Computer Troubles

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Misiek

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This time its not me, lol... Its a good friend.

The story goes... We had a LAN party this weekend over at another friends house. Everything was good and we had a load of fun. There were no computer problems. In the morning we packed up and went home. He took his stuff and didn't hook it up till just tonight for some reason so it was sitting around for over 1.5 days. Anyway when he boots the computer doesn't post any BIOS or anything. It immediately goes to a black screen with a movable mouse cursor on it. Thats it. Nothing else happens.

Well... IDFK lol...

EDIT: When it boots the monitor stays on standby for like 30 seconds and then powers on to a black screen with a mouse cursor.
 
What the fuck???

A moveable MOUSE CURSOR?!

Like, is it in high res and does it look like the windows cursor? The computer should boot to textmode first no matter what lmfao... wtf.

I've never seen anything remotely like this before...
 
I had this happen but mine made it past the bios; I had to insert the install disk and repair and restore. I just never seen the cursor before the bios, but hey it seems like we always find new problems with computers; google it and see what you can find.
 
Some of the new bios have mouse input, strange I know.
Gateway comes to mind. Or dell not sure which it was.
 
Misiek yes I was reffering to the CMOS battery. Sounds similar to another situation I had to deal with on another machine. The mouse still functioning is very odd though. Sounds like corrupted windows files to be honest. Can you get to BIOS at all? Maybe boot from disk?
 
The computer was fixed. I reseated RAM and PCI cards and that didn't fix shit lol. I took out the sound card and second video card it booted just fine. I put back the SLi with two video cards and it ran just fine. I added the sound card and it didn't run. Funny thing is that it was still putting out sound because while the monitor was on standby you can hear the usual Windows Booting noises.
 
Sound Blasters known for issues? Dumb question actually because I had 3 in the last couple years and all crapped out on me.

Yes it was a Sound Blaster lol.
 
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