The machine had both onboard and a video card. It was setup oddly. There's other causes like a CD or other drive that is failing and the BIOS is locked up scanning for the drive and timing out eventually.
Bob
Never seen this before. Every time my mom turns on her computer, it just hangs at a black screen for about two minutes. It DOES have a tiny white bar, like the text indicator thing, in the top left corner of the screen, but it doesn't blink, and you can't type anything.
After about two minutes, it flashes to the motherboard screen giving you the BIOS options (you know, "Press F12 for boot", then goes to start Windows up.
Anyone ever seen this happen before? Is her computer possessed? Is there something wrong with her motherboard hookups? Should we cleanse it with fire?
Please help.

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