Black Screen with Blinking Courser

I shut down my server last night to install some new network hardware and a UPS for the entire rack. When I went to boot up my main windows server 2012 R2 Datacenter server it would go through BIOS just fine but once it got to the part where it is supposed
to boot windows it would just sit at a black screen with a blinking line at the bottom of the screen. I tried restarting the server, did not fix anything. I tried using an install disk to repair it but it does not want to do anything with the install disk.
I have ran out of any ideas on how to fix it. Any help will be much appreciated.

Hi,
As new hardware devices are installed, your first step should be removing all these new devices and boot the computer to see the result. Sometimes new hardware devices could cause similar issue due to compatibility issue.
If still failed, please keep pressing F8 during your reboot and see if it will bring the boot menu. Test to boot into Safe Mode to see if it will work. If so, a quick solution is to do a system recovery if available.
Note: You may lose new files created after the date of recovery point. 
PS: As you mentioned a disk repair, you may not able to do this without a Windows Server 2012 R2 disk.

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