Dell Dimension 8400 boots to flashing cursor

[timbrehm]

It will get past the Dell screen, but stops with a blank screen and flashing cursor in upper left corner. Will not go into boot menu and will say it's going into setup, but does not. Only flashing cursor. Any ideas??

 

[dragonsprayer]

flash the cmos

reset the bios

pull 1 ram stick rotate ram sticks and ram slots

if you got a raid you sata is ide not raid

 

[montyuk]

sounds like a problem with your windows installation,

you could try booting from the windows cd and trying a repair.