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Originally Posted by xEMGx
I need any help I can get from any possible computer smart people.
So here is my situation. I have had a Toshiba N(et)B(ook)205 for about a year now. Despite having gotten a few viruses and malware, I had no problems with it. When I did have the virus, I simply restored to factory setting, and it was fine. So I have been using it the last 3 weeks and it ran beautifully. I mainly use it for music and music only, of course Internet browsing as well. So all I've been doing lately is just browsing the web and downloading a couple of albums from Mediafire. So today, I woke up hoping to be able to play some music, but what the hell? A black screen with a blinking line in the top left corner! I thought, no problem I'll just restart it. It's not that easy. I restart it, and all that happens is it says Toshiba...Loading Innovations... And in the bottom it says Setup or Boot Options. The weird thing is that it doesn't show the classic Windows logo with the loading bar...weird huh? So basically all I can do is load it up, and view Toshiba setup which is useless. Boot Options isn't helpful either. Apparently, what I have is known as the Black Screen of Death.
Has anyone had any experiences with this before?
Any fixes?
Anything helps.
I'm on my iPod Touch btw.
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Hmm... it doesn't say anything about not being able to find the operating system? Usually black screens are due to that. Sometimes it's as simple as opening up the case and re-seating the hard drive and making sure it's tightly fit into the sata or IDE connector and that no gunk has built up on any of the pins.
We know your bios isn't at fault since you get boot options. Have you tried booting into safe mode? Try doing that. If you can do that, then you'll probably need to start looking into the possibility or driver errors or malware. The fact that you contracted viruses in the first place leads me to believe that a virus is the most likely scenario.
If you can't boot into safe mode, or you need help doing that, let me know.
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