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Recognizing an external drive when rebooting
I could reboot the machine 2-6 times with no problems , but after leaving the machine switched off for about 2-3 hours , on boot-up it would recognise the BIOS , but not the HDD.(blank screen , blinking cursor ) You'd normally expect more than that, complaining about no hard drive. That might well point to the fact

Blank screen after startup
During setup, I've selected both the windows generic VGA and SVGA drivers and neither of them work: I get the windows 3.11 banner and then the screen goes blank except for an underline type cursor on the upper left hand corner. I've tried setup from hard disk a number of times. I also tried switching both the card

Blank screen after startup
andrew.den...@cpadsl.co.uk novell support suse linux professional Problem: after a full graphical install with no problems, the first time you boot the machine and try and start x (with kde or gnome as you prefer) all you get is a blank screen. Non-gui functioning is just fine and dandy.

Startup repair not working
The setup program copied all files to \WINNT and after the first reboot, the boot fails (blank screen). Maybe I need to replace some system files? But, before I made all these things, my Win 98 partition was FAT16 and NT was installed on a extented partition with the same size and it worked fine.

Blank Screen at Startup
3. Press the Spacebar once to add a blank space, then add the number 3 to tell GRUB to boot into Linux text mode. Press [Enter] to make the editing change take effect. 4. You will be brought back to the edit mode screen. From here, press [b] and GRUB will boot into the Linux text mode. After it finishes loading,

CD Install problem (blank screen after boot)
Originally installed to NTFS but it would not boot after the FS conversion. I scrapped that and reinstalled fresh to FAT part. All worked fine. Applied service pack and rebooted--no problem. I ran convert to NTFS and after the conversion, when system rebooted, the system hung on a blank screen with a cursor

Windows XP won't boot to normal mode
Larry larry.ri...@cox.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support After booting system (Windows XP Pro) I end up with a blank screen except for the mouse pointer which will move. Ctl-Alt-Del does nothing - only way to reboot is via power button. If started in safe mode w/ network support, still end up with

SBS2003 wont boot after a windos update hotfix
-----Original Message----- I had to reload windows 98 se (sp2) on my machine. Now, after startup, at random time intervals (from 10 to 60+ minutes) the screen goes black and am left with a blinking cursor in upper left corner. If machine is warm restarted it acts like a normal load until failure. Any ideas? .

Blank screen - No First Boot Agen
OtisUsenet otis_use...@yahoo.com microsoft public windowsxp basics Hello, I'm trying to reinstall Windows XP from a CD, but after booting from the CD, and a message on the top of the screen saying "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration...", the screen goes blank and the HD-access LED starts

SuSE 9.1 - blank screen during boot
Thanks. Malke wrote: OtisUsenet wrote: Hello, I'm trying to reinstall Windows XP from a CD, but after booting from the CD, and a message on the top of the screen saying "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration...", the screen goes blank and the HD-access LED starts blinking madly.

blank screen after startup....
(I can't seem to love it or leave it) I've never had much of a problem compiling custom kernels before but this time all I get after rebooting is a blank screen so I have absolutely no idea of where the problem is. I can of course boot with the "failsafe" entry in Lilo's config file so it isn'ta complete disaster.

Bank Screen
I've tried alt, control, and shift F10 right after I hit the power button. I get the Acer start screen, then the black screen, then the windows loading bar. On booting to safe mode, I encountered the Startup Repair program. It seemed to repair something the first time around. When it restarted and I tried to

No image on screen after boot
Instead it shows a black screen with "Jumping to 0x00...." written, and after 4 minutes it displays the windows CE Desktop. Do you know why it takes so much but after that it display a black screen with "jumping to 0x00229348" and anymore. If I use loadcepc with eboot (selecting case 2 or 3 or 4 instead of 1)

Explorer error
Start your system in Safe Mode (either hold down the Ctrl key or press F8 after memory and drives are checked but before Windows starts up) and go to Display When my friends laptop boots, Win98 icon appears, goes away, sound occurs, blank screen. I can get into set-up. I can get the command prompt and can check

SBS2003 wont boot after a windos update hotfix
At any other time, whether I click restart from the shutdown window, whether it's a restart after downloading an update from another application or whether it's a restart after loading in a program disk all I get is a blank screen and I have power down and do a cold reboot. It's not a major problem, but one that I

Blank screen after boot up
Now it will start sit on a black screen for 5-6 minutes and then slowly piece by piece load the start up screen - upon logging in the screen will sit blank If I open IE7 the screen will load the page but show the thinking circle for about 1 minute. This has all just happened after Windows Update installed the

Slow Startup After 2-13-08 Windows Updates - Vista Business
After getting the updates (except for 1 that failed) it said it had to re-boot and I clicked OK. The system re-booted and after POST (I think) sat for a long time at a blank screen with a flashing cursor at the top left. Since it didn't seem to be responding, I manually re-started it and it did not go to the boot

Vista Black Screen on start up
After full Bootup go back to "msconfig" and under the "General" tab choose Selective Startup Uncheck "Load Startup Items" to see if the box boots okay. because now when his computer starts up, we get the Windows logo, the antivirus logo, windows login, and then a blank screen, with just the mouse arrow on it.

Blank screen after normal startup
ck c...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public dataprotectionmanager Post your email, then i can send fix for x64 and x84 to you... i got both from MS the other week and they works. ck "ebrola" wrote: I have found several threads here with the same problem and the solution was a hotfix..

Blank screen at boot after installing TNT2 64 AGP.
Everything installed (using the latest install update w/ a friend's CDROM) but when I restart nothing happens; I'm left staring at a blank screen. LILO.conf is # general section # boot = /dev/sda install = /boot/boot.b message = /boot/message prompt # wait 20 seconds (200 10ths) for user to select the entry to load