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    Feb 11, 2010, 02:09 PM
    When powered on, lap top has a black screen with white blinking cursor
    My daughter has a Gateway 450 RGH laptop with Windows XP home edition on it; today when she went to log in it went straight to a black screen with a while blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner. When I rebooted I did get the screen where you can do F10 or F2 and it would allow me to go to either; however, when I exit out, it goes back to the black screen and white blinking cursor in upper left-hand corner. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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    Mar 2, 2010, 01:59 PM

    Try booting from the XP install disk and running repair
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