I have the solution for all of you it is the video drivers from Microsoft update see HP makes custom Nvidia drivers for the the video cards in their computers and windows update will update the drivers to a newer version just because it has the same driver number for that device now if u get the update from Hp's support site you should be fine because i had the same problem when i was working on a customer's laptop, to solve this problem make sure that you configure windows update not to install anything unless you check it yourself manually and always check your details as to what Vista's windows update has to install.
I'm sure that for me was not a driver problem: i changed nothing about video drivers and get the problem solved. There are special functions that have to be coded into it which nVidia don't bother with. They probably release core updates to the OEMs then they release their own versions hence why you don't see it on the nVidia website.
Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted December 28, Also with the latest, official, HP-drivers. He uses a Wireless Internet-connection.
After boot-up everything is working properly and speedy, it's just this boot-thingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options I was thinking on these videocard-drivers, M GS, as well.
Posted December 28, edited. Edited December 28, by brayan Posted December 29, Raa Posted December 29, Have you got UAC disabled, or otherwise changed? So the disabling of TMM can be used as a workaround. Is this issue also know at HP as far as you guys know?
And if so, is there a fix on its way? Hope you can advise me. Everything at boot was working fine, i entered windows xp not a very recent laptop and everything ok. I also configured to get a Bios access password as a hardisk password as I had before, and I think this configuration was lost because the cmos battery charge was low.
After that everything worked ok. I did not changed the cmos battery yet. This message appeared sometimes, and more repetitive. I made the same configurations and everything was running ok i could go into windows xp as before. So what i did was to remove the keyboard but not disconecting it from de mobo so i could have access to de CMOS battery as other stuff like RAM, wifi card, etc. The CMOS battery has no cables and is easily removed with a flat screwdriver. So i removed it that way and took it to radioshack to change it for a new one.
The battery type is CRxxxx something and is from Enercell Renata battery. Bought the new battery and installed it back home. After that i power my laptop on, and nothing apeared on the screen, i cant here any beep sound eihter. When opening the laptop to acces de CMOS battery i always disconected it from the power cable but i confess that i did not disconected de rechargable battery not cmos battery but the big one. Could you help me with some advice? Sure i wrote a lot for this, but i guess that any info is helpfull to identify the problem.
Any advice in how to solve it? It would be much appreciated and thanks in advanced. Hi, alas my screen as sucumbed to the black screen as well. Mine went like this: I was on facebook when i clicked a friend, and then everything just froze, like not just the internet but the whole computer,could not get the start panel up or enything, so I hit the reset button on my tower, next thing i know black screen. I left it for a couple of hours and came back to it and still the black screen, but this time I heard noises coming from it, like the windows startup sound, then i typed in my password on the black screen and I heard it let me on my file, but the screen was still black, i reset again, this time there was a white line in the top left corner of the screen blinking, then the windows repair thing came up and said start windows normally, so i did, nothing happened but yet another black screen.
This is extremly frustrating and i would love to here a fiz without having to pay for it, Thank you! I have tried taking the ram out of my computer, first 1 stick, this broght up the normal screen about america megatrends press f1 to continue bla bla bla, so i hit f1 and the screen went black and stayed black.
I would say that this has something to do with a startup file. You should put your Windows seven disc in and try to do a boot sector repair. Lance: Sounds like a memory problem. But what did you do with the memory. Did you just take one stick out and try one by itself?
Yep I tried the one stick at a time and no dice. It had an aftermarket liquid cooling system installed on it to replace air cooling which got his room a bit too toasty. Whenever I press the power button, the computer tower turns all its lights and fans on, but the mouse, keyboard, and monitor do nothing.
The only way for one of the components to install is to have a clean restart, not botched like mine has been. ALSO, the shutdown sequence sometimes nears infinity as the giant tries to quiet down.
Omg thank you so much…. I had a USB on my computer and u said to take it out so thank u…ur a lifesaver. My laptop has the no beep, black screen issue. However every 10 seconds or so it just reboots itself and keeps that cycle going till I manually shut it down.
Sounds like the motherboard. What do you think? The laptop is a few years old but rarely ever used. I also tried a hard reset, removed the battery and tried straight from a plug.
Any ideas what it is so I can replace it? My eee pc just up and did the same thing yesterday. In my case, I had the eeepc for 1 year now, but it is out o waranty. The problem occured yesterday morning and at one point I was able to restart the computer and it would bot normally, but within a few moments the screen would freeze and I would be forced to shutdown.
After shutting down the last time, it no longer has booted up and I will be trying a few things to hopefully diagnose or fix the problem.
It might be the LCD is broken which is unfortunately a common problem with asus, or possible the ram or some ohter hardware component, being that I was able to boot up and access info ok when it first happened. How to slove this problem. I literally unplugged it and plugged it back into the power source and it was still running. I tried everything. I even tried holding down the power button for 5 minutes and nothing still happened. When i started my emachine acer em this morning it was not typing properly.
First of all, on the XP login screen, when I tried to type anything, instead of one character or dot, in the password space , the entire space is filled up with that one character up until the character limit. I tried taking the battery out and now all i am getting is a black screen, i can hear the power is on the fans are running and i have a blue light on the power button, but the power button is not turning it off, i have to take the battery to get it to power off.
This just happened to me when accidentally hit standby in XP. I was in process of underclocking a GT video adapter with nTune and RivaTune, and thought that may have been corrupted as well. Also fortunately, everything had been backed up. System is stable after that. A bit more info — on the multi-boot system, the problem also occurred with warm-boot restart attempts from Windows 7 bit and bit partitions on a separate physical drive.
The common denominator was either the video or mobo BIOS, or a hardware failure. In my case, it was the mobo BIOS. Several internet posts link standby problems with ACPI settings.
This may have triggered the problem in the first place. Set it only stop CPU activity leaving video card powered up to hopefully avoid problem in future. BIOS images are keyed to particular manufacturers and models, and may not be readily available from your manufacturer or sites like TechPowerUp. Keep data on a separate partition so that you can restore your OS partition without losing it.
Good old Ghost DOS version works perfectly for me. Thanks, Mitz for this thread. It is a great help in solving a difficult problem. The points made and comments here helped me to resolve my case. Hi Rick, Thanks to the fantastic information! It sounds like you really mess around with your computer a lot. I have an hp g60 wm.
On syartup the screen remains black and ican not do anything with it. When I put it in a very cold place say the freezer for 30 min to an hour,It will power on and works just fine for 20 to 30 min. Can someone please tell me what i can do? Which part of the computer are you putting in the freezer?
Usually when you have a bad hard drive and you want to get the data off it you can put it in the freezer and it will be okay to use for about 20 min. My friend believes its the AVG problem with windows vista and my father believes its the hard drive. I am thinking that you have damaged the boot sector on your hard drive. This will stop Windows from loading or even seeing a sign of it.
If you have an operating system CD, I would put it in and do a repair. Depending on what version of Windows you have it will repair the computer for you.
However if it is the boot sector of your hard drive which makes it a bootable device, then you need to get to a command prompt in order to repair this.
When i click on any of the safe modes weird numbers in white come on my computer…when i click on configuration or start window mormal…it comes to Windoes xp and its loading but it continues. Hi, thanks so much for this guide. I think I have a problem not previously covered, though I have not gone through all the comments. Hi Lia. I just bought an Eee PC, and within 8 hours of having it, it presented this exact problem.
I immediately got an RMA from Newegg, and it is being replaced. I have a T Eee PC. It just powers on, no post and the hard drive whirls down after several seconds. I hope you and I get an answer.. Thanks for your tips. I just opened some covers on the back of my laptop, and made sure all parts were tightly fastened, and then my computer were back to normal again from being black screen.
Just like something never occurred. It was magic. Thanx also Microsoft for Windows 7. After a couple of restarts I was able to get into BIOS and reset the original configurations and start up windows normally. I tried switching around my RAM, cleaning the inside, resetting my agp video card, resetting CMOS, switching power cables, pressing any and all buttons but nothing seems to work.
I can hear the fans running and I can see the keyboard light up when I power up but after that, nothing. Can somebody please help? Can you get into bios still?
It sounds like you have a problem with either your internal battery on the motherboard ie near dead…or you have a monitor cable not in right or some confusion there. Check all cables and display cards for good connection. Thanks Mitz for responding. I have also switched cables and made sure they are all in correctly but still nothing and I tried removing the cmos battery for 30 sec but still nothing. Hi, I just got my computer back from cops, they confiscated it last November, Now when i try to turn on my Computer all the light were on, and fans are running, but i see no light in my keyboard or even my mouse, the monitor suppose to have Blue light, but when i turn on my computer it gives no display, and an Orange light SLEEP , the fans are sort of revving up while its turned on, i tried to open the case and clean it, i tried to remove the video card and put back again did it in the mem cards too, i also tried to remove all the cables and check and put it back, Still i get no display and no signs of controls.
Hmm sounds interesting! An amber light can mean a power issue. Power supplies can die after not being used or moved around. The next bad news is that it could be your motherboard. Hopefully a bad connection or bent pin..
I see control lights on the keyboard and can hear the fan running, nothing else. Less than a year old? I would take it back as most laptops have 1 year standard warranty!
I would not touch anything if it has warranty. I had it working good yesterday but this morning upon turing pc on i had tons of squiggly lines of color on both the tv and the monitor so i used the power button and restarted it and got less squiggly lines and looked like it was going to come up but it went hay wire again with the cursor looking like a box and i could bairly see some programs under the squigly lines doing crazy stuff too; so i used the power button again and the next time it just went to a black screen.
Please help and advise how to save my data. Hi Keith It sounds like there was a screen resolution conflict but I am not sure if incorrect shut could have caused something else now…. You can also try pushing the Fn key on your keyboard with the F5 or F6 key to refresh resolution. Sometimes this works. The restore went successfully, until the Boot-up, when i go the VAIO logo, but then the screen went black, with no cursor, no sound.
Having the hard drive not plugged in should be ok…as it only has files you backed up…. Or were you actually restoring from there? I had one computer come up with the black screen. It was old and we decided to replace it. When I got the second computer all was fine. I did put my old hard drive as a secondary drive into the new computer. All was fine for weeks and now it is doing exactly as the first. It will not boot. No beeps when I turn it on. I unplugged the second hard drive and still nothing.
What could be causing this? It could have been the problem if you had an existing virus on the old hard drive and then connected it to the new computer.
Could this have been the problem? Do you think my graphic card needs replacing? This simple reason can cause files to become corrupt because they were not packed away in time. You said that you logged in to 1 account and then had a black screen. Therefore this means that you got to the login screen of Windows. So use saw this screen and you typed in the pass word, is this correct? This site is very good but unfortunately I still fail to identify the problem.
I own a dell a quite old model and after i dropped it on the floor the screen light just went darker and darker and for a while I saw nothing but now I can see, but one vey weak because the screen light is off. So there is no POST codes or anything. What can I do? Hi Elsa, Dropping your laptop does not help! Obviously there could be any number of problems caused by this. One of them might be that you have ruined your laptop screen.
You can test this out by connecting your laptop to a computer screen or TV that allows computer connections. If your laptop boots up normally when plugged in to another monitor then you know it is the screen that needs to be replaced. After I switch on my Sony Vaio laptop it starts but screen is blank. Doing control alt delete I can see all processes are running. In time about 20 m icons and task bar begin to appear while the connected to net icon the last to appear.
Then lap top works fine. Some time if I am switching it off says hibernating mode. This happened after I bought a top of the range roller in flight bag that was well stacked so I am reluctant to believe it may be the cause. How to rectify it? Then I would press on the button all link that says to start a new process. You can also try restarting your computer in safe mode, fully letting it load, and then shutting it down again.
Is it the same? So you got to task manager, saw the new task button, clicked on it and typed in the new task explorer. Is this what you did? Then in new task enter explorer. The lap top begins to work.
I still cannot see connected to wireless icon though mails download, I can log into QQ but when I click to open browser nothing happens till about 15 to 20 min later the connected to wireless icon appears and then the browser page appears. If I try to go to network connection to see if I am on wireless nothing happens till about 15 to 20 M later I get to see connected icon i.
Hi I have a HP Pavilion DV and I was working on my laptop and the screen suddenly froze then I was not able to do anything even with the keyboard and such. I decided to turn the laptop off by holding the power button, it turned out this was not a good idea as I got a black screen with no cursor or anything but the fan and disc driver seem to be working fine.
I then got annoyed so I started experimenting and found that if I hit ctrl alt del it would just restart the laptop and one time I started spammed enter as it got to the point that I really got angry I got the windows vista sound before you can log in. Then it seem that I was able to get in one of the accounts but it still have a black screen. Would really appreciate your assistance. If your computer is booting and you nearly got into Windows, this means that there is a problem with Windows.
Have you tried pressing F8 when you start your laptop and going to a boot menu to choose safe mode? Also you can try putting your system disk in and doing a repair. This is not a full format because there is a repair option there. An orange or yellow light can sometimes mean lack of power or a dead motherboard. These are the most common possibilities.
In this case the things to try are to try another power supply to run your computer. You can also view your motherboard and make sure there are no Bent pins or obstructions. Hi I am right now using a Window Vista.
When I start up my computer a black screen comes up and there is not Start menu or nothing there is only a box which delete things and loads up programs like the internet or other. But How do i take away the black box and how do i bring back my desktop background and start button? I had a virus which I just took away. Everything is set up right and is running right. But please reply and tell me how to fix this. Thank you. Obviously the it is a damaged file or an unwanted registry entry.
Click on the winlogon folder Now in the right hand panel click on shell. The data value should only be explorer. On this site I read that the keyboard could be the trouble. I changed keyboard and now all OK. My laptop is HP dv7 windo 7 OS. Just this morning,my screen suddenly when i hit the power button only to see my screen went black.
Please do you have any Solution to this problem because its really pissing me off and i need to do my assigment with it. Looking forwarding to receiving your swift respond. It shows something says launch startup repair and start windows normaly i choose the firdt then it freezes for 2 sec and then goes black plz help cuz i will lose alot of important stuff on my laptop and im currently using my phone.
Hi,i have the same problem and I took the battery off and I did all this things. Please help? My computer has a black screen. I got into safe mode but the computer still shows a black screen. I tried to install Windows XP but still a black screen. Is my computer dead or is there anything else I could do?
Thank you! I have a optiplex gx running windows xp. I got a virus called security tool. I tired removing by following others instructions to put my computer in safe mode and remove it that way. When I put it in safe mode my computers screen went blank and the monitor wont come on. The computer boots up but dont beep. Could the virus of knocked out my drivers?
Any help will be appreciated. Hi there The virus would have not only damaged files but may not be removed entirely. Removing viruses is not easy as they are very sneaky. I would not feel safe until I had reformatted my computer after having a virus.
Hello Mitz. My Toshiba laptop is about five months old. Last night, however, I left my computer running for about maybe an hour and a half and returned to it to find only the background—absent of the taskbar and the icons.
I tried restarting the computer but ended up with a black screen. I have even tried setting a restore point but nothing seems to be helping: the icons and taskbar appear only briefly and then I am left with just the background or a black screen again. If your laptop is only six months old can you take it back to your place of purchase? If not, have you got an operating system CD to insert and do a repair. Did you try leaving it sit for an hour to cool off and then trying again? Take out the battery and unplug it for 30 minutes, then try again.
Can you f8 into safe mode? Do you get an error message when you try to open task manager, or does it just do nothing? Oh, what shall I do? My Dad would kill me if he found out its broken! Hook up another monitor to it to see if it is actually working. There is a blue monitor plug at the back. If it works then you know something is wring with the screen.. Maybe you could make sure the memory and hard drive are in place. I do not recommend going into laptops further than this though.
While you have it open you might as well check the ram and video card and everything else you see. Hello I have a question about this. My computer is at the stage with the one flashing cursor and this happened right after I allowed an upgrade. I saw this screen for maybe a split second if that, then my PC restarted automatically and then the flashing cursor with the black screen appeared. Do you have a good idea what this means and how I am able to fix this?
Do you still have the problem…If you can get to the command prompt.. Jennie: Hi there It seems you have found your problem. Definitely backup your files first…Clean up your computer and maybe do some maintenance. Even a clean format will help. Then I would put things back one at a time.
And in between restart the computer and make sure it is working…. Also when installing the printer, make sure the driver is for the Operating system you have…If the driver is for windows seven and you have XP then this is not good..
Hi I posted a few days ago and appreciated your feedback. I have made a little progress but need some more guidance …. I uninstalled the printer software and reinstalled just the basic driver making sure it was for my operating system. I still have the same problem of booting to a black screen when the printer is connected via usb.
Unplug the printer and it boots fine, plug it in, boots to black screen. When I press esc at boot up, it shows the printer on the list of bootable devices. A little research shows this is a problem with this particular printer, but hp has done nothing to solve or acknowledge the problem.
Hi Mitz. I looked at a lot of sites about this, yours is the best. I got a black screen at boot, no beeps, no safe mode, would not boot from disc 5year old hp desktop with XP. I unplugged all unnecessary peripherals, including the new hp printer I installed a couple days ago, and now it boots. So where should I go from here?
Call hp about why the new printer might cause a crash? Also note that the computer has been running slower lately, not multitasking well, fan running often.. Ok my computer works fine after i unplugged unnecessary parts.
I think mycomp was acting up cause i didnt restart for the windows update. Thanks mitz. I cant go to safe mode but i can go to BIOS.
Idk which is OS cd i only hv 3 cds that came with this computer. I dont think tthat when my keyboard doesnt work has to do with my computer not work plus it stops working after the blinking underscore disppear and i was just pointing out that my keyboard didnt work.
Lemme saythis again. My computer basically turns on shows a pic thts msi motherboard. Then it usually goes to windows vista logo then account login. After a minute or so it goes to a blank black screen, no underscore and keyboard doesnt work, i hv left my computer on from this state to see if it just needs time. It never showed the windows vista logo or account login menu. I do not see a cursor orr anything. Have you tried to get into safe mode as you said you see the MSI pic…?
If you cannot, what about putting the OS cd in and trying a repair…Also have you unplugged everything that is not needed…devices and addons. Yes i hv but no flashin cursor just blinkin underscore then it disappeared nd keyboard doesnt work bc num lock didnt change when i press it. Edward: Hey did you see this article about a black screen with a flashing cursor? My computer is running on a vista. My computer turns on and shows this pic i always get, its msi motherboard thing then it goes to a black screen with a white blinking underscore.
After a while it goes black totally, not turned off though and my keyboard doesnt work after it just goes black. No beeps. I think its the power or ram but idk what to do. I tried reseating my ram a lot of times and reseating videocard then everything else bu no hope. I used a air duster spray to blow away the dust.
I have a story just before my computer didnt work. Its to lng to type it right now on this touch screen phone. If your computer is set to boot to your hard drive first then it is not finding your hard drive. If your computer is set to boot to your CD first then it seems that it is looking to see if there is a CD in the drive and then moving on to the hard drive which does not exist or is damaged.
Have you got an operating system CD? Can you put this CD in your drive and go to system recovery? My problem involves many problems 1. Fan stays on for as long as you leave the pc on with screen off 3. Last time my computer crashed was a long time today it happened again it did not crashed but my screen was different colors and no choice but to press the button.
To rebot the pc manualy. Hello Walter, It sounds like you have a few problems there, but the first thing I would do is try and other monitor and maybe another keyboard. I would also be looking for some kind of bent pin or hardware problem that is causing this. My problem was related to this one….. Leaving a bootable usb flash drive connected to your computer. When your computer has a black screen from doing this and you realize this is the problem and remove the USB, the computer just continues to boot normally..
I have a Dell optiplex and it started to be slow and hard to get internet I tried to get my putter into a prvious date and the screen became all black, however the mouse is working, first I change monitors but same thing, second I tried to open all the possible safe modes but ended up the same, tried to put the original windows vista disk and the drivers disk with f-8 but still have the same results: a black screen with the mouse working, any help?
IF your computer slowed down and was hard to use the Internet, then this could possibly mean that you have a virus. In this case you would need to work on the virus. What do you mean when you say disk drivers fix all pass? What i mean is likesay i didnt have my moniter pluged in it would say no connecting or no signal but my computer would start as if nothing was wrong no beep code nothing just a simple and normal start up maybe my video card?
I had a non-bootable external hard drive plugged in with my default configuration to boot from usb and forgot to unplug before restarting. Hi Amber It looks like some system files are damaged from not shutting it down nicely! I would try that first. This way you will not have to install everything again. Which Windows do you have? Hi i have a probelm with my computer its a desktop a older computer i had a loe memory hard drive in it then i wanted to put a highier one in but when i did i got black screen but after that happened i tried to put my other hard drive back in and i still have black screen when i start my system it will start fine tge fans will kick on uy will soud like iylts running fine but my monitier sys that there is nothing to be shown im puzzled cause im nit sure what i did.
Can you help me? Does this mean it is showing you a message or is there nothing there at all? Hey there. I was just using my computer when a messege came up saying I had a severe virus. It told me to restart my computer which I did but now it simply is a black screen with a flashing Horizontal line in the top left.
I have tried un plugging and restarting several times but nothing works. Please may I have some advise on the situation? I think maybe you are right about it not being able to handle the size, I am seriously considering just buying a new computer.
Do you know how I could check if my PSU and graphics card are compatible with a new computer? I went through and i still cant figure out whats wrong with my pc. My problems started a week ago, windows got stuck while its loading and after restarting several time with the same problem i went to system recovery through the first blue screen and everything was fine.
Gogetassj Does your card meet what the games needs or is your power supply rated to handle the Vid card at max draw?
Is there a fan on your graphics card and is it working? I put both the graphics card and power supply into my computer, only to find that the grpahics card was not compatible even though it fit into my PCI-e slot. I removed it and tried again now the only change was the PSU. To my relief it started, but I did not have the monitor plugged in, so I could not see if the screen was working there was also a very high pitched squeal, that only happened this time i booted. I then proceeded to plug everything back in and run the system repair function the computer gave me the option to run.
In a little while when I came back, my screen was black. I attempted to turn it on again, but it would not work. I removed the PSU and tried the old one, but to my dismay, now the fans would not even work and the black screen is still present. Hi Diego Was the cpu compatible with your motherboard.
Could it handle the size? Also did you try the old power supply again or is that dead? I have a Dell Inspiron with Vista. I turned it on the fan is blowing all the lights are on but the screen is black. Any suggestions? Can anyone help me please.. You haven't said which version of Vista you have. Thank you again for your reply. I have Home Premium and I unistalled the Norton trial immediately. I am using McAfee provided by Comcast instead.
Thank you for the link. I went to the page and don't see anything wierd in the services, but honestly I don't think I know what I'm looking for. I get this error at every boot. In case I didn't explain the problem correctly, when I boot I get to the welcome screen and then after a short while it fades to black for around 2 minutes with only the mouse cursor visible and moveable. After that it loads. Posted 24 August - AM.
That's a legitimate service belonging to CyberLink PowerCinema. It's not required at start up, so you can set it to manual. Posted 25 August - AM. Thank you for all your help and patience. I re-booted and I couldn't believe it started in less than two minutes. This is down from the over 3 minutes before. So, I'm feeling more confident that I don't need to return the computer, but I'm wondering if there could be a problem with the Cyberlink Program Quick Play? This is the only Cyberlink product on my computer.
The QuickPlay program seems to be functioning OK with the service disabled, but I get the warning box in the notification area that start up services are blocked. It is pretty annoying so I would like to solve the problem. Any suggestions? In the meantime, is there a way to stop the blocked start up programs warning?
Thank you again for all your help! I don't use Quick play, but did you try setting it to 'manual' rather than disabled? Posted 25 August - PM. I didn't try setting it to manual. Honestly, I don't know how I would do that. I just clicked on the Services tab and unchecked it.
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