old comp wont start windows....black screen upon boot

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Re: old comp wont start windows....black screen upon boot

 
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Jan 8th, 2009
has it done a check disk right after it show the windows start up screen? I think it would be that your hard drive is losing sectors. Also you have anything magnetic near your tower? I dropped a magnetized screw on top of my hard drive and that gave me the black screen with blinking cursor
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