{"id":5727,"date":"2021-11-16T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=5727"},"modified":"2021-11-16T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:20:16","slug":"random-letters-and-excalamtion-marks-on-start","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/random-letters-and-excalamtion-marks-on-start\/63247.html","title":{"rendered":"Random Letters And Excalamtion Marks On Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My computer shut down, and when I restarted it, it booted up to a black screen filled with exclamation marks and unreadable text. For example, instead of windows safe-mode it might have said weopiws sbgf-npef. If you click on anything it restarts the computer. I was wondering if was a bad hard drive. I reinstalled Windows Xp, which I think reformated the hard drive, and it worked fine that night. The next morning it was back doing the same thing. So I was wondering if it might be a bad hard drive or something.<\/p>\n<p>when i boot up the HP screen comes up, then the black screen and exclamation marks come up. and I can barely make out what the words are, kinda like they are jumbled. But like I said I put windows xp back on there and it worked that night but it quit the next day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}