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Acer Aspire 5520G wont boot/show post.
I have Acer Aspire 5520G laptop. I turned it down yesterday and today when I wanted to turn it on it wont boot up. When I press power button it lights up ( green) there is some blinking of HDD led ...
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Black screen after disabling Intel graphics on ASUS laptop
My ASUS A53SV laptop has an onboard Intel GMA graphics and also nVidia GeForce 540N. I am using Windows 7 Pro. I thought that the GeForce was not being used, so I went to Device Manager and disabled ...
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Win7 becomes unstable after waking from sleep and trying to access esata drive
I have the following problem:
I have a HTPC at home which is only used for its Mediacenter but since recently has an esata storage enclosure to record all its data to. The esata enclosure has a ...
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windows vista boots black screen with white cursor
i turned on my laptop this morning it shows me loading windows but after that before any login screen the screen just goes black and has a white cursor on it. the computer will not let me try to boot ...
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Laptop goes dead after being turned on for five minutes
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows XP on it. The laptop turns on okay, but after five minutes the screen goes dead but some windows are still viewable. It does the same in safe mode and if ...
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How do I stop mapped network drives which aren't available preventing Windows 7 64-bit booting past KSOD?
I have a QNAP server on my home network which I've mapped a few folders in Windows-7x64 using NFS. This works perfectly except for when I switch the server off (or disconnect it from the network). ...
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HP Pavilion dv6 screen goes black after Windows loads, but not in safe mode
When I boot the laptop normally, it goes through POST, and I can see the "Starting Windows" screen with the Windows logo. However, right before I get to the Windows logon, the screen goes black. In ...
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Computer displays only a black screen; task manager not available
I use a Dell mini-VGA cable, and I believe I slept with it connected in the middle of the night. I shut down my laptop by holding down the power button.
Now, when Windows starts up, it goes to the ...
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Windows 7 doesn't boot further than a blank screen with only a mouse cursor [closed]
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How do I make Windows 7 boot further than a blank screen with only a mouse cursor?
I am doing a clean install, having tried from both USB and DVD with two different ...
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Black screen without cursor after loading bar and before the logo in Vista
Okay. Today Windows installed an update automatically. Please note that I have them turned off, and my friends also say that it still does install updates even if they are turned off, so I am more ...
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Acer Aspire runs slow, black screens after logging in
I have and Acer Aspire laptop that's about 3-4 months old that is now running super slow.
I takes five minutes to get to the login page and after logging in, it freezes right after saying welcome.
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On windows 7 64bit, the computer freezes and the screen turns black when I play videos fullscreen
I have a weird problem on my desktop computer : it seems that playing videos in full screen (with VLC or iTunes) freezes the computer after a few minutes. Maximizing vlc does not. The weird thing is ...
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Computer always has a black screen
My computed apparently overheated Thursday night and has yet to begin working again.
At first, I was able to start it up as usual until it prompted me for system repair, which I did. It managed to ...
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How to recover Windows Vista from blackscreen (mouse and keyboard is working)?
I am a computer geek which I use all the resources of the computer, and i have many opened and non-saved documents (especially notepad files that are not saved).
Here is the situation: I use ...
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Windows 7 hangs on black screen for a while after log in
I get the welcome screen.
I click on my user and get the "logging on" screen.
After that all I get is a black screen with a mouse cursor.
I can't even start task manager. No ctrl+alt+del or ...
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Windows 7 random black screen when idle
Occasionally, when I'm away from my computer for about 5 minutes, the computer screen will go black and all USB devices (keyboard/mouse) will lose power. Attempting to move the mouse or pressing keys ...
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Black screen on Windows 7 right after opening Google Sketchup or Minecraft
I get a black screen on Windows 7 right after opening Google Sketchup or Minecraft. I presume there are other applications that cause this too - but I have not tried to open them.
The window ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 boots to mouse
Now I know that there is an update for Vista and 7 that causes this problem, but I have tried most of the tips and tricks to fix it on Server 2008 R2 Standard, but it still boots to a black screen ...
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Nvidia driver on Windows 7 causing black screen
I have just installed Windows 7 on a desktop machine and for the first time ever have had a really tough time doing so, its normally a nice smooth install. This time I found that the monitor would ...
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Black out screen in Windows XP
When i work on my windows machine, am getting a black screen in regular intervals.
What should I do? Why is this happening?
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Windows 7 black screen after logon for about a minute
Apologies if this has already been asked/answered. I googled and only seem to be able to find posts about people having the problem where the screen stays black indefinitely. Mine just goes black ...
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Wii on PC monitor - occasionally blacks out
I asked this question on the Gaming Stack Exchange site, but it was suggested that I may be better off asking here. Since noone moved the question, I'm posting it here too in the hopes that someone ...
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Windows 7 black screen
When I startup the computer and I insert my credentials, press login, the Welcome screen appears and after that I get the black screen. I have to wait about 10 minutes and then I have to press a ...
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Macbook Pro won't turn on
The macbook pro (just over a year old, so just out of warranty) won't turn on. The battery is full, and the power cord lights up with an orange light. Pressing the power button does nothing, but if ...
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Acer 3810T Black Screen of Death - Just a dead LCD backlight, way to fix?
I have an Acer Aspire 3810T and I recently encountered the black screen of death. I've found articles suggesting that this could be a bug in the BIOS and that if I flash the BIOS it could fix it, but ...
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Radeon 4850 + Windows 7 64bit causing Blackouts/reboots while playing games
Ever since I upgraded to windows 7 I can seem to play any games with my PC rebooting either straight away or after a few minutes of gaming, after reboot I get bios beeps for gfx card failure. The same ...
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Need help in analyzing memory dump
My computer running Windows 7 x64 crushes time to time. Could you please advise tool which could help with analyzing memory dump or point out possible reason and further troubleshooting steps?
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Dead MSI 8800 GTS 640MB?
My PC appears to boot fine, I can hear it get to Windows but I can't see anything on the screen. The screen is completely blank/black... no POST/BIOS/Windows etc. The problem only happens when my 8800 ...
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Why does my Mac always crash when I enable `ask for password after screensaver ended`?
I have enabled these two things:
Placing the mouse-pointer in the bottom-left corner of any display makes the screensaver appear
After the screensaver or stand-by has ended, ask for password
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Getting a black laptop screen
I get a black screen when I boot my laptop.
The laptop was in sleep mode initially, so when I pressed the power button, it looked as if it woke up from sleep mode, but the screen was blank. So, I ...
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PC don't start the and no beeps from BIOS on power on
A friend just brought me hi's PC because it doesn't start.
I have no bios beeps, no screen activation. The monitor stays blank and nothing is on the display.
Does anyone knows how can we fix this? ...
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Black Screen when Computer Boots
I'm having a serious problem with my computer; I think I've narrowed it down to the motherboard, but I'd like a second opinion before I spend the money. I have no idea what's wrong.
Before I moved ...
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Vista Black Screen of Death (KSOD)
I have a Vista system exhibiting the black screen of death. After boot, I receive a black screen with a white cursor that moves but no other activity. Here are the things I've done already to ...
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Windows 7 Black screen of death after RAM upgrade
A co-worker of mine upgraded his pc to 4 gigs of ram from 2.
After installing the new RAM his computer boots ok, he gets to the login screen, logs in fine, and then his computer screen goes black ...
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Windows 7 x64 random black screen of death (not at start up!)
I have a relatively new machine (November 2009) with Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.
Since beginning of January, I experience more and more frequent black screen of death. I could not associate to any ...
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Windows 7 Black screen of death
My two week old computer went down early this afternoon. I've been working all day to fix it with no luck, I'd really appreciate any help or advice that you can offer.
I'll also mention that I am ...
