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hi i turn my pc on and it says the make of the model and then goes straight to a black screen with a little white line on the top of the screen flashing when i press button it beeps can u help me please
Posted by: Liam at March 27, 2008 6:28 AMHello.....
I had the blackout screen problem... i also thought it was a driver problem.
But, I formatted the drive and reloaded xp....... the installation went well, but as soon as its finished, and windows loads, another blackout occurs. It dont even give me chance to reload the drivers.
The resolution settings isnt even available in safe mode.
I even tried another display card. Nothing!! the same problem over and over....
Hi,
I experienced also the black screen on one of my laptops. Since I work as a IT professional I 'felt' it was not a serious problem and thought of a malware issue.
Scanned with many tools,HitmanPro, SpaywareBlaster, BitDefender i.e. No go.
Booting in Safe mode gave all options, here too.
Tried a scandisk and repair, FixMBR, still no go.
Somewhere on a forum I have read about setting the display settings to a minimum: 640x480 and a 8 bit color depth. I did.
After rebooting in Safemode I got a "Display Driver error" with a popupscreen and step by step troubleshooting. It led to a setting that told me my Display was set on "TV Display" !
Since modern videocards have many advanced options it easily can be switched to a setting and 'forget' the change... (or som software pest dit it for you!)
Well as notebooks have a external display option, this sounded fair to me, and after changing this into LCD/portable or whatever, after rebooting, I had my old windows settings back with a familiar screen!
Just had to re-adjust the screen settings, and voila!
So it all seems to relate to some other Display setting and not a driver issue.
It may not be helpful to all of you, but perhaps you will get a hint like I did.
O, and if you are using a AGP card, try another one or even a PCI card to see if your desktop reappears...
I am trying to help my parent with this problem, when they turn their computer on, it goes to sleep. It is a new compute and worked fine yesterday, what do you recommend
Posted by: Robin at April 8, 2008 4:24 PMmy computer doesn't work, what do i do?
it starts up normally untill the windows logo appears, then the blue login screen appears but there is no space to insert password or anything, it's just a blank blue screen. then nothing happens happens after that, it just stays blank for few minutes then goes black. i cannot even use any of the programs because it freezes half way when i turn it on.
what do i do?
what is wrong?
can it be fixed?
Please I beg of you for help, everything I do is on my computer, I'm a graphic artist and all my prints are on my computer(stupid I know) I was going to buy an external hardrive tonight, but got this problem instead. Whenever I turn on my computer, it loads up the first couple of seconds, goes black, the the blue screen of death comes up, even when I try in safe mode, it always freezes at .../drivers/MUP for a couple seconds and then goes to blue screen, please help me!
Posted by: Tristin at June 28, 2008 9:54 PMi did all the steps above for monitor black out problem. But when i switch to safe mode computer restarts and do not show anything after the windows xp loading screen.
Posted by: Nadeem at July 26, 2008 5:46 AMNow, click on the Advanced button, and then the Monitor tab of the resulting dialog box. Change the Screen refresh rate to 60 Hertz.
YES BUT I CANT DO THAT..and i have the same problem with black screen,but the screen shows me in small window -> Hz ? O pls pls ..PLS HELLP!
Similar problem here with my PC. I wanted to use my Samsung tv as a monitor and hooked it up, but it would not work (the TV worked with my laptop though). I was playing with the display settings in XP and after changing one of the advanced ones even my old monitor stopped working properly and goes to black after initial windows logo and boot. I have tried to restart in safe mode, but it's only giving me 2 options and asking where to boot from (machine or disk). No matter which one I choose it will not let me into safe mode and I still get the black screen. I believe the pc works fine, it's just not showing anything and I am completely blind as a consequence!
I read here that I could disconnect the video card: is this a good idea? Then plug it back in and Windows will recognise new hardware?
I have also tried to change the BIOS settings to VGA mode but to no avail. I think the problem, which I have caused, lies in the video card (but don't ask me what I have as I can't get into my PC to tell you).
Many thanks for your help
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the problem was a set of microsoft security updates which caused the problem twice , i booted in safe mode did a sys restore then i noticed the same thing happened again because the updates were reinstalled . so i unchecked the updates and checked the box do not display these updates again
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