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01-16-2007, 09:35 AM
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Black Screen Of Death
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This is my first time posting here so be patient with me. If this is the wrong forum I apologize. I have a HP desk top that would boot up but had virus warnings on. It had Norton AV but had not been updated for some time. Not my computer. The computer was so locked up that I could not do anything with it. But Windows did load. So I pulled the hd out and slaved it to a good computer and ran antivirus software on it. 23 infections. After running the AV software I put the hard drive back in the computer and I now I get the HP screen, then the screen goes black with a flashing cursor in the top left of the screen. I then put the HP hard drive in the good computer as a master and it booted Windows, it just asked to activate Windows. So then I put the non infected hd in the HP and same black screen. I can get to BIOS and reset it by pulling the battery for about 45 min. Same black screen. What could have happened from just cleaning the virus out of the hd that would make it go dead? I tried resetting the BIOS, changing the power supply, reseating the cables. I am lost as to what could have happened. Any information would greatly be appreciated. Tim |
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01-16-2007, 10:21 AM
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Time to reinstall Windows. It's not a dead hard drive, it's just an eaten up Windows installation.
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01-16-2007, 10:32 AM
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When you put the HD from the good computer in the machine that wasn't working does bios see the HD ? let bios find it...
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01-16-2007, 04:05 PM
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Thank you for your help.
I did not check the BIOS of the computer that does not work to see if it detected the hard drive of the computer that does work. I will check that. The computer that does work would boot up with the hard drive from the computer that does not work. Would I still need to reinstall windows? Actually the computer did not come with a recovery disc. I think it is on a partition of the hard drive. I did find out that they would have to press F10 repeatedly to get the computer to boot up. I think I read somewhere that F10 was the recovery partition. Not sure why that would boot the computer unless they reinstalled windows every time they used the computer. Thanks again for your help. Tim |
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01-17-2007, 02:37 AM
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