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Offline TalonX

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Death of a desktop
« on: October 23, 2007, 08:50:44 PM »
Well, now I am screwed.   Desktop boots through the vid card and loads bios, then........

the blinking cursor....

Can't enter setup (F2), F12, or safe mode F8.  

I suppose fixing this is major surgery.  




Edit - oops...please move to tech support.
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2007, 10:42:52 PM »
bad mouse ????
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Offline Spatula

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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2007, 10:58:02 PM »
so BIOS loads up no probs? Sounds like your boot sector is off color. Either that or check the boot order in BIOS??
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Offline Shaky

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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2007, 11:22:12 PM »
Get into your BIOS setup (usually by pressing DEL as it powers up) and seee if you can get a boot off a floppy back up or a Windows CD. If that works, you know its something on the HD.
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Offline jaxxo

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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2007, 12:02:08 AM »
been keeping mine barely breathing for 7 years..  takes lots of patience , but u can find a cure
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Offline Slash27

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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2007, 12:26:24 AM »
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Originally posted by jaxxo
been keeping mine barely breathing for 7 years..  takes lots of patience , but u can find a cure


I think he's talking computers, not blow up dolls.

















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Offline kilz

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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2007, 12:32:26 AM »
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Originally posted by Slash27
I think he's talking computers, not blow up dolls.

















:D



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Offline A8TOOL

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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2007, 01:52:17 AM »
On the motherboard there is a thing called a Jumper. Find the one you need to pull and reinsert to reset the bios.  All you'll need is the location and a pair of needle nose pliers. Make sure system is off , unplugged and you grounded yourself to something metal when you first touch the machine once opened.  It could be that simple and worth a try since free.
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Offline kvuo75

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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2007, 08:15:59 AM »
exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, in my case, i disconnected my ipod, and it rebooted just fine.  so if it ever happens again im disconnecting all USB devices first.
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Offline The Fugitive

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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2007, 08:49:20 AM »
Mine did this once too, I uninstalled my USB stuff and reinstalled it. Been running fine ever since.
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