LIGHTNING BOLT AND GEAR ON SCREEN

Find the button with the lightning bolt icon. Press it and watch the screen...when you see a lightning bolt with a diagonal line through it, you've turned off the flash.

You didn't say what camera you have so I can only give you a generic answer. Press the button with the lightning bolt icon and watch the screen. When you see a lightning bolt with a diagonal line through it, you've turned off the flash.

Maybe it's just turned off. Press the button with the lightning bolt and watch the screen. Stop when you see the word auto and a lightning bolt.

Do you have the flash turned off? Does the screen show a lightning bolt with a line through it? If so, press the button with the lightning bolt and watch the screen for a lightning bolt and an "a".

Do you have it turned off? Is there a picture of a lightning bolt with a line through it? If so, press the button with the lightning bolt until the screen shows a lightning bolt and an "a". Also, do you have the camera set on a scene mode such as night? The flash won't go off in some scene modes.

Press the button with the picture of a lightning bolt...watch the screen and when a lightning bolt with a line through it appears, your flash is off.

Is your battery fully charged? It's not an old battery on its last legs, is it?

Pressing reset would not disable your flash. On the screen, does a lightning bolt icon appear? Is there a letter A or the word auto next to it? Or does the lightning bolt have a diagonal line through it? In any case, press the button on the back of your camera with the picture of the lightning bolt until the lightning bolt with "A" or "auto" appears next to it on the screen.

There should be a button on the back with a lightning bolt. Press that while watching the screen. When you see a lightning bolt appear with an "A" next to it, you will be on auto flash.

Turned out it just needed time to charge enough to turn on.