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

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IT does sound like there's something broken about thet first install. At this
point in your shoes I would perform a repair reinstallation of Windows on to
that install. http://ask-leo.com/how_should_i_reinstall_windows.html

Good luck!

Leo

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Hi Leo. My PC was fine really, but then i accidently change the display graphics settings, and now I find that computer gets as far as the WIndows XP Logo on start up and then black screen hanging occurs, even though windows has definately loaded up and is running in the background (the keyboard and mouse are functioning, altho they cant be seen).

I want to try to revert them back how you originally described, but It wont boot in safe mode now either! when i click on Boot in safe mode after F8, it just comes up with a list of about 20 different random directories , and then nothing else happens!:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\ACPI.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\WMILIB.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\pci.sys
etc etc.

please advise How I can get into safe mode or manage to visibly see windows to revert my display settings back to default.

Hope to hear from you soon.
Thankyou

Alex

Please HELP, I too accidently change the display graphics settings, and now I find that computer gets as far as the WIndows XP Logo on start up and then black screen hanging occurs, even though windows has definately loaded up and is running in the background. The other big problem is that I have set up 3 users 1)Admin with password 2)guest (limited access rights) no password 3) Admin2 with password!
I want to try to revert them back how you originally described, but It wont boot in safe mode now either! when i click on Boot in safe mode after F8, it just comes up with a list of about 20 different random directories , and then nothing else happens!:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\ACPI.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\WMILIB.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers\pci.sys
Please help

Hi Leo
Just to add: System Core2Duo E4300 2GB/250GB & 7200TC 512MB SLI XBlade, I remember setting something to 100% and from system to auto I feel really silly!,
VGA Mode does nothing either

I just tried another monitor Samsung SM931BW thinking it would work 1400 to 900 resolution however no avail.

Can you please help?

Many thanks in advance.

when i turn on my computer it gets power but just goes to a black screen i tried hooking up 2 other monitors to see if it was that but they all do it it wont do anything just go to a black screen but the tower gets powersomeone said its the memory card fell out can you help

when i open my computer the icons on my desktop is not showing only the wallpaper itself but not the shortcuts of the installed program and when i boot it in the safe mode that's the same thing that happen.plss hel mo mr.leo!!!

i really need your help...plsss

Dear Mr. leo iam a comp person myself my hard drive shut down on me a few days ago well i did a fresh install of windows xp ser pack 2 then went though the updats and all that and added my viurs pro, after restarding the comp the windows logo comes on with the scroll thing going aross then the screen goes blank and i clue on how to help me out one.

thanks and hopefully i here from ya soon

Hi

a few days ago, i turned on my PC, everything loaded as normal, but then explorer.exe suddenly closed and so the icons and start menu etc all disappeared. Using my task manager, i got onto the internet to search for a solution. Searched for viruses with many different programs but nothing was found. I then read that the google taskbar could be creating this problem, so i uninstalled it, restarted my comp, and then the problem that this topic is about occured - i just got a black screen after the windows logo bit. i tried bootingit up in safe mode, and also in the last known good configuration settings, but i just ot the same problem every time, its almost as though it freezes just after the windows logo bit.

could this be some kind of virus that i could not find at work or is my computer's components breaking or what? any help would be appreciated.

Another way to solve this problem is to start the computer in vga mode :)

I inadvertently uninstalled the 'vgasave' driver so no display. It was easy to get the display back in XP.
Put the os disk in
boot to repair console
use the 'enable' command to re-enable vgasave.

the command is:

enable vgasave service_boot_start

hit return then reboot to either safe mode or normal.

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