My computer has been getting stuck when it starts up on the black screen with the "_" in the top left, this started when I changed the graphics options in BIOS to switchable graphics mode, I have opened my laptop and removed the small round battery for 30 secs and then turned it on for it to just restart 3 times then return to the black screen, any help?
Don't understand you. Did it restart 3 times so booted succesfully?
What is "switchable graphics mode"?
You removed the battery so bios settings are default now. Hope defaults work on computer... most of the time it does.
You get a black screen with text cursor on top left... is it blinking? Does it appear before bios, so you cant even change bios settings?
By restart 3 times I mean it turn on, then off three times in about 5 seconds with out the screen even turning on, and the line does not blink and it does it before BIOS
The power light on the power button turn on and off 3 three times
I don't know the specs but its an acer aspire 5755G
Morzie has this machine ever booted properly? If it has have you got any data on the drive cos one option would be to do a factory default.
If you haven't got much to lose then you could try that - on power up tap the F10 key it will go to the factory recovery partition. If a straight F10 does not do that try Alt+F10. But that depends on the amount you have already done on it mate.
It has booted properly but It won't even get to BIOS to press f10
Last edited by Morzie; 08 Dec 2012 at 03:19.
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