ok so heres problem I get home from work I had my computer on so I just turned off screen I get home I trun screen on and bam black screen with flashing underscore marker ( _ ) all I see I'm like wtf so I restart computer and this time it doesn't even turn on so I unplug everything clean it out (dust bunnies ftl) and I make sure all connections are good and in place turn it back on it loads! I get my HP symbol and that stuff then it goes to the RAID screen since I have that kind of ati card I never set up :) then goes on to load windows 7....but it never does it sits there on the black screen of death with the flashing _.....i know it's not power video or memory problem....so what's wrong? Help please? Be grateful if anyone knows wtf is going on :)

You can try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

If that does not work try disconnecting devices one at a time to see if youhave a faulty component that is causing the issue (CD/DVD drive, RAM, extra hard drives, add on PCI cards and USB devices).

Also, this can be caused by a registry cleaner removing something it shouldn't, so if you are using one of those you are probably hosed unless you have a system restore point you can get back to.

If that is not the case the next thing I suspect is that you have a bad video card...I think there have been some issues with nVidea SLI causing this when the drivers are not right, especially with the 2 in 1 cards.

One thing to try before doing the above is a ctrl-alt-del when you are in the blackscreen and see if the task manager comes up. If it does you probably have a driver problem...you can get to your desktop by running explorer.exe from the task manager menu and then reboot into safe mode and update all your device drivers.

it won't let me do anything I'm getting a bioHD- 2 error when I do a system dianogstics I emailed the tech support and they say that error is caused by ur HD so it apparently got erased or something between 5pm yester and 1am today :/ I can't even get it to the black screen anymore and it won't do a system restore anymore

I would have suggested this:
Can you boot from a CD / DVD / USB key and run this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68 ... epair.html?

But it looks as your HD might be on it's way out so make sure you recover your documents before you try anything else.
Consider a Linux livecd / liveusb where you can boot into another OS, and see if you can access your data without needed it to be used to boot. If so, use another USB Key or drive to copy out your important documents -- start with the most important and work down because I've had drives fail in the middle of this.

Also, check out this link:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/For ... e928d18fdb

From the site:
There was a known issue with some bad hard drives that were manufactured by Seagate and they are being replaced for free. I have no way of knowing if your drive is one of those, that is why you need to contact HP. If you go to this page:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wel ... ml#Support

The Seagate drive issue is easy to identify...that's the issue that bit me which I detailed in another post.

Basically the drive will spin up and before it gets up to maximum RPM it will spin itself back down. If you listen closely to the drive when you power up the PC or just rest a finger on the top of the actual HDD case you can hear/feel it happening.

If that is the symptom you are experiencing post as much in a response and I will dig up the tech bulletin and support contact you need to go through so you don't have through the same song and dance I did to get it handled.

Here is a link that details the affected drive models:

http://harddiskproblem.blogspot.com/200 ... ndmax.html

Here is a link to a press article about the problem:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... 11-failing

Here is the text from the official Seagate announcement that went out to registered users last year:

"Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of Seagate hard drives from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA

Once a drive has become affected the data becomes inaccessible to users but the data is not deleted. Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured in December 2008."

This is a firmware issue...if this is indeed the problem your data is still there, but you will have to send the drive in to Seagate so they can replace the controller board so it will spin up again.

alrighty thanks all but new problem :) I got a new WD SATA 1 tera hard drive took it to geek squad to verify what I knew with no drives double verify that my hardrive was actually working butt no drives were found when booting up and going to system setup and nothing was found even optical drives so....i need a new motherboard or an sit card I think that's what's it called....

so I know alot of you guys have built comps and know prob 100x more than me I have a 64bit computer as of now with a 64bit graphics/wireless card....so I need adivce on motherboards I looked on newegg.com but I didn't know what some of it ment lol so any links or even opionons on good motherboards also this might be nub question but do motherboards come with the processors? Or would I have to go buy one of those to?

well, we would need more info. what mobo do u have now? what processor/CPU do u have? what RAM/memory do u have? what video card do u have? are ur cd drive and hard drive SATA or IDE?

::EDIT:: b4 u buy a new mobo, u could try updating/resetting ur BIOS. and u could try download Hiren's BootCD and booting off of it and running the testing tools on it, the Memory tests (memtest86+) and the other tools for testing the other parts of ur computer.

http://www.hirensbootcd.net/download.html?ver=10.4

if u dont know what ur computer specs are, and dont know how to figure them out, use the hiren's bootcd and boot into the Mini XP on it, and run the tool it has called SIW, it will give u all the infomation u need.

I have an AMD phenom X4 9550 quad core processor 5120mb ram a SATA 1 tera HDD nvidia geforce 9300ge video card the mobo I'm not sure what kind currently I do know it's a 64bit board cause I needed a 64bit PCIe wireless card anything else you need? I'll try that site tonight after work.

what kind of ram, ddr2 or ddr3? and i have no idea what u mean by a 54-bit board or a 64-bit wireless card. do u mean ur using a 64-bt OS, if that is the case, than its not ur board that is 64-bit, it is ur processor and OS.

ok it's my processor/OS that's 64bit my bad :P and DDR3 ram