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Black screen with white cursor and nothing else

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by stephen_raj

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After rebooting my computer all i see is a black screen with white cursor and nothing else?! - tried safe mode options and changed the boot sequence to make sure HDD is the first option/still no go.. tried doing repair installation didn't work either. tried diagnostics to check the harddrive - while running the diagnostics the computer turned itself off completely.. i donot what to do from here.. can someone help me out???

Thanks for your time,
Stephen D.

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by santeewelding

Onto your job role as Technical/PC Support, if that is, indeed, what you hold yourself out to be, and charge others money for.

Is that what you do? Or, are you a lost soul in the wilderness presenting yourself inappropriately for other than what you are?

Get honest about it -- and tell more.

by ron k.

It sounds like you were in there. What did you do in Safe Mode?
I'd enter Start|Run type msconfig and disable all Startup items. If it boots, then one of your Startup items is funky. Enable four or five at a time, rebooting each time, to begin narrowing it down.

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