startup hangs at a blackscreen with fixed pointer

startup hangs at a blackscreen with fixed pointer computer frozen at black screen w fixed pointer

#16 barlow

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 11:10 PM

I just filmed the start sequence, can i post a "movie" here?

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 11:13 PM

I honestly don't know. Is there any website that you can post this to and then give us a link to it? If you can just take a picture of what that boot-option menu that you saw, I might be able to identify what your looking at.

btw...I won't be on the forums anymore tonight. I'll check back in the morning.

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#18 barlow

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 11:20 PM

ok I got to the BIOS Setup utility screen, does that help?

Thanks Josh TTYL!

Thanks Josh TTYL!

Thanks Josh TTYL!

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 11:52 PM

so I uploaded all these videos of the start sequence to snapfish.com and it went well, but I don't know how to let you/anyone see it? Doing so with out an email addy might be tough?

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 06:58 AM

There's probably a public link you can give people so they can see it.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 09:08 AM

Please read Black Screen (fixmbr) - http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314503

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#22 barlow

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 02:22 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I am currently trying to digest the items in the MS help page for the problem. Other than discovering I can access the BIOS screen, whatever that is, I think my true problem may be that I can not get the F8 key to display anything other than the "please select boot device" blue screen with the 1st floppy drive and 3 other cryptic options displayed. Maybe I should re-title this problem "F8 key not working properly"?

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 02:28 PM

here's a link I made to my flicker page that has the last few moments of the CHK DISC process, does this show anything relevant?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28374914@N07/5930278593/

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 06:14 PM

Sweet Mary, Mother of God! On about my bazillionth attempt to boot up I got the F8 button to work (I could not begin to tell you how I did this)I immediatly system restored to the year 1975 and blessed be our Lord! It's working! Halleluliah and Holy $hit! Now to clean and update and sweep the caca out of this POS!

Aloha, and thanks again for the help you guys!

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