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May 29, 2010 at 02:40 AM
evilc72

why is the character ” ? ” on my start up screen?

by evilc72 . Updated 16 years, 1 month ago

I have an ancient compaq 5wv270.
Actually, nothing is original on/in it. Not even the box or the mb. But the mb is the manufactures replacement. So we’ll have to call it that, for a lack of anything better to call it.

I have recently been getting the character ? in the middle of my start up screen about 2/3 of the way over to the right on the monitor.

When I say the start up screen, I mean the black screen from bios.

Any idea why?

It is kind of bugging me.

Thank you!

P.S. the character that is making an appearence on my monitor is not a question mark “?” as it shows here. For some reason this aplication is changing it. The character is an ” a ” with a dash over it that goes northeast, providing north is up.

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