If it black screens with the blinking cursor again than it is most likely a memory module. In this case leave the hard drive out and one memory stick in and try to boot to post again. Do it with each memory card until you find the culprit. Forgot to mention all the other troubleshooting I had done. I have run SpinRite in Recovery and Maintenance modes with no errors.
I have run Memtest with no errors. The hard drive is readable via external USB HDD dock so I can recover data, but the knuckleheads did not make a recovery disk - thank you very much Dell - and so they have no way to reinstall the OS. No beeps. Just a white blinking cursor on a black screen. TierneyColo is an IT service provider. Dell likely put a small partition on the disk which provides configuration for the system.
You may be able to download and set up boot disk with drive recovery tool, boot to this, and take a look at partitions setup. Update: It appears the PC was infected by the rootkit. I am attempting removal now, but googling instructions is rather fruitless. Customer is purchasing a restore disk and I, if unsuccessful in virus removal, will rescue as much data as possible. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.
Laplink Software, Inc. Neil Laplink. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Best Answer. Phil Oct 1, at UTC. No windows PE environments will load. Get stop errors with a range of error numbers. Windows 7 repair disc boots. Have tried fixboot, fixmbr, startup recovery and system restore to no avail. Fixboot and fixmbr run "successfully" but do nothing to fix the issue.
Startup recovery runs successfully but does not fix the issue. System restore will not work. It runs, but returns error 0xb7. What is up? Has anyone seen an issue like this? Can anyone help? Take the drive out and run it as a secondary on a machine with a really good AV solution. See if it remove the rootkit that way.
I have had some success with this. Then delete the boot files with this site. Worked good for me on one machine I had to do this with. BennTech is an IT service provider. I have a similar problem with an older XP machine. I'm still in the process of troubleshooting, but I think its due to a bad HDD.
I know its a long shot So while I agree with the above, if you're lucky it might only be a cable, and 28 seconds to eliminate.
Reset BIOS to defaults? You can try a google to see suggested repairs some of which have worked however these cover a wide field of efforts. Here is a video of one fix. You can try System Restore from it. If you do not have the disks your system maker will sell them cheap. Or try from Safe Mode if you can get there. Try Startup Repair -. What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?
If nothing works you can do a repair installation. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.
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