freezing on black screen at startup

Hello

I have problems with windows vista starts.  It worked very well upward until a few days ago.  I think that my computer has downloaded an automatic update.  The computer is turned off and updates apparently installed without problems, error messages, etc.  However, since that time, the computer hangs at startup.

I can insert my password, but after that, the screen goes black and nothing happens after that.   The arrow cursor mouse is on the screen and moves with the mouse control, but nothing happens.

I tried:

1 safe mode: the computer starts in safe mode

2. start: computer hangs when you try a clean boot

3. repair of installation: no error or the problem has been detected

4 system restore to a date prior to the occurrence of this problem.

I don't know what else to try.  Any other suggestions would be great.  Thank you.

Hello

This my convenience store blackscreen generic and some of what you might have tried however as things
go along and especially if no improvement, you may want to track/repeat all the steps you've tried
previous to see if they have an effect.

As you get past login, maybe there will be something in Event Viewer Help.

Look in the Event Viewer to see if something is reported on those.
http://www.computerperformance.co.UK/Vista/vista_event_viewer.htm

MyEventViewer - free - a simple alternative in the standard Windows Event Viewer.
TIP - Options - Advanced filter allows you to see a time instead of all of the file
.
http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/my_event_viewer.html

You can access Mode safe? Repeatedly press F8 as you start? If yes you can try Control Panel - device
Manager - graphics card - Double click on - driver tab - click on UPDATE driver - then right click
on devices and UNINSTALL - REBOOT.

Another method to try to get to the desktop (try in normal Windows Mode without failure)
CTRL + ALT + DELETE and on the tab process EXPLORER.exe and COMPLETE the PROCESS on this subject - then
on the Applications tab - lower right - new task - type in EXPLORER.exe. Safe mode is reached
by tapping F8 as you start several times.

First check this thread in case it is simple and if not to come back to this thread.

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistaprograms/thread/50247d5e-0ae0-446c-A1bd-11287fd1478a

Black screen problems are extremely difficult to repair and all patch is usually on a base hit or miss.
That there is no information on a black screen as it is on a blue screen just adds to the
Difficulty. Often using a restore point or Startup Repair will have no effect. You can try a
Google to see the proposed repairs, whom some have worked however these cover a wide
field efforts.

Here's a video of one of them.

http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&q=black+screen+of+death+Vista&btnG=search&AQ=f&OQ=&AQI=G1

Here's another fix
http://blogs.PCMag.com/SecurityWatch/2008/12/the_mysterious_black_screen_of.php

You have a Vista disk? You can try restoring the system to it. If you do not have your system disks
manufacturer will sell them at low prices. Or try in safe mode if you can get there.

How to make a Vista system restore
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-System-Restore-how.html

You can create a recovery disc or use someone even version (to do the system restore there only to)
being bootable).

How to create a Vista recovery disk
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

------------------------------------------------

These require the correct Vista discs since you can not start safe mode.

Try the Startup Repair tool-

This tells you how to access the System Recovery Options and/or with a Vista disk
http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/326b756b-1601-435e-99D0-1585439470351033.mspx

Try recovery options Startup Repair

How to do a startup repair
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

-----------------------------------------------

Here are a few Google searches where many have found different solutions:

Vista black screen - check that a 1st
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&source=HP&q=Vista+black+screen&AQ=f&OQ=&AQI=G10

Vista black screen Solution
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&q=Vista+black+screen+solution&AQ=f&OQ=&AQI

Vista black screen Fix
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&q=Vista+black+screen+fix&AQ=f&OQ=&AQI

-----------------------------------------------

If necessary and you can access all ordinary Windows.

You can try an In-Place Upgrade (hopefully save programs and data) or a repair installation (if all goes well
saves the data, and you need to reinstall the programs). Be sure to do a good backup or three.

You can use another DVD that are not protected but you will need to copy you have the product key.

On-site upgrade
http://vistasupport.MVPs.org/repair_a_vista_installation_using_the_upgrade_option_of_the_vista_dvd.htm

If nothing works, you can make a repair facility that must save the data but you will need to
Reinstall the programs. This also requires correct Vista disks especially for OEM versions. You will be
need to know your product Code.

This tells you how to access the System Recovery Options and/or a Vista DVD
http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/326b756b-1601-435e-99D0-1585439470351033.mspx

How to perform a repair for Vista Installation
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-Vista.html

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another method that works sometimes: at the command prompt, type of Vista startup disk:
(type in a single line or copy / paste a line at a time and then press enter - type no parenthesis)
or "BOLD"
)

c:

cd\

CD c:\Windows\System32\winevt (there is a space between cd and C :)

Ren LogsOLD Logs (there are spaces between ren and newspapers and Logsold)

RESTART Windows

I hope this helps.
Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

Tags: Windows

Similar Questions

  • Satellite A305-S6898 - half black screen at startup

    I bought this laptop in early March and had to return to store due to a problem at startup when half of the screen would be black on the Windows login screen. They ordered me a new I got about 3 weeks ago and I used it for about a week before I had the same problem of a half black screen on startup.

    Now he has been running really slow and there is a time, I've had it freeze on me and my screen turn into a bunch of colored lines.
    I had to reboot in safe mode and run a virus scan just to make sure it wasn't my problem.

    I do not download anything on this computer other than basic messengers and photo editing programs.
    I have a HP MP7170N desktop computer which I use to download everything that seems to work faster than the laptop and I use photo, download torrents programs and store most of my pictures and music on this one and it has only 1 GB of memory compared to this the 4 GB.

    What is the problem?
    Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do.
    I can't really go back to the shop because they give only a grace period of 14 days for returns.

    > I had the same problem of a half black screen on startup.
    > Now he has been running really slow and there is a time, I've had it freeze on me and my screen turn into a bunch of colored lines.

    Doesn't look good for me it sounds a bit like graphic problem.
    Before contacting a professional Toshiba authorized service provider would be, it would be interesting to know if you have seen improvements after recovery procedure and BIOS updated.
    I think you n t get a recovery disk because you can create it using the verification of software preinstalled Toshiba manual how to create the recovery disk

    If, after installing new check usability of portable and so similar issues still persists.
    If nothing will change it s is strongly recommended to communicate with an ASP.

  • All of a sudden my Macbook Air 2013 13 inch 4 GB shows a black screen at startup

    All of a sudden my Macbook Air 2013 13 inch 4 GB shows a black screen at startup, no problems before

    Try to leave is SafeMode as shown here:

    Try safe mode if your Mac does not end commissioning - Apple Support

  • Black screen on startup Satellite A80

    I get a black screen at startup what is the problem and what is the solution for it? It might have something to do with the cold?

    Hi poly

    Please put more details on the problem, because it s not easy to say what has happened without any detailed information. You hear the operation of the HARD disk or fans?
    Switch you to other devices to display, before this problem occurs?
    Unfortunately it FN + F5 key combination doesn't work if the operating system has started so it could be a malfunction of the equipment. I don t think you can solve this problem by yourself. In this case, the only way is to contact the service.

  • Satellite A100 - black screen on startup

    For two days my laptop Toshiba A100-495 / model-No. PSAA9E-18F047GR / Y6065357Q with Windows XP SP3 serial shows a black screen at startup. There is still no picture Windows startup.

    The laptop is all starting, but after finishing and be ready for use, the screen is always black. When I am pressing Fn + F5 keys, the desktop appears.

    The black screen is only starting cold after stopping, not awareness of standby or pause.

    > When I am pressing Fn + F5 keys, the desktop appears

    It seems that the display output is set to external monitor
    You see the Toshiba start screen if the laptop is connected to the external monitor?
    Check it!

    In addition, I am agree with Akuma BIOS should be the default value.
    To access the BIOS F2 press while turning on the laptop. I hope that you can do this then press F9 for default settings and then exit the BIOS save settings.

  • After upgrading the bios to version 2.13 t430u, it freezes at black screen

    Hi all

    After upgrading my lenovo T430u bios to version 2.13 it freezes at a black screen, and windows does not load. My machine has windows 7 Professional and the only way to make it work is to reset the bios settings, but after awhile, it freezes at black screen and windows 7 does not load again and need to reset the settings of the bios once more. Hope someone of you gyus can help me with this since is very frustrating.

    Lenovo has released a BIOS updated for ThinkPad T430u that resolves customer reports of black screen after upgrading the BIOS.

    CHANGES IN THIS VERSION

    Version 2.15

    [Problem resolves]

    -Fixed a problem with the black screen after BIOS update

    -Fixed a problem with the gray screen when turn off Bluetooth in the BIOS Setup

    V2.15 BIOS can be downloaded here: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds031724

    Thank you

  • B540 TDR and black screen on startup

    Hi all, I bought a B540 in April a power works fine until end of July when it began to show the error "display driver has stopped working and has recovered." a few days later I let him (I have need as a wifi station to connect devices remove) and after a few hours of work, when I came back, the screen was off and there wa no way to turn it on. I press the power button for a few seconds to turn off the pc and he died. When I turned on, the computer started but the screen is off (not the 'lenovo' logo was shown on the eve) but everything else seemed to work (play plug/unpluging usb external hard drive the sound of the carachteristic). I turned off again and wait ten minutes before the market again, this time above the 'lenovo' logo was shown, but it seems that the pc failed to boot win 8. I unlplugged everything, removed the power cord, wait an hour and after that all started ok but the error message "display driver stop" was still there. After this date the computer randomly starts ok or with the screen. Given that I do not use it intensively Isuspected some windows update to cause this strange behavior and I'm trying to use a point of restoration, until July 17, but the problem was still there. Then I removed all recent windows update of June on, and I realized that in one case, it was not possible (i.e. the "remove/uninstall" button not showed that KB). I googled around and found the subject KB has been reported to broken system and the only way to react was to use a DOS command to reatore a new installation of the system. I did and actually everything works ok for 2 days (one day, I actually use the PC all day to upload stuff to iternet it to work). Unfortunately, after that day, everything seems to repeat: new 'pilot not resposinding to display' and a black screen at startup.

    Please consider that the system is quite new and clean (only 3/4 months of life) and everything works fine until end of July. What do you suggest me?


  • Power outage during Vista SP2 install; black screen on startup of the PC

    Hello-

    I have a PC desktop Gateway which is no longer start after a power failure has occurred during the installation of Vista SP2. The computer displays the progress at the bottom indicator, then, before that can display the login screen, the screen goes black, with a white cursor. CTRL-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Shift-Esc do nothing.

    I tried without success to the following:

    * Safe Mode/Safe Mode control guest - boots to black screen new
    * Startup Repair - told me there is nothing wrong
    * System Restore - tells me there is no available restore points
    * System restore the OEM DVD - can not find hard drive
    * Re-install this is disabled because I can't start Windows Vista-

    There are * all * options other than wiping the disc/lose all my data? The PC is in a remote area and backup drive is not an easy thing to achieve.

    The PC is no longer under warranty of the bridge, and I understand that Microsoft supports is no longer installs OEM of Vista.

    Can anyone help?

    Thank you

    -Andrew

    I can tell you how to make bootable disks, but you already have a disk.

    He has changed since good means of XP repair install from disk by booting from it.

    I would add that info to disk Bootable repair, just in case your DVD is a factory of one computer.

    http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-Vista.html

    It's Vista only repair installation option these days.
    It must be switched on!
    Not much use, is it!

    Good luck with it.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Download the ISO on the provided link and do a repair of the disc.

    Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

    At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu.

    When you have changed that, insert the Bootable disk you did in the drive and reboot.

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

    Above information shows what the process looks like and a manual, it load the repair options.

    NeoSmart containing the content of the Windows Vista DVD 'Recovery Centre', as we refer to him. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and is just a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, we could re-create this installation with downloadable media media freely from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK, several gigabyte download); but it is pretty darn decent of Microsoft to present Windows users who might not be able to create such a thing on their own.

    Read all the info on the website on how to create and use it.

    http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

    ISO Burner: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

    It's a very good Vista Startup Repair disk.

    You can do a system restart tool, system, etc it restore.

    It is NOT a disc of resettlement.

    And the 32-bit is what normally comes on a computer, unless 64-bit.

    See you soon.

    Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

  • S7: black screen on startup

    S7, barely a month.  Order last night, left pending, lid and power cord plugged in.

    Today he won't move beyond a black screen at startup.  Starts with the start screen "Acer Explorer beyond the limits" and then just black.  However, I can see the pointer of couse to the screen and it can move with touchpad and mouse.

    I rebooted several times, power cord unplugged, etc..  No luck.

    Looking, seems I'm not the only one with this problem.

    Come on Acer, I dropped a lot of money on this machine!  Help, please!

    Here's how I fixed my problem as described in my original post (for now, anyway):

    Unplug the power apparatus.  Open the cover; computer will power on but go to black screen.

    Power off button on the side, but leave the lid open.

    Then, with (2) lid open (1) the computer turned off and unplugged from power cord (3), press and hold the power button / stop for 30 seconds.  Computer will be quickly implemented on and then turns off quickly (you'll see the Acer logo startup screen, but he died before entering the black screen).  Keep holding the power button / stop through all this for 30 seconds.

    At the end of 30 seconds, the computer will be (should be) off the coast.   Remove your finger from the power button / stop.  Leave lid open during all this.

    With lid open, connect the power cable.  Press the power button / stop as you normally would (you are not holding it this time) to turn on.

    Computer should start normally.

    Worked for me; It may be useful if you encounter the same problem.  I said that it has something to do with static buildup.

  • Pavillion dv6 6b15ed: Driverupdate to fix the black screen at startup windows 10!

    Hello

    Question:

    Is there a new driver is released for my AMD Radeon HD card 6755 2? (double grafics)

    Because the latest driver causes a black screen at startup. Sequence: wenn turn on u see hp and that start-up logo win 10 after that it crashes on a black screen for about 2 minutes, then start 10. (about 2, 5 minutes later)

    I have now installed a windows 8 (issues) driver and windows starts in 6 seconds (with normal hard drive).

    I can't play the games but the bootspeed is good.

    So is there a fix or is there is 1 entry?

    TNX

    While the video card is not supported with the latest drivers.

    You can update as much if you want to, but isn't is not helping.

    Even in charge AMD said that this card is not supported with drivers.

    But today, I tried 1 times more, I used the old driver AMD_Display_13.352.

    With the first reboot, it was still black and some errors of the pilot, but after that the second quick start installation restarts!

    Appearance of the logo Windows 10 only 3 or 4 seconds and start immediately, without black screen and I got sound, video and video tube work as well.

    If other people having the same problem download Drivethelife and download the old pilot 13.352 and see for yourself.

    Make sure u delete all drivers previously installed with DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) of guru3d site.

    Almost forgot: I also disabled windowsupdate to prevend install other drivers (new).

    Greetings

  • black screen at startup and even on HDMI

    My hp pavilion dv7 gives me a black screen at startup and even if it is connected to my HDTV via HDMI. have tried several methods but still not working (the battery grip and long pressing the power button and then using the AC adapter to turn on). Can someone help me solve the problem please.

    Yances,

    Welcome to the forum.

    Have a look here:

    Provides the steps necessary to test the memory and the hard drive and restore the operating system if the laptop does not start and no error message is displayed.

    HP Notebook PC - troubleshooting black screen displays with no error message during startup or boot

    The next document implies that the system provides an Error Message:

    HP Notebook PC - troubleshooting on a black screen error Messages that may occur during Startup or start-up

  • Black screen at startup, unable to boot from the CD

    I did something wrong on my Thinkpad T43 2668, now I have Black Boot screen cannot Access IBM, can not press a function key, cannot start from the CD.  Here's what I did:

    1 got unwanted winxp sp3 updates automatic, then restored to the permeable point via Windows XP system restore, then, cannot start system; cannot boot from the Windows XP CD

    2 2 demarrer start from Linux Live CD, format hard drive and install ubuntu, hidden Partition of domain is not deleted, always there;

    3. can start Linux OS, but black screen on startup. There is no way to see what's happening at startup; Pressing a key of function or IBM bottons returns no result, always boot in Linux;

    4. cannot boot from any CD bootable legal except Ubuntu Live CD;

    5. no means of access Bios to set the boot sequence, therefore, cannot boot from USB floppy either.

    Advice is appreciated!

    PS. I tried Linux live CD some time ago before this trouble, click on "help me to boot from CD", got something installed. I guess it's something installed out of the box and that is why now I can boot from a Linux Live CD.


  • HP Pavilion g7 Notebook black screen at startup (freezing applications)

    Hey everybody,

    I use a laptop laptop HP Pavilion g7 running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64 - bit, 6.1 Build 7601).

    Processor: Intel Core i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53 GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz

    Memory: 4096 MB RAM

    I use this laptop for two years and this is the first time I have encountered this problem.

    The problem:

    Whenever I turn on my computer, it goes to start normally.  Before the connection with my user name appears, there is a pure black screen on during about 5 minutes before.  During this time, all I can see is my move move.  Whenever I can finally connect, I wait until it has finished start up and continue to open an application.

    Whenever I was able to open an application, it will run for about 3 minutes, but then everything freezes.  After the use of CTRL-ALT-DELETE, I see a message on a black screen that says "Failure to display security and stop options." He then told me to press ESC or press the power button.  If I press ESC, the laptop is still frozen. If I press the power button, I go through the same process over and over again.

    Even with the SafeMode (Networking), I get a black screen for a few minutes before being able to see my username on the login screen. Fortunately, Safe Mode works very well.

    I ran scans using Norton and Malbytes, found tracking cookies and malware and removed them, but my laptop is still the same.

    I don't know what to do. I hope someone can help me solve this problem.

    Thank you!

    Tsukiou,

  • Satellite P300 - black screen on startup

    Hey,.

    My book freezes the other day and then stop. Since he was unable to rebot. Are power and battery light and when I go to turn it on it lights up and will ether stay on for 5 seconds and turn off or stay on but always with a black screen.

    Anyone of you guys please help.

    Hello

    In your case, I would first check the memory modules.
    The point is that a faulty module would affect the startup process of laptop you would not be able to access the BIOS, if the modules are defective.

    You said that the laptop shut down it would mean that temperature is rising to a higher level and so the laptop turned off to avoid the equipment against damage

    In your case, all may be possible as I said; RAM should be checked initially, if the Rams are ok, then other parts like the CPU and motherboard must be verified
    I think you don't have much experience, and not enough resources to run tests and this is why I recommend to contact a technician. The professional guys could test parts and eventually could replace

  • NB550D - black screen on startup

    I have a NB550D who refuses to start after a black screen. I see a mouse pointer, but he won't go any further than that. I tried to boot into the Startup Repair, in safe mode and even tried to install a new copy of Windows from a USB key. Each time I was stopped at a black screen with a cursor.

    I tried removing the battery and now the button power for 30-60 seconds then reconnect. That did not work...

    I have no idea what to do now.

    HI Joonair,

    You can install Windows recovery media that you have created (USB stick or CD/DVD drive)? This recovery media contains an image of the factory settings and in general it is always possible to install the contents of the recovery media.

    If not it material s serious malfunctions or your laptop to check for an authorized service provider. Guys can do a professional diagnosis and exactly what is the problem exactly. :)

Maybe you are looking for