Black screen w/ blinking cursor

[Guest 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

[Guest 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.

[Guest 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

[Guest Galen Somerville]

Re: Black screen w/ blinking cursor

 

 

"Navigator" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message

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> 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" !!

[Guest 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

[Guest 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

--

IT Services Help Center

 

 

"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.

>

>

>