Why does my screen go black after the Windows screen when I boot?

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Need some help here. I went to safe mode but it's still black. The heading and "Safe Mode"s in the corners are there but the screen is still black.

i have a HP notebook of series dv1355ea and installed with windows xp home edition. few days ago i installed some graphics driver since then my notebook doesnt turn on. i tried a lot to boot in safe mode or vga mode or even i used last know good configuration menu option but alas it doesnt work. i have all option in the f8 menu but still faces the same probs. plz help me in solving the issue.

Thanks & regards

I HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM ONLY MY BLACK SCREEN COMES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROGRAM OR ON THE INTERNET. I WAS JUST ON THE INTERNET AND HIT A SCREEN BUTTON TO GO TO ANOTHER PAGE AND BOOM....ALL BLACK. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS. ANYONE????????????????

I accidently hit the wrong link on display properties and now I have black text on black screen on desktop, on any righ click menues and all of the pages loading up and I can't see anything on those screens.

How do I change it back under those circumstances? Windows XP computer.

in safe mode, my screen is black and I don't have any options. What do I do?

I hav a dell xps and the screen is crack only way i can use it is if i use a cpu monitor! Res is too high and i cant change it cuz the monitor stays black when i plug it into my laptop! what should i do?

hi, my computer will not get past the toshiba screen ive tried going to the setup, ive tried everything, but to no avail, my laptop is out of commision, the model is toshiba sattelite a-135 s7404 and the screen will not make past the microsoft corporation window, and i have no way to boot it up, and now i cannot get onto the choose your preferred way(safe mode, start windows normally, etc.)it goes to the startup repair and does absolutely nothing after going to that screen. please help me! thanks, Taylor

my screen is black with the word going across it enter password but i cant change to anyscreen.

I have a question on black screen. I get a black screen every so often. The screen will flicker and then go black for a few seconds. It is very annoying when I am working on something.
I have a vaio sony vgc-js190D
Any suggestions?
Pat

I HOPE THIS HELPS...FIRST OF ALL I'M NOT A COMPUTOR WIZZ NOR DO I REALLY UNDERSTAND COMPUTOR STUFF, BUT THE BLACKSCREEN THINGY HAPPENED TO ME, I WENT TO EVERYONES HELP AND IDEAS...AND THIS IS THE RESULT....I WAS ABLE TO THRU SAFEMODE WITH NETWORKING, AND I DID THE REGEDIT.EXE THING AND FOUND IT DIDN'T WORK...I REMEMBERED B4 THIS ALL HAPPENED, MY COMPUTOR TOLD ME THAT I HAD UPDATES...SO BECAUSE I COULD DO A SYSTEM RESTORE I RESTORED BACK A DAY BEFORE THE UPDATES...AND IT WORKED...I THEN WENT TO SEE WHAT THE UPDATES WERE AND SAW THAT THE WINDOWS VISTA SERVICE PACK 2(KB948465)WAS READY FOR INSTALLATION...SO I'M ALITTLE HESITANT TO INSTALL THIS...LIKE I SAID I'M NO COMPUTOR WIZZ...SO MAYBE ALL U COMP WIZZ'S OUT THERE CAN TAKE IT FROM THERE, AND LET ME KNOW IF THIS WAS OF HELP!!

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