M9500f gets into blackscreen at startup with blinking cursor at top left of screen. F11 (system recovery) don't work.

take the big battery out first?
if F11 is dead that means, HDD bad, or corrupted.
reload from HP recovery media at HP, we are NOT HP.

it came new with W7 and never changed?

Hi,

Some of the emachines coming with Recovery image. You need to press F11 key on starting to check whether the image is available or not. If it is there proceed with restore.

Otherwise you need a recovery CD to do this. If you don't have any CD then you could purchase the recovery disk for your emachines from the link below by entering the serial number on your computer:
https://secure.tx.acer.com/RCDB/Main.aspx?brand=emachines

Larry,

There are many circumstances that can create a blinking cursor.

First, check the laptop and make sure that there are no extra devices plugged into it, and that there are no CD/DVDs in the optical drive. Then, unplug the power cord and remove the battery. Then press and hold the power button for 30 seconds to drain any residual power in the laptop. After that, plug back in just the power cord (leave the battery out) and try to turn the system back on.

If it goes to the blinking cursor, power the system back off. You'll need to boot up into the BIOS now and reset the BIOS defaults. To get into the BIOS on that computer, you will need to start it up - and when you see the very first screen, there should be a message to press ESC to enter the setup. Press the ESC key a few times when you see that message and then at the menu press F10 to enter the BIOS Setup. Once you are in the setup, use your arrow keys to move to the option for Load Setup Defaults. (That option might be under the Exit area.) Then after you've loaded the defaults, make sure to save changes and exit. Try to boot up again. If it still brings you to a flashing cursor, then we need to try to run the diagnostics on the computer.

To get the computer to run diagnostics, try pressing the F2 key during the first screen when the computer turns on. If the diags run and the hard drive passes, then you'll need to look at running the F11 recovery at startup. The F11 recover will erase all of the files on the computer and restore it to the factory default - so be aware that this is a last effort solution.

If you need to have data recovered off of the computer, you will need to take it to a certified technician who can remove the hard drive from the laptop and pull the data off of the hard drive via a slave system.

If the hard drive fails the diagnostics, you will need to contact HP for a replacement disk. You can get that process started by calling HP at 866-234-1377.


Let me know how things turn out!

blinking cursor problem is the error messages to your hard disk. do troubleshooting on your hard disk by replacing the hard disk (100% fully functional) and then do the system installation
(you will get results cheer)

good luck
TQ

it sounds like the motherboard is going out because of the black screen

on my pc the motherboard shorted out the power supply & harddrive- I got my motherboard from ebay & also my harddrive they were reasonable

a second computer is always handy & if you decided to get a new one,you could rebuild the old one & keep it as a spare

That cursor indicated that the BIOS can't find an Windows installed on the hdd. Since even the recovery partition appears to be inaccessible the only thing left is to reinstall it using the recovery cd that should have come with it when you bought it If you don't have it you can order it from Dell.

That blinking cursor is the way in which the BIOS is telling you that Windows is missing - its most critical, core files have been corrupted beyond repair. The only thing you can do is to reinstall using the recovery cd or your own Windows install disk.

go to the start menu and key on the program lower tab. The go to accessories. Click on command prompt which takes you to the DOS screen.
Now you will see a blinking cursor on the black screen which all you need to do is to type in chkdsk /f /r

This will repair any programs that were not running correctly. after it is done your computer may reboot itself. If not reboot it and see what it does, Itshould work fine unless deeper problems in the EXE BATCH FILE is present

Restart your computer, press F8, advanced boot options menu will be seen.
1> Select REPAIR and then STARTUP REPAIR.
2> If it does not works then again restart your computer and press F11. Use the internal recovery partition to format the windows partition of your hard drive by selecting SYSTEM RECOVERY.
3> If it fails to solve again, use your or order a set of RECOVERY DISCS for your system.
It will solve every issue............
On faliure again, contact HP support centre, or your nearest HP/Compaq service centre

Its seems its not booting correctly. Just Insert Windows CD and fix the windows. Another solution is to press (I think) F1 or F11 or F12 (depending on the model) when booting the machine. It will take you to recovery mode. Use it to restore the boot section ONLY.