It was the drive. I imaged the drive in another system and put a standard IDE drive in and then the system would boot. Thx for your help. B
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote: > I deal with Control based systems a lot and I've see some pretty weird > stuff like this. A lot of the time when you're dealing with an SSD > drive and it decides to c...@p out it will do some weird things like you say > below. I had a old win2k system that wouldn't boot if I ghosted the drive > on my workbench but would work fine if I ghosted on the control itself But > like James said if the system won't boot off a cd by itself there's > something else wrong. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:00 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Flashing cursor on black screen > > When you try to boot from the CD drive without the HDD hooked up it > boots? Have you tried swapping the RAM? > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> > *To:* NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:28 PM > *Subject:* RE: Flashing cursor on black screen > > Sounds like something's been hosed and the OS can't figure out how to get > started, boot sector etc. Try ghosting the drive to another? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:22 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Flashing cursor on black screen > > I have an issue with booting XP on an Imation 64G SSD PATA drive in an > industrial type pc. > > When I boot the system I get a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of > the screen. > The system never boots or gives an error. > > This is what I've tried: > Put the drive in a different pc as a slave, and I can access the drive no > issue. > Pulled everything but the video card and hd out > Swapped HD cables. Tried both ATA-66/100 compatible cables and standard ATA > cable. > Swapped power supplies > Swapped motherboard. > Cleared the BIOS > In BIOS, turned off Use Serial ATA > Tried booting from the internal CD drive, but BIOS does not see the CD Rom > drive if both the HD and CD-Rom drive are installed. > Tried booting from an external USB CD drive > Same result no matter what. > Any suggestions? > TIA > B > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
