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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: author on October 03, 2011, 06:53:51 PM

Title: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: author on October 03, 2011, 06:53:51 PM

I own an ASUS Eee 1018B: OS 7 Starter.

After turning on the computer I only get a black screen with a flashing underscore at the top left. Help!

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: Transfusion on October 03, 2011, 08:10:16 PM

Is it possible to access the recovery partition at boot with the F9 key?

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: patio on October 03, 2011, 08:24:10 PM

What happened prior to this ? ?

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: author on October 03, 2011, 09:22:02 PM

Quote from: patio on October 03, 2011, 08:24:10 PM

What happened prior to this ? ?

Absolutely nothing happened prior. The screen just appeared black one day. It never has been dropped or anything. I take good care of my computers.

I tried the F9 at boot up, nothing.

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: author on October 04, 2011, 08:40:03 PM

A hopeless issue?

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: Transfusion on October 04, 2011, 08:44:38 PM

Sorry for the delay.
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=58568 (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=58568)
This may help.
Can you boot to USB?

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: techravi on October 05, 2011, 09:35:59 PM

normally black screen occur in hardware failure ( or ) non-supportive hardware

have you recently installed any new hardware ? let me know

and do one thing remove all usb connectors from motherboard

take out the BIOS battery ( cr2032 mostly )

and place it again so the bios will be reset

i hope it helps

Title: Re: Black Screen At Boot-Up...
Post by: Ademil4vic on October 06, 2011, 03:15:47 AM

First of all check the brightness(back light) by hold the Fn key and continuosly press the up arrow key to increase d light,if nothing happened,try connect it to external monitor(if its laptop) and if the monitor dispayed properly change the screen.