{"id":65,"date":"2004-08-01T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/screen-remains-black-mouse-cursor-appears-when-booting-from-the-installation-diskette-or-from-hard-drive-with-bootit-ng-installed\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:20:44","slug":"screen-remains-black-mouse-cursor-appears-when-booting-from-the-installation-diskette-or-from-hard-drive-with-bootit-ng-installed","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/screen-remains-black-mouse-cursor-appears-when-booting-from-the-installation-diskette-or-from-hard-drive-with-bootit-ng-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Remains Black (Mouse Cursor Appears) When Booting from the Installation Diskette, or From Hard Drive with BootIt NG Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This problem can be caused by a number of things. Your best approach at a solution to this issue will depend on your configuration:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>If you have a&nbsp;Zip\u00ae drive, please note that&nbsp;the &quot;black screen&quot; issue can be caused if the Zip\u00ae&nbsp;drive is&nbsp;configured as a hard drive. There may be a delay if you have your Zip\u00ae drive configured as a hard drive and no disk is in the Zip\u00ae drive. You can either insert a disk or change the Zip\u00ae drive setting in the BIOS from <strong>Enabled<\/strong> to <strong>Removable<\/strong>. Some BIOSes don't have a specific Zip\u00ae drive setting and it may be that it is configured along with the hard drives. In that case, set the correct controller\/device from <strong>Auto<\/strong> (or a manually-configured setting) to <strong>None<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If you do not have a Zip\u00ae drive, try updating the system BIOS.<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This problem can be caused by a number of things. Your best approach at a solution to this issue will depend on your configuration: If you have a&nbsp;Zip\u00ae drive, please note that&nbsp;the &quot;black screen&quot; issue can be caused if the Zip\u00ae&nbsp;drive is&nbsp;configured as a hard drive. There may be a delay if you have your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1809],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-65","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-problem-solving-bing-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/65\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}