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Phil Allely Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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Acer 5742z black screen flashing icon

My acer latop restarted itself last night and since all im getting ia a black screen with a flashing icon, can anyone help?

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The hard drive has issues, or windows files have been corrupted, Remove hardware from the laptop and reseat it back in place, sometimes this is enough to get it started, if no change! do a operational install with the cd installation disc, if this fails the hard drive should be assessed for replacement.

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By the sounds of it you've install an update that could have gone wrong. i'm not sure if it's the same with all acers but it might be keep pressing F8 and try logging into windows via through safemode if you can't do this then you could have corrupted some stuff on the motherboard and i would contact Acer customer support

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When you hit F2 it takes you to the BIOS menu, and that's where you should go and while in there go to Boot, and using arrow keys select the one that says IDE WDC and move it with F6 to position 1. Then press F10 and select Yes. Restart and it should work. Post back if still having trouble.

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when booting push simulteniously f8 button,when you get to the menu highlight"disable automatic restart"reboot.

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