Black screen, blinking cursor Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:29 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3926 messages posted) |At start up[...]it reads ms dos start in plug and play |but at the flickering prompt it will not let me enter anything. | leigh "Flicker" is an entirely different phenomenon; it is much faster than a slow "blink". Sounds like a dead / almost-dead CMOS battery. http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/articles/cmosreplace.asp Written in response to: flickering prompt (leigh: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:10 am) Responses to this message: re: Black screen, blinking cursor (dhm: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:08 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] flickering prompt (leigh: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:10 am) Black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:29 am) re: Black screen, blinking cursor (dhm: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:08 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum