Thread: Computer not booting up

Okay so i was on skype and also trying to reformat my external harddrive and as soon as the application popped up, it froze my computer i didn't get to do anything, as to formatting to anything, so i manually pushed the button in the front to turn it off, i turn it back on again and start up.. showing that im using an emachine telling me Delete=setup and all that jazz.. and then when it goes off that screen it goes straight to a black screen.. with a underscore line on the top left corner and it stays there forever. I left the computer one for since 7pm last night till which is now 12:54PM, the next day. I thought that it was doing some defragmenting or something like that to the computer but there isn't any progress bar or anything just that underscore with a black screen.


Help!

Shut it down the reboot the system then start pressing F8 on keyboard to get system menu, use option "last known configuration" to start. If that doesnt work, redo these steps and then choose "safe mode" and try a system restore

You will probably not get to the safe mode boot. You either have a corrupted system file or your MBR (Master Boot Record) is toasted.
Either way, it can be fixed, either through the recovery console or via a REPAIR install, depending on what is wrong and what OS you're using.
I am a computer tech and this is right up my alley, so let me know if you want any help with this.

unplug your external hdd

Originally Posted by optantic

unplug your external hdd

that's what I thought too.


but to the guy with the problem to make sure the problem is because of your computer unplug everything but screen mouse and keyboard and see if it boots if it doesn't set the boot order to disk get a linux cd and see if you can get any files back.

i try to boot up the original OS, like its supposed to and it goes to the same screen, i did reboot, and all of that ill try the F8 method brb.

Update: F8 all that did was just speed it up to the black screen.. again ill post pics give me a few

Adding pics now


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This is the black screen im talking about..

is there any noise from the computer?

yes, as soon as i boot up the computer it beeps once, and Num lock caps lock and Scroll lock flash green once, and then back to black screen.

Originally Posted by patienceofkaori

yes, as soon as i boot up the computer it beeps once, and Num lock caps lock and Scroll lock flash green once, and then back to black screen.

might be a ram issue.
this happened to me. :(