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Black screen upon startup, wont run. [Solved/Closed]

G - Latest answer on Feb 8, 2013 09:36AM
Hello, whenever I press the Power button on my computer, it starts up with a black screen telling how it came across and error due to new hardware or such. It asks the simple things such as "Run in safe-mode, Run with Command Prompt, run with default before this occurred, or run normally.) Either one of these I press it just turns the whole screen black, the only thing that shows is the mouse. It was working fine yesterday but for some reason not today.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
Running Windows XP, and Norton Antivirus (If it's a virus or such.)
(Side note, I'm using a laptop.)
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Last time this happened to me I took out the harddrive, attached it to a USB port using one of those portable docs, then backed it up, formatted, copied back on, and everything was good again.

Hope that helps.
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i also have this problem .in my computer i have a black screen with 4option safe mode...etc my question was how to remove the virus when restarting several times what are all the cds we have run to solve the problem

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If you want to turn on safe mode, just press f8

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try rebooting it

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When i star my pc i saw three window xp install i want to remove complete two only one enough to me how can i do that?

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i have sony vaio , im putting my data , but after shutting down im losing every thing , if any 1 can help please ? ;-) thank u

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some of your o/s files corrupted or your harddrive failur or your main board (mother board) defected.

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I just downloaded linux, put it on a flash drive and wow it worked. Have fun with viruses.

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