WHen I start my laptop up it goes through bios fine then It just stops at a black screen with flashing underscore in top left, I tried to load in safe mode and everything but it does same thing after bios, I cant even load setup. I just got the laptop about 1 month ago so its pretty new I run windows vista.
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Jump to Postsounds like harddrive failure, or bios cannot detect the harddrive for whatever reason
bios itself is a program run by the motherboard, which controls the rest of the computer's hardware. The next thing to be booted after bios is the harddrive, which stores the operating system.
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