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abqtommy

(14,118 posts) Sun May 17, 2020, 10:08 AM May 2020

Help Me!!! (in screechy falsetto voice from The Fly) I'm trying to do a reset of my son's WIN 10 [View all]

puter since we got the Blue Screen Of Death this morning. I'm at the point where the screen will
indicate 88% complete then the monitor will display No Signal while the power light either flashes
or stays on steady. I've shut the thing off and on a few times but come back to what I just described What can I expect now?

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Help Me!!! (in screechy falsetto voice from The Fly) I'm trying to do a reset of my son's WIN 10 [View all] abqtommy May 2020 OP

Do you have the power cord plugged in? lpbk2713 May 2020 #1

This may help mercuryblues May 2020 #2

Thanks, already have that. I'm in the middle of the RESET process but wondering what's going abqtommy May 2020 #3

External monitor? LiberalArkie May 2020 #4

Thanks but it's not the monitor. If I do a hard reset it comes up and starts the whole process abqtommy May 2020 #5

I had this problem years ago mercuryblues May 2020 #6

Can you get it started in safe mode? DonaldsRump May 2020 #7

I got it in safe mode, tried this and that then chose to do a OS RESET and I should be abqtommy May 2020 #9

Tech hubby says sounds like bad hardware. Ram, hard drive, etc GreenPartyVoter May 2020 #8

Thanks all. It's up and running thanks to Disaffected over in General Discussion. Son has abqtommy May 2020 #10

maybe post the link so others that have the problem can find it Kali May 2020 #11

Oh yeah, I could have said that Disaffected suggested I unplug the power cord then plug abqtommy May 2020 #12

... Kali May 2020 #13