Hi all,
Cousin's computer has decided to act up and I've never dealt with this before. His computer went to sleep while he was installing something and he didn't know how to bring it out of sleep so he just turned it off.
Attempts to turn it back on today and it won't boot. Bios loads and he can get into the bios and modify the settings to select what to boot from first (boot priority) but after that... it's just a black screen with blinking underscore (cursor?).
CD first, still same.
HD first, still same.
Not sure what happened there.. shouldn't be due to an overclock... is it because he turned it off when it was in sleep mode? So the computer has no idea what to do in this situation? Boot manager corrupted?
Anyone know of any tried and sure methods to fix this? I've tried googling it but most of the "responses" just says to read something else that doesn't have an actual answer. I saw something about fixboot but don't really understand that...
Not sure what to do if I can't boot from disc or into safe mode...
Someone able to take the time to walk me through this? Sorry and thanks in advance!
Cousin's computer has decided to act up and I've never dealt with this before. His computer went to sleep while he was installing something and he didn't know how to bring it out of sleep so he just turned it off.
Attempts to turn it back on today and it won't boot. Bios loads and he can get into the bios and modify the settings to select what to boot from first (boot priority) but after that... it's just a black screen with blinking underscore (cursor?).
CD first, still same.
HD first, still same.
Not sure what happened there.. shouldn't be due to an overclock... is it because he turned it off when it was in sleep mode? So the computer has no idea what to do in this situation? Boot manager corrupted?
Anyone know of any tried and sure methods to fix this? I've tried googling it but most of the "responses" just says to read something else that doesn't have an actual answer. I saw something about fixboot but don't really understand that...
Not sure what to do if I can't boot from disc or into safe mode...
Someone able to take the time to walk me through this? Sorry and thanks in advance!