I have an older 5734Z, I have been dual booting window 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Please don't ask why, but a couple nights ago I got extremely mad, and ended up inserting my Linux live cd, and formatting the entire hdd to Fat32, I only mention this to show why I'm trying to reinstall.
So the next day, I get my Windows 7 install disk insert it in the DVD drive, rebooted, computer finished POST, and immediately went to a blank screen with a flashing cursor, the PC is completely unresponsive, or even locked up, it does not respond to anything but the power button. This happened about 5 times, so I got my Linux install CD, and got the same result, POST to flashing cursor on a blank screen and the pc is totally unresponsive, only option is to press the power button until it shuts off. I try a couple of other install disk same result.
Then I get a USB DVD drive, and try all the different installation media, with the same result. So I get another pc, and create a USB flash drive installer, with the same flashing cursor and blank screen. I know that formatting the drive has no effect on whether it load the DVD/USB installation media, I know that what the hdd is formatted to has no effect on booting to install media, I know that I don't need to format before reinstalling, but at the time reinstalling wasn't exactly what was on my mind, I just wanted the computer blank. This is all stuff I have been told on other forums instead of addressing my problem, which is why won't it boot to either the DVD/USB DVD/USB flash drives?
