American Megatrends appears

Question

I turned on my PC and the American Megatrends logo appears. It disappears and I see no error message. Sometimes the black screen goes away and windows boots around after a hour or so. Are there any fixes to this? Also, I see a underscore flash for my cursor, it goes invisible. My keyboard does nothing. I don’t hear any beeps. I have two monitors and my primary one goes blank. My secondary monitor has the issue. It occurs right after I turn on the PC and monitor.

Answer 1

Hi JeremiahMiller5 -

I'm Kevin B., I do apologize for the inconvenience that you're experiencing right now, let me help you sort things out.

American Megatrends is the OEM logo of your computer which usually appears whenever the computer turns on and before it loads windows.

When did the issue started? Are there any recent changes made on the computer before the issue started?

Kindly follow the steps below and check if it helps

Boot your computer in safemode. -

Safemode is a windows environment used to troubleshoot, diagnose and repair corrupted windows system files. While computer is in safemode, no 3rd party application will run, not even your anti-virus, and selected services needed by windows to boot are the only running service on the computer. This ensures us that the computer will only use applications and services at a minimal level to avoid 3rd party conflicting application and services.

Please click on the link below and follow the steps in booting your computer in safemode.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sta...

Once booted into safemode, kindly run a system file checker to verify the integrity of windows system files on your computer making sure that there are no corrupted files on your windows.

Perform SFC Scan and Repair Windows Image

-This process will perform scan for any corrupted system files or integrity violation and will attempt to repair it along with the Windows Image.

1. Open command prompt with administrator access
2. Type each command below and wait until scan is completed.

SFC /scannow

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Quick note: While the command is running, it's expected to see the process stuck at 20 or 40 percent. After a few minutes, the process will complete successfully.

Once you complete the steps, the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool will connect to the Windows Update servers to download and replace any damaged files in the local image for Windows 10 as necessary.

3. Close the command prompt.

Once done, please do perform clean boot on your windows computer to disable any non-Microsoft services on your windows computer which may be causing or contributing to the issue

Perform Clean Boot

• This process will eliminate 3rd party application running in the background of your computer along with services that are not needed to run windows. If there's any conflicting 3rd party application that causes the issue on your computer, this process will stop it.

1. Open the run box by pressing the Windows Key + R and type msconfig
2. System Configuration Utility box will open and by default you are on general tab.
3. On the General tab, click the selective startup and make sure that load system service and load startup items both have checked mark.
4. Click on services tab
5. Put a check mark on Hide All Microsoft Services > This is a very important part as if you miss to click on this, computer might not boot properly or permanently and will end up on clean installation.
6. Once Hide all Microsoft Services have checked mark on it, click on Disable All
7. Click on the Startup Tab and click open task manager. This will open another window which contains all your startup applications on the administrator account.
8. Disable all application that you're not using. You can simply just click on them and select disable.
9. Click OK , Apply and close the configuration utility

Restart the computer normally and check if the same issue appears

Hope this will help and have a bless day!

Thanks.

Kevin B.

Independent advisor

Answer 2

Begun a few nights ago. Turned it off to watch a movie. It started appearing when I turned it on after the movie.

Answer 3

I have. I have turned it on and off repeatedly. All I see is when it turns off, I see lines. And it started to turn off, on, off, on, automatically.

Answer 4

Hi JeremiahMiller5 -

Thanks for the response

Kindly do proceed with the steps and keep me posted of the result

Regards,

Kevin B.

Answer 5

I’m currently in the BIOS.