PC boots to a black screen.

Schism · 7 Jul 2010 at 22:49

Hey all

Turned on my PC this morning, and after the final loading bar on Vista, it just settled on a black screen. So I turned it on and off a few times, then decided to reset the CMOS. Still didn't work until I kept trying it and eventually it worked.

I just got back in again, and I'm having the same problem and haven't yet been able to load it to my desktop.

Any ideas of what this could be? The PC is still under a year old!

Cheers

Philtor · 8 Jul 2010 at 07:59

Fire in your Vista disk, boot from it and select 'repair your computer' then select startup repair. If you have no joy with this then perhaps try a system restore which can be done from within the same menu under repair your computer.

Schism · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:45

philtorrens said:
Fire in your Vista disk, boot from it and select 'repair your computer' then select startup repair. If you have no joy with this then perhaps try a system restore which can be done from within the same menu under repair your computer.

Cheers for the reply mate.

I've already done a system restore, didn't help the matter, I managed for it to load up once, but not had any joy, and then I can't even insert a disc while the PC is booting up because the disc tray won't open up

Reebro · 9 Jul 2010 at 02:17

I have this issue on my HP Mini and as I don't have a ROM drive I can't repair it until I get the chance to make a bootable FlashDrive install. I am only able to access windows when pressing F8 to load into the boot menu and then selecting "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" that may let you boot to the desktop if you're able to repair there.

Sweey · 9 Jul 2010 at 08:00

It probably isn't this but:

Do you have a two display outlets connected to the graphics card? This is a problem I ran into once when my PC (during a botched upgrade of drivers) decided to see my TV as the main display and my monitor as the second display which was set to "off".