Help!!! Black screen only on laptop

rhino415

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Cant get my mom's laptop to work. You can power it up and log on....then poof the black screen hits and you cant do anything. Is there anything I can do to remedy this? Thanks in advance.
 
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You need to get into your boot menu. Like i said each laptop is different try... (f10, Delete, Insert etc) It should say onscreen when you first boot up.

morgilroka

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Is there a blinking "underscore" cursor in the top left of the screen? I'm assuming you can boot into the bootmgr (f10? depends on laptop) Run a harddrive disk check.

I recently had this issue and it ended up being a blow HDD.
 

rhino415

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Hi I tried getting to safe mode with shift F8 and that doesnt work. Thanks for replying.