Where to start.. I've been trying to figure this problem out for the past week, but to no avail. I feel that I've exhausted all options. The issue I'm having didn't stem from a hardware or software change; it came about after a very routine restart. Here's what happened-
1) Computer started up and brought up the BIOS screen- Nothing strange there.
2) It's been two minutes and the BIOS screen is still up.. this has never happened before.
3) The BIOS screen goes away, only to be replaced by a black screen with a single, blinking cursor in the top left-hand corner.
4) The hard drive light is solid, but it doesn't sound like the hard drive is doing any heavy searching.
5) Two hours later and I'm still stuck at a black screen. The hard drive light is off, but that's all that's changed.
I've tried removing the battery and putting it back in, but that didn't fix anything. I tried taking out the RAM modules to test if the motherboard was fried- I got an error code, so I figure the motherboard is fine. I tried using the Win7 Recovery Console, but the Startup Repair returns this error-
Root cause found:
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No OS files found on disk.
Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x3bc3
Time take = 2246 ms
Well, I know for a fact there's an OS on the disk, I can see it. Regardless, the Recovery Console doesn't agree. I've tried all methods of manual repair as well. At least, every solution I could find on these forums and every other forum on the internet. Nothing has worked. By the way, I don't know if this is important or not, but there's another strange occurrence that I can't explain- everything takes forever to start. The BIOS screen stays up too long, the Windows 7 CD takes about 10 minutes to start up, and everything else is slow.
I'm out of ideas here folks. I will provide any information you need, just ask. I'd prefer to fix this without having to reformat my HD, but that's what it's coming down to. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
1) Computer started up and brought up the BIOS screen- Nothing strange there.
2) It's been two minutes and the BIOS screen is still up.. this has never happened before.
3) The BIOS screen goes away, only to be replaced by a black screen with a single, blinking cursor in the top left-hand corner.
4) The hard drive light is solid, but it doesn't sound like the hard drive is doing any heavy searching.
5) Two hours later and I'm still stuck at a black screen. The hard drive light is off, but that's all that's changed.
I've tried removing the battery and putting it back in, but that didn't fix anything. I tried taking out the RAM modules to test if the motherboard was fried- I got an error code, so I figure the motherboard is fine. I tried using the Win7 Recovery Console, but the Startup Repair returns this error-
Root cause found:
-----------------------
No OS files found on disk.
Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x3bc3
Time take = 2246 ms
Well, I know for a fact there's an OS on the disk, I can see it. Regardless, the Recovery Console doesn't agree. I've tried all methods of manual repair as well. At least, every solution I could find on these forums and every other forum on the internet. Nothing has worked. By the way, I don't know if this is important or not, but there's another strange occurrence that I can't explain- everything takes forever to start. The BIOS screen stays up too long, the Windows 7 CD takes about 10 minutes to start up, and everything else is slow.
I'm out of ideas here folks. I will provide any information you need, just ask. I'd prefer to fix this without having to reformat my HD, but that's what it's coming down to. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
