July 17, 2007
This happened the other day – black screen on bootup, flashing cursor.
I wondered if it could be battery, motherboard, cmos or hard drive failure.
Turned out I had a memory card reader in the USB with an older style Sony memory stick in it – removal allowed the laptop to boot.
Simple fix, for what gave me quite a worried moment!
July 3, 2007
If your PC crashes intermittently, and you’ve ran spyware….first thing to do is
- remove one memory stick and reboot and test. Then remove the other memory stick, reinsert first stick and reboot.
- remove PCI cards 1 at a time and test. Sometimes SCSI or PCI card clashes cause the PC to crash.
- re-install windows.
If this doesn’t work, then
- backup hard drive or insert new hard drive. Install windows.
If this still doesn’t work you have a major hardware problem such as motherboard or graphics card.
Swop both until you find the offending part.
