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Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: TalonX 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.

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: Roscoroo on October 23, 2007, 10:42:52 PM

bad mouse ????

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: Spatula 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??

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: Shaky 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.

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: jaxxo 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

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: Slash27 on October 24, 2007, 12:26:24 AM

Quote

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.

















:D

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: kilz on October 24, 2007, 12:32:26 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Slash27
I think he's talking computers, not blow up dolls.

















:D

:rofl

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: A8TOOL 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.

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: kvuo75 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.

Title: Death of a desktop
Post by: The Fugitive 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.