that works. After you do that, also remember to check your Windows setting for time & date also. -----Original Message----- Hi all, I just reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP. I downloaded all the neccessary updates from the Microsoft site and XP was working for about a day and a half. Now, when I start up the computer, it boots, the Windows XP Screen comes up (with the blue cursor scrolling in the small oval thing), and then it acts like its going to load and goes to a black screen, like it usually would, but now it just stays at the black screen.... I can't do anything from this point, so I just manually turn off the computer. I turn it back on, and the option comes up to restart the computer in safe mode, normal mode, or last known good configuration. The only option that works is the Safe Mode option. I get into safe mode fine and the computer boots and runs in safe mode. After getting into safe mode, I then shut down and choose restart....the system restarts, everything works fine, but then the black screen comes up after the Windows XP boot screen, and it just stays there. I've tried at least 10 times and one time Windows XP actually started up and ran correctly but the other nine or so the black screen came up and nothing ever happened after that. Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian . . |
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