Why is my laptop booting to a black screen/ BIOS?

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Samsung NP-N102S-B05PH

A 2012 Samsung netbook. Released with many variations, all of which are very similar from a repair standpoint.

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The laptop, upon powering on, loads to either a black error screen or the BIOS instead of Windows.

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Talal Al Khayari @talal2 crwdns2934065:0crwdne2934065:0: 35 4 · Answer 1 · 2016-11-08T11:28:33-07:00

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The first possibility is that the Hard-drive is either defective or does not have Windows installed correctly.

The second most likely scenario involves the laptop either lacking RAM, or trying to load with faulty RAM.

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