nadielaya7 wrote:Do not tell me to type anything at the terminal because i dont have anything but a black screen!!
bw123 wrote:Hp Pavillion and it says Asus when you boot up, okay that makes sense.
nadielaya7 wrote:Lesson learned, if you happen to mess with any deep configuration of the debian system, first thing to do after you get a working solution and are back on track is to REFORMAT and start again, dont hang around with weird changes youve made thinking it wont be able to haunt you back later!!
bw123 wrote:nadielaya7 wrote:Lesson learned, if you happen to mess with any deep configuration of the debian system, first thing to do after you get a working solution and are back on track is to REFORMAT and start again, dont hang around with weird changes youve made thinking it wont be able to haunt you back later!!
Deep configuration of the debian system didn't do this. You using the computer like a cat walking around on the keyboard probably didn't help things, it's obviously a 1D10T error, PEBCAK.
steve_v wrote:The lesson to learn from all this is to have a proper backup strategy, so one can make such changes in safety.
Reformat? What? Just restore from backup.
pylkko wrote:If your BIOS ever gets completely corrupted so that it does not work, the computer will likely do nothing. I have read many first hand reports from people that have flashed their BIOS chip in some wrong way and usually they always say that they notice it because nothing happens when they put the power on, nothing, no sound, no leds light up and so on.
If your machine does stuff but the screen is black then you should try to interact with it in some manner without a display (for example remote desktop/ ssh).
You can always remove hard disks and attach them to other machines. So it is fairly simple and trivial to recover data from a hard disk by your self without having to pay for some service.
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