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fudgee
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 11:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi everybody i have a acer aspire 5100 and it is equipted with vista and when i start up my computer the screen turns black with a flashing white curser in the upper left hand corner. Can anybody give me any insight on how to get rid of that?
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abuzar1
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 13:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What does the cursor look like? I had an Acer and whenever I had problems I would unplug it and plug it back in after a min and it would work fine. You could try that.
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fudgee
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 14:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
its a small white curser, it is a laptop and i tried unpluging it i even took the battery out for about 20 minutes
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GrandpaBW
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 14:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by fudgee:
 its a small white curser, it is a laptop and i tried unpluging it i even took the battery out for about 20 minutes
Try to boot in Safe Mode.
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fudgee
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 14:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
exactly how would i boot in safe mode, i press f2 and it brings me to the bios setup but theres nothing there about safe mode just the boot priority order
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fudgee
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 15:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i forgot to say that tring to press f8 doesnt work onl f2
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ddp
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 15:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sounds like either vista is messed up or your hd has problems. does the bios see the hd?
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fudgee
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 15:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
im pretty sure under info and boot it list the hard drive
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