Computing.Net > Forums > General Hardware > Blank screen with cursor

Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.

Blank screen with cursor

Reply to Message Icon

Name: california roll
Date: January 9, 2003 at 19:33:18 Pacific
OS: win98se
CPU/Ram: amd duron 1.3ghz 112mb of
Comment:

I have an M810 mother board and every time I try to run Win98se setup from DOS, it gets to the point of copying needed files to start setup and goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the monitor. I've tried putting windows on the hard drive in another computer and then transferring the hard drive to my computer, I've tried clearing CMOS,I changed monitors, I tried a different windows install disk, I made sure everything was plugged in where and how it is supposed to be and whether I'm trying to boot into windows or windows setup it nearly always gives me that blank screen with the cursor. Although, two out of about twenty times it actually did boot into windows. If you can solve this annoying problem, life would be better. Thanks.



Sponsored Link
Ads by Google

Response Number 1
Name: wawadave
Date: January 9, 2003 at 20:52:08 Pacific
Reply:

hows the power supply? how big is it?
try a diferant stick or ram.
when it dose boot what temp is it running at?
try a new bootdisk on new floppy d/l one from www.bootdisk.com.
put it in drive and rethan at the a:system c: click enter
after it says system tranferd remove floppy and reboot.


0

Response Number 2
Name: wawadave
Date: January 9, 2003 at 20:54:55 Pacific
Reply:

hello that should be a:sys c:


0

Response Number 3
Name: ben rogers
Date: January 10, 2003 at 06:40:59 Pacific
Reply:

Sounds very much like a weak PSU. Althouth, your board will need to be at least a revision 7.0A to run that morgan duron chip. Check what revision it is, there should be a sticker at the end of the bottom PCI slot.


0

Sponsored Link
Ads by Google
Reply to Message Icon

Related Posts

See More







Post Locked

This post is quite old and has been locked from receiving new replies. Please create a new posting instead.


Go to General Hardware Forum Home


Sponsored links

Ads by Google


Results for: Blank screen with cursor

Blank screen with new Gforce4 www.computing.net/answers/hardware/blank-screen-with-new-gforce4/7796.html

Boot with blank screen www.computing.net/answers/hardware/boot-with-blank-screen/22620.html

Blank screen with PCI-E 7800GT www.computing.net/answers/hardware/blank-screen-with-pcie-7800gt/38705.html