Hello im a computer novice when it comes to the understanding of how they run so bare with me here, i too have a packard bell and i use an external hard drive when i leave the external hard drive pluged in the front via usb it never gets past the packard bell logo screen where you can press F2 / F8 for bios etc, usually i normally think (oh yes the extrenal HD, i forget the pc wont load with it in) and unplug it, i do this all the time and have done for around a year or so, today i had to restart my pc, same thing happend, i unplugged it from the front but the pc wouldnt go further, so i restarted my pc and now all i have is a black screen.
Turn the pc on , the front light comes on, the pc fan starts spinning, all the usual load up noises happen but i get nothing, no cursor, no logos, no white writing, no options, nothing.
I tried turning my pc on and off like 10 times, still nothing, left it around 30 mins tried again still nothing, then tried tacking out my Ram cleaning it etc, still nothing, thats when i googled packard bell / black screen and for this thread, it seems very very similar to what im experiancing can anyone help me get past a black screen when i cant actually click or do anything?
Thanks.