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Black screen, blinking cursor Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:29 am Posted by gewg_ (3925 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Black screen, blinking cursor Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:08 pm Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) Not to me. She said she can't enter any text. That sounds like a bad keyboard. $6 is the price at any one of my local thrift shops and that would be cheap to test. Of course a $3.50 battery would be harder to test, being a screwdriver job, but it could probably use a fresh battery anyway. On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:29 am, gewg_ wrote: >|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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum