My Windows Vista computer displays a black screen with only a white arrow to the mouse cursor.

Similar Questions

• Computer has a black screen with a message "power off, then reinstall the jumper in normal mode position."

  Original title: black screen?

  My computer has a black screen with: turn off power and reinstall the jumper in normal mode position? Help!

  Hi Miguel C.
   
  a. What is the brand of your computer?
   
  b. do you remember of any changes to your machine before the question?
   
  I don't know what motherboard you have, but some is shipped with the 'Clear CMOS' jumper in the position unequivocally. Check the manual of your motherboard for this rider and make sure that it is in the normal position.
   
  J7B1 computer configuration jumper block requires a single rider set the configuration of the BIOS Setup utility. This allows the configuration in the configuration utility BIOS, including the frequency of bus and the processor motherboard speed.
   
  Note: Do not move this jumper with the computer turned on.
  
  Warning of the BIOS:
  BIOS change / semiconductor (CMOS) to complementary metal oxide settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.
   
  I think, you'd be best to contact the manufacturer of the motherboard as this seems to be a motherboard problem.
   
  Aziz Nadeem - Microsoft Support
   

  [If this post was helpful, please click the button "Vote as helpful" (green triangle). If it can help solve your problem, click on the button 'Propose as answer' or 'mark as answer '. [By proposing / marking a post as answer or useful you help others find the answer more quickly.]

• When I turn on Windows Vista, I get a black screen full of f zeros.

  Original title: zero screen

  When I turn on my system (Windows Vista) I get a black screen full of f zeros.

  Hi Lyndiatxaz,

  1. you receive the error codes?

  2 are you able to boot into normal mode after getting the black screen?

  3. have you made a recent software or hardware changes to the system?

  You can check with the following and see if it helps.

  Method 1:

  If you are unable to boot in normal mode, you can start your computer in last known good configuration.

  We can refer to the following article and try to use the last known good configuration and the control.

  Using the last good known Configuration

  Method 2:

  Step 1:

  Start your computer in safe mode and check if you can start.

  Step 2:

  If you are not faced with the question in safe mode, and then perform a clean boot and check.

  A clean boot to check if startup item or services to third-party application is causing this issue.

  You can read the following article to complete the clean boot.

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

  Note: After troubleshooting, be sure to set the computer to start as usual as mentioned in the article above to configure Windows to use a Normal startup state.

  For more information, you can also view the article

  What to do if Windows does not start correctly

• my windows vista computer is to download a lot of updates which will create the lack of disk space in my hard C drive? Please help...

  my windows vista computer is to download a lot of updates which will create the lack of disk space in my hard C drive? Please help...

  You already have disk cleanup?

  Please use this tutorial:
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76073-disk-cleanup.html

  The Atlantic tutorial has 2 parts:
  Step 1 to 11 is for the classic disk cleanup which will give you back some disc FEPs.
  Step 12 until the end (more), is to delete all except the most recent restore points. This will give bring you a ton of disk space.
  ATTENTION: Make sure that your computer works OK because you delete restore points.
  You have no past point to fall up to restore more new restore points are created.

• Windows 7 Pro 64 bit black screen with the mouse only on startup and nothing else

  Hi there, Windows 7 system recently froze on me when I tried to move a large file on a USB hard drive. I didn't was not able to close the file so I decided to stop my PC with the regular start-> Shut Down.

  Now when I try to turn on my computer, after the "starting Windows" and Microsoft report goes to a pure black screen with just a (mobile) mouse cursor, not keyboard commands or click right work (eg. ctrl + alt + delete does nothing).

  I tried to start in safe mode, safe mode with network, they do the same thing after the "Starting Windows" screen. Tried to boot with my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit installation disk so and entered commissioning repair - no problem. Tried system restore and it went successfully, however after clicking restart is again the same thing!

  It's really making me crazy, could someone please help me? I really want to reinstall Windows and lost my files (since I can't even in a form any Windows Installer interface I'm not able to do a repair).

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

  I will proceed to a re - install now, thanks anyway for your efforts

• Boots system to black screen with only the mouse pointer, ChkDsk finds the same mistakes every time, but does not drive.

  My system has the latest updates installed, but it has not restarted when a power failure occurred.  System ran file check at startup and started to only black screen with the mouse.  Sticky Keys dialog box and file sharing is just what works.  System Restore find restore points, but fails with errors.  System repair find anything wrong.  ChkDsk /f and / r always produce the same result with about 30 files deleted from the index, and then these same files recovered orphans.

  I cloned the drive to another and get the same results.

  All modes of security also start to black screen.  CTRL-ALT-DELETE, CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, WIN-E, etc.  do not work.  Only 5xSHIFT brings a dialog of the keys sticky.

  Via a command prompt I can read and write files & folders on the boot partition as if nothing is wrong.  Same thing with shared files on the network.

  I asked about this on the forum to update and have no solutions.  Could someone please help?

  Thanks in advance.

  BestPartyBand,
  I'm sorry to hear that none of the solutions that we offered was able to solve your problem.  I know how very it can be frustrating to have to start all over again with a clean system, especially with the amount of work you have put in get your network configuration.  I have not found anything that could solve your problem without reformatting, unfortunately.  I didn't want to point to one of the articles I sent you a link to (when you start a Windows Vista-based computer, the system may stop responding (hang) at a black screen.)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/946532 this article talks about the corruption of system files in the $Txf directory. This corruption causes a situation of deadlock between the Transactional NTFS (TxF) and the automatic verification process.  I think that is what has happened on your drive hard when the crash occurred.  Here is a good article about this in detail that you might find interesting technically: transactional Ntfs and loss of data
  http://www.articlesbase.com/data-recovery-articles/Transactional-NTFS-and-data-loss-778234.html

  I hope that it works for you, let us know if we can help you.
  Thank you
  ) Gloria
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Black screen with only the mouse pointer

  I just bought a Toshiba with Windows 7 laptop. Black screen with the mouse cursor after a few minutes of no use.  It seems to be the activity of the laptop but nothing happens even with a Control Alt Delete. I noticed after like 20 minutes, the windows screen comes back on.  Any ideas to solve this problem.

  Hello

  Since there seems to be a fairly new computer, you should check with the seller and the support from Toshiba
  for possible replacement and/or warranty repairs. Remember that do you more that they can
  It's something that you don't.

  Check with Toshiba support, their books online and the drivers and their known forums
  questions.

  Toshiba - Forums
  http://laptopforums.Toshiba.com/

  Toshiba - Contacts
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/support/JSP/navShell.jsp?CF=su_contact

  Toshiba - drivers - access your model
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/support/JSP/home.jsp?NAV=download

  Toshiba - Support
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/support/JSP/home.jsp

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

  If you want to solve the problem:

  Why my screen is black when I start Windows 7?
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/why-is-my-screen-black-when-i-start-Windows-7

  References to Vista also apply to Windows 7.

  No registration necessary data and re - install Windows 7 might be the best option, but here are a
  few others.

  You can save your files by putting the drive in another computer or an external hard drive enclosure, then
  saving them. Do this using several methods to redundantly. Of course, a real computer
  Shop or the manufacturer of your system can help to recover the files.

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

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

  Another method to try to get to the desktop (try in normal Windows Mode without failure)
  is CTRL + ALT + DEL and the processes tab find EXPLORER.exe and END PROCESS on it.
  then on the tab Applications - lower right - new task - the type in EXPLORER.exe. Safe mode is
  accessible 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 hotfix is usually a hit or miss
  base. That there is no information on a black screen as there is just a blue screen
  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 of 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 window 7 disk? You can try restoring the system to it. If you do not have the
  discs, your system manufacturer will sell them at low prices. Or try in safe mode if you can get
  it.

  How to do a system restore in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

  You can create a recovery disc or someone else use same version (to do the system restore
  It only needs to be bootable).

  How to create a Windows 7 system repair disc
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

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

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

  Try the Startup Repair tool-

  What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

  How to start on the System Recovery Options in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

  Try Repair Options recovery or a Windows 7 boot disk system

  How to run a startup repair in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/681-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.

  If nothing works, you can do a repair installation.

  How to start on the System Recovery Options in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

  How to do a repair installation to repair Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.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 - do not type)
  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 Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Bike - Mark Twain said it right.

• Windows Vista does not boot, black screen after "windows loading files...". »

  I have a laptop HP Pavilion dv2000, it came with windows vista, so I don't have a boot disk. When I try to start it, it will say "windows loading files...". "with a bar, once the bar is loaded it will say microsoft Corp. (with the copyright symbol) and another bar with a bar made up of three small bars of loading through it, once that is done, it will show a black screen. I have installed recent updates and I can't access the restore mode or security system.

  Hello

  The possible fix is the same that you can not boot the system currently.

  You need to make a computer repair/restore on another disc, borrow a friends Windows disk.
  or buy one from the manufacturer of the system. See the methods in BOLD above which also shows how
  a repair/recovery disk which is bootable.

  It may not be repairable by a user and the help of a real store of the computer (no leeks and peaks at)
  a BestBuy or other BigBox stores) or Support from HP is required.

  Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Bike - Mark Twain said it right.

• Computer Dell Vista goes to a black screen with a cursor blinking while booting

  I've been on the internet on my Dell computer that it has stopped working altogether I turn the computer off the wrong way, and not when I tried to reboot, it goes to the bios screen that turns black with a flashing _ crusor. I tried pressing F8 etc, but it does not work. Anyone know what I need to do?

  Original title: I need help! My dell doesn't work anymore

  Hello

  See if that helps you.

  "How to run Dell 32-bit Diagnostics utility"

  http://support.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?docid=52057

  "The computer does not start in Microsoft Windows Vista"

  http://support.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?docid=DSN_343119&isLegacy=true

  If nothng fix it, you can reinstall Vista.

  Reinstall using the internal recovery Partition.

  http://support.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?c=us&l=en&s=Gen&docid=DSN_336966&isLegacy=true

  Reinstall using the Dell recovery disk.

  http://support.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?c=us&CS=19&l=en&s=DHS&docid=DSN_339949&isLegacy=true

  Reinstall will wipe all data from the hard drive.

  See you soon.

• Windows Vista won't load - black screen each laptop time starts

  I have a Dell Insipron 1525, which does not load Windows Vista.

  I can't go past the Recovery Manager screen every time you start, and although I tried all the options available, it does not open in safe mode or normally.

  I tried the system restore (even if it says that it cannot find valid 'points'), as well as the repair of the system, and I have also run the Diagnostics, who said there is no error (although I could not see the final report). All paths lead ultimately to the black screen and although I can see and move the cursor, it is that I can get. Any ideas please?

  Thank you very much!

  Hi ZD_123,

  ·         Did you the latest changes on the computer?

  ·         You receive an error message?

  I suggest you follow the provided article and check if it helps.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/946532

• Windows displays a black screen with cursor after the installation of updates

  I leave the official updates of Microsoft doing their thing last night before closing and I woke up today to see a black screen greeting me after that I entered my password on the start screen. The only thing that appears is HP Coolsense. No program, no nothing. It's just a wonderful black screen. The world how this issue fixed?

  Hello bean,.

  Thanks for posting your question on the forum of the Microsoft community.

  I would like to know some information about the problem so that we can help you better.

  What is the brand and model of your computer?

  Thank you for details on the issue.

  This problem may occur because of corrupted display driver. I suggest you to update the display driver of

  your computer and check if it helps. Please follow these steps:

  a. press the keys Ctrl + Alt + Delete , and then click Task Manager.

  b. click on 'file' and then click on "new task".

  (c) in the immediate window, type explorer.exe , and then click on ok.

  d. Office should appear. Otherwise, in the immediate window, type devmgmt.msc , and then click on ok.

  e. the device manager should open.

  f. expand 'graphics', right click on the display device, click "Update driver software", and

  Follow the on-screen instructions.

  After update display driver, you can correct the screen resolution using the following steps:

  a. right click on the desktop, and then click screen resolution.

  b. in the 'resolution', select the recommended resolution.

  c. click apply and ok.

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thank you

• Tool text displays a black screen with strength parameters of GPU

  Hey everybody,

  When I go to use the text tool, I can't go beyond adding a custom project text. A screen example:

  

  I was wondering if someone could reproduce. The steps are:

  • Create a new project by typing '+' in the middle left. (Create all the dimensions.) TAP "OK".
  • TAP, '&,' top-right, and then type, "text".
  • Tap the text input field in the lower left corner.
  • Tap anywhere once fact. You might find yourself with a screen that I have above.

  Tapping on the icon 'back' in Android just me nets a completely black screen and will not leave PS touch as he normally does. I have to use the home screen icon and by sweeping PS touch of my running applications to launch PS touch and make it work properly again.

  I have not tried uninstalling/reinstalling immediately; want to see if someone can repro first.

  Using a Motorola Xoom with Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and PS button 1.4.1 (Wi - Fi model).

  Post edited by: ibarrien

  Hello

  did you by chance a force on GPU in your development settings?

  Thank you

  Ignacio

• T satellite - black screen with only the mouse icon

  Hello

  I have a recurring problem in my Toshiba.
  Suddenly after a few updates of Microsoft PC does not start.

  It appears in the login screen just the icon the mouse, nothing else.
  Tried the windows recovery console, but no luck.

  My only solution was the Toshiba recovery image.
  This is the second time already, I get this problem.

  Everything else works fine. Any idea?

  Sorry I put t understand this: + he appears to just the mouse icon login screen, nothing else. +

  What mouse icon that you see?
  You see the Toshiba start screen while turning on the unit?
  Is the system starts up or how you see the mouse icon (whatever that should mean)?

• Double black arrows as the mouse cursor

  I changed the batteries on my wireless mouse and now my cursor has changed to a black arrow with two ends. I can move it arrow the screen but it doesn't do anything when I click it.  Is not not able to click makes it more difficult to turn on for me, because I don't know very many shortcuts to access the Panel of control etc.

  any help would be appreciated

  Thank you

  Hey Saenz1948,

  I understand that you have a problem with the cursor shows something different from what you are accustomed. I can try to help you.

  Now say you that's not click on anything in its use. I would recommend that you look in your Mac restarts. I know that you don't know a lot of shortcuts for your Mac, but everything you would need to press East of command-control-button / stop. These same keys together will close the application and restart your Mac. Once you have restarted your Mac, you should see that the cursor is returned to normal.

  Take a look at the articles below. The first might exceed the different sliders, you might see and the other might exceed the shortcuts that you can use for your Mac.

  OS X El Capitan: pointers in OS X
  https://support.Apple.com/kb/PH21878

  Mac keyboard shortcuts
  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201236

  Take it easy

• Re: Satellite L300 - black screen with flashing white cursor

  All of a sudden my laptop won't start more. It turns on, displays screen toshiba for a second and then goes to a black screen with a blinking white line in the upper left corner. I can't type something here! The last time I used it it was 100% very well, I have not downloaded anything so I'm very curious to what it might be.

  Help, please!

  Hi mate,

  Maybe something messed up to the top of your Windows installation and if the computer may start t more or your HARD drive becomes faulty...

  You can access the BIOS? If so, check if your HARD drive is recognized. If so I think that it of necessary to reinstall Windows. Therefore, take the Toshiba recovery disc.