I have windows XP on about a 2 year old computer, i left it on for about 6 hours then shut it down , the next day i tried to start it up and now im getting a black screen with blinking white thing in the top left corner (I don't really know how to describe it other than its like the blinking line that shows you where you type any text), i can get the boot screen when i hit delete, but it won't load the windows after.. im not that great with computers, so any suggestions would be helpful, thanks
-matt
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Jump to PostHello Matt.
Do you have the original win XP disk. Because it sounds like one of your files may have gotten corrupt during the shutdown process. If you have the win XP disk it would be easy.
Best Regards
Tech TJ
Jump to PostFirst thing i would try is to unplug power cord ,hold power on button in for about 30 seconds.then plug it back into power outlet and try turning it on again .
if nothing happens,I would then try to reset the Bios to default settings .
those are the 2 …
Jump to Postyes, that blinking cursor geneally indicates a corrupt/dead hard disk or filesystem
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