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Black Screen with White Dots and Rotating White Cursor
Performed BIOS update from A04, when computer needed to reboot, it also said it was performing updates, which I assumed were window updates. I left the computer overnight and when I returned the screen was black with white dots being drawn on screen by a blinking rotating cursor as if it is performing some update. The screen is filled with:
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As the cursor rotates several times, it puts another dot on the screen at the location it was rotating. The cursor rotates using the characters / | \
Is this an update being performed or this indicating some boot issue after BIOS update. I started the BIOS update 20 hours ago. While I was watching it, it was performing an update 12 out of 20 and it took over 2 hours to get to update 14.
lcatania
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May 2nd, 2013 14:00
Left it overnight again and it still had same issue. Decided to hit the power button and and hope it would boot up. When I turned it on, I discovered what the dots were and what it was trying to do. It was trying to boot using the PXE Intel Boot Agent. It was requesting an address using a DHCP and the dots was a progress indicator or indicator to let me know it was trying. Prior to my BIOS update, this timed out when it could not acquire an IP. I just went into BIOS and removed the option to first try to boot using PXE and made it look at HD first.
speedstep
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May 1st, 2013 09:00
GPU needs reflow.:emotion-9: