I deal with Control based systems a lot and I've see some pretty weird stuff like this. A lot of the time when you're dealing with an SSD drive and it decides to c...@p out it will do some weird things like you say below. I had a old win2k system that wouldn't boot if I ghosted the drive on my workbench but would work fine if I ghosted on the control itself But like James said if the system won't boot off a cd by itself there's something else wrong.
________________________________ From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Flashing cursor on black screen When you try to boot from the CD drive without the HDD hooked up it boots? Have you tried swapping the RAM? ----- Original Message ----- From: N Parr <mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:28 PM Subject: RE: Flashing cursor on black screen Sounds like something's been hosed and the OS can't figure out how to get started, boot sector etc. Try ghosting the drive to another? ________________________________ From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Flashing cursor on black screen I have an issue with booting XP on an Imation 64G SSD PATA drive in an industrial type pc. When I boot the system I get a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. The system never boots or gives an error. This is what I've tried: Put the drive in a different pc as a slave, and I can access the drive no issue. Pulled everything but the video card and hd out Swapped HD cables. Tried both ATA-66/100 compatible cables and standard ATA cable. Swapped power supplies Swapped motherboard. Cleared the BIOS In BIOS, turned off Use Serial ATA Tried booting from the internal CD drive, but BIOS does not see the CD Rom drive if both the HD and CD-Rom drive are installed. Tried booting from an external USB CD drive Same result no matter what. Any suggestions? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
