System just gives cursor at top left corner of screen?

princejim · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:03

My system has been working for a few months, but when I switch it on it go's through initalisation detecting ram drives ect, then I just get a flashing cursor at the top left hand side of the screen, and that all. If I try to reinstall windows it says checking system hardware and just freezes. This is my daughters computer not the one shown. Any help would be appriciated.

princejim · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:37

Have tried a new graphics card but still stuck with cursor?? Getting desparate.

Carter · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:42

The only time I've seen this was on my socket 754 system, clearing the bios [resetting CMOS] fixed it.

princejim · 9 Jan 2007 at 17:39

Thanks carter, tried that and it just ask for me to press F1 for bios and F2 to set defaults, when I press F2 I get a cursor top line, then the cursor goes one line down and just sits there??

g00dsh0t · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:33

normally the flashing curser on left is your system detecting your cd/dvd drive so it can ask you if you want to boot from cd.