First Vista Problem!!

Fothsn · 13 Feb 2007 at 09:53

Looks like I’ve had my first major problem under Vista

This morning I turned the PC on went away for 5mins only to come back to a black screen (the pc was still powered on) strange I thought, restarted again seemed ok vista boot screen was loading then again a black screen, just at the moment before you see the orb.

Diagnose time I thought

restarted the PC selected safe mode again the same problem a black screen, then selected safe mode with networking and again a black screen

This is the point I am panicking wondering what’s happened to my lovely Vista install, I can’t work out what’s happened. Just a normal night last night, no software installs or drivers etc just was browsing the net & listening to music.

Any thoughts? Would love to fix this without having to format and restart over again it’s taken me a week to customise this OS.

Fothsn · 13 Feb 2007 at 10:20

Thanks for the reply Nismo

Before I had no waiting to see the orb after the boot screen, Vista boots fairly quick, I’ve just left the PC running now for 15mins and its still the black screen :confused:

so that’s ruled out not waiting long enough.

There’s nothing at all displayed just a black screen, although I can hear the HDD's clicking?

Fothsn · 13 Feb 2007 at 10:29

Nope no standby displayed, the monitor is receiving power from the graphics card which is just producing a black screen, (not a black screen as in the monitor is off if you get what I mean

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All the drivers installed are directly from windows update, which it installed these the day I installed Vista about a week ago.

Fothsn · 13 Feb 2007 at 10:39

the-void said:
Have you tried booting into Safe mode?

Void I’m not being funny but have you read my first post?

'Diagnose time I thought restarted the PC selected safe mode again the same problem a black screen, then selected safe mode with networking and again a black screen'

Yep booted into all 3 safe mode environments but still the black screen appears, looks like a repair or format is next

Fothsn · 13 Feb 2007 at 10:47

Yep sadly a reinstall looks certain, what’s the Vistas repair feature like? Would that keep all my docs, software & programmes etc?

Fothsn · 15 Feb 2007 at 15:11

Thanks for all the help & suggestions

I just chose to do a full format and reinstall, luckily I've got the Ultimate version none OEM so I can reuse my keys, I would have being stuck otherwise because id already activated.

The power saving feature I have now set to max and customised it so hopefully that won’t cause me any problems, I still cannot figure what happened :confused:

guess it’s just one of those unlucky bugs...

Edit: forgot to mention Ive got XP MCE on another HDD so I just booted up in MCE and recovered all my files/bookmarks etc, thats another lifeline