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I have windows 8.1 and last night boot my PC and the windows boot up logo starts followed by a black a screen of nothingness and a cursor which flashes on the screen whenever it pleases.

I have went into safe mode BUT it's still a black screen. I need help thanks. I also have UEFI dual bios of that helps.

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If its not booting in Safe Mode we can almost disregard a Driver problem (although it could still be the case) But it sounds more hardware.

Have you tried booting from the windows install disk and doing a system restore to before the issues happened?

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Does your motherboard of a LED read out or a speaker? 

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Have you just upgraded to Windows 8.1? You should try to press F8 at startup and try a System Repair, or a Restore. If you can't do that, try this:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1860487/black-screen-white-cursor-upgrading-windows-pro.html

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If its not booting in Safe Mode we can almost disregard a Driver problem (although it could still be the case) But it sounds more hardware.

Have you tried booting from the windows install disk and doing a system restore to before the issues happened?

I do not have a CD drive, how else would I be able to do this?

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Does your motherboard of a LED read out or a speaker?

pardon?

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