Hey guys,

I request the services of the sydlexia computer buffs! I got a new computer about a year ago and it hasn't really had any problems up until now.

Basically when i load the computer a black screen comes up and on that black screen at the very top left is one little white line which keeps flashing.

I noticed this other day when i turned my computer on and left to do something the other day and came back and it was still flashing.

Basically the computer wasn't loading.

However when i unplugged it, fiddled with the cables it worked again. However this morning it did it again and was just hanging at the flashing line bit.

I have no idea why it's doing this. I've changed my monitor over and it still does it. Any ideas how i can stop it doing this? It's weird that it works sometimes and doesn't work at others.

The only thing i've really changed software wise which is relevant to the computer is i upgraded to windows 7 sp1 but i doubt that it would have done this.

Any ideas? Basically when it does it i have to turn it off on the wall and back on.

I'm gonna test it again here.

Cheers.

EDIT: There has been no errors messages, no crashes, no nothing.

Maybe i am not giving it enough time to load up but it never used to do it.

EDIT2: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/10/15/fix-windows-7-does-not-start-or-fails-to-boot-after-force-shutdown/

I think this may have something to do with it. When i shutdown i don't close everything and it gives me an option to force shutdown. I don't know if that's relevant or not.

Right this is the sequence of events.

I press power on theres a wait of about 1 second before it goes on.

Then a blue hp screen similar to this appears:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportDocument/bph05701/c02120758.jpg&imgrefurl=http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp%3Flang%3Dde%26cc%3Dde%26taskId%3D110%26prodSeriesId%3D3432821%26prodTypeId%3D12454%26prodSeriesId%3D3432821%26objectID%3Dbph05701&usg=__fI1PvkHFtZCDqHRy8l3PzBF0woc=&h=356&w=510&sz=22&hl=en&start=0&sig2=KDXOmBUrm9kWsmiIQBXs0w&zoom=1&tbnid=QOKt5PTnAzwb3M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=211&ei=fop6TdKPJsKs8AO-zsmzBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhp%2Bstart%2Bup%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D808%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=420&oei=fop6TdKPJsKs8AO-zsmzBA&page=1&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=172&ty=86

Then the line thing starts.

It's totally black and on the corner of the screen is this:

-

a single one which flashes and when it actually loads the line moves one space to the right and then this screen appears:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://techgenie.com/wp-content/uploads/Start-Up-Issues-in-Windows-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://techgenie.com/latest/how-to-trouble-shoot-start-up-issues-in-windows-7/&usg=__rmwUfpthK9f0qCbdxNBs4-jFkKw=&h=480&w=640&sz=10&hl=en&start=0&sig2=Rm4NDc9gJsrRYKyUw8PcKA&zoom=1&tbnid=kLCPuO3sX32smM:&tbnh=159&tbnw=188&ei=_4p6Tf-IPMWt8gOAvdC2BA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwindows%2B7%2Bstart%2Bup%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D808%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=585&oei=_4p6Tf-IPMWt8gOAvdC2BA&page=1&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=119&ty=82

Then line bit lasts about 15 seconds.

I don't know if i am just worried over nothing or not.

EDIT: The computer makes the normal computer noises, there is a slight whir in the disc drive though - at least i think it is.

I know that the disc drive is related to boot up somehow but i haven't really had problems with it. Sometimes it doesn't read discs well but that's about it.

GPFontaine wrote:

If it is booting and not showing everything you are used to, I would say that the POST process is simply not showing it or your hardware is starting to have trouble. In the HP BIOS is there an option to hide/show the loading/post process?

Well i looked at your link. Stuff like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:POST2.jpg

has never came up on the screen ever. It just skips straight to the windows loading sign. i.e. there has never been any numbers or information about my hardware ever shown on the screen.

I actually shutdown earlier and rebooted. The line thing wasn't there.

EDIT: To answer your question i have no idea. I'll search about.

Hacker wrote:

Could be a failing hard drive... Or motherboard... Or windows 7 is fucked. (most likely) Look in the BIOS and see if you can find the option to enable it to show the POST screen. also, easy way to tell if the motherboard is dying is to look at the capacitors. If they're bulging then it's starting to die. If not then yay (interesting side story. I had a guy come into the place I intern and when I looked at his computer he had been using for the past 9 years one capacitor was burst, all of the other were bulging and his computer was STILL running. the processor was just getting hardly any electricity)

Well i don't want to particularly be opening my computer up with me that will probably lead to more problems.

Well i've had this computer for less than one year. I got it probably about May last year. Not to question your computer competence but when i buy a computer for £800/$1300 i don't expect the components to crap out on me lol.

Anyway that aside i found how to get the POST screen up in the boot menu. My computer has been working fine since i posted this *sods law i guess*.

What should i be looking for in the POST menu? Like does the text go red or something when somethings up?

The screen is literally up for like 2 seconds, it's not much study time!

FNJ wrote:

You gotta toggle the galvatron reaction core, then after that you must go into the dik.4 files and transverse the alternator by changing the settings on the ultimate nullifier. after you do that go into the googlebot folder, turn on buffer underrun protection (to stop a baroque cancel) and get the alpha countering settings. open that in notepad, scroll down about three fourths of the way, and look for a part that says something about a K.I.L.R.O.Y. protocol. You might have to double check this in double zeta settings. see if that's set to RX-78 or not, and copy paste that here. After that I'll tell you what you should do to get it working. Also, make sure your speakers are set to "stereo".

It's all greek to me.

Right i haven't made this clear.

The post screen, has never ever ever ever ever appeared on start up. Since i bought this computer it has never shown it. It only shows it now because i turned it on. Before that it was always disabled. -i'm talking about the screen with computer information. It has never shown. On my last computer XP which i owned for 6 years it was never shown either.

Also i am having no problems now. It's been two days my computer has been put on and off literally about 8 times in that period and it has been fine.

Also i don't have a windows disc because they didn't give me one. I'm pretty sure when i bought this i had to create a restore point.

Hacker wrote:

The post screen never comes up unless you tell it to show it. What comes up instead is usually the BIOS manufacturer or the computer manufacturers logo. Both are signs that the computer is POSTing. think of the logo as a mask to hide the POST details. And what version of windows 7 are you running? Often times you can find the ISO online and just use the key on your computer

In that case then.

The manufacturers logo has always come up. I posted the image up there of what comes up.

The manufacturers logo came up, then a black screen then the windows is loading.

The black screen was where it was taking ages to load.

To be honest i don't think there is really anything seriously wrong. I only asked originally because i was curious but the problem has went away.

That black screen isn't even coming up anymore.