Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
which is foreign to him.
How can he restart Windows?
Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
details.
He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
Bill

"FlaBill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:b480be52-5c69-447f-ba4e-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
> F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
> which is foreign to him.
> How can he restart Windows?
> Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
> details.
> He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
> Bill

The blinking cursor often indicates that the system partition on
the hard disk is not marked active. Without suitable tool he would
not be able to fix this problem. Ask him to take the machine to
a computer repair shop.

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>which is foreign to him.
>How can he restart Windows?
>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>details.
>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>Bill
Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
starts to load. In other words...

Ask elsewhere

"Navigator" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>>which is foreign to him.
>>How can he restart Windows?
>>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>>details.
>>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>>Bill
> Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
> starts to load. In other words...
>
> Ask elsewhere
>

I can't find any sites named "elsewhere" !!

Galen Somerville wrote:

> "Navigator" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:09 -0700 (PDT), FlaBill <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
>>>F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
>>>which is foreign to him.
>>>How can he restart Windows?
>>>Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
>>>details.
>>>He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
>>>Bill
>>
>>Asking here is useless. This problem is occurring LONG before the OS
>>starts to load. In other words...
>>
>>Ask elsewhere
>>
>
>
> I can't find any sites named "elsewhere" !!
>
>

Since you say it is HP computer, HP site is the elsewhere place. Start
at link below.

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

I'm working with a similar problem, and have asked for help earlier today. My
question is how do you tell if a partition is activated? I've used the
"Diskpart" tool in Vista, and see that the O/S is booting off the "Recovery"
drive rather than the "C" drive. So, how do I change that? Thanks Sandy
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IT Services Help Center


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "FlaBill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:b480be52-5c69-447f-ba4e-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Friend's pc shows only black screen and a blinking cursor. He pushed
> > F2 and F12 only to get the Phoenix bios screen asking for a password
> > which is foreign to him.
> > How can he restart Windows?
> > Running Pentium based HP about 2 years old, don't have explicit
> > details.
> > He is in another city and doesn't have access to a Windows disk.
> > Bill
>
> The blinking cursor often indicates that the system partition on
> the hard disk is not marked active. Without suitable tool he would
> not be able to fix this problem. Ask him to take the machine to
> a computer repair shop.
>
>
>