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Black screen on startup, choose 2000 Pro or Home?
On my DELL notebook with 4GB RAM after login screen my system hangs with a black screen, no mouse cursor and keyboard leds (CAPS, SCROLL, NUM) are bloked, if I press the power button for a few seconds and then I start the system again the Vista recovery screen apear and if I sellect "Normal startup" it work fine.

Black screen at startup
I will try to start up again and see if I can do it using the f8 version... "Rey Santos" wrote: Try to restore operation of Windows XP by using the Last Known Good Which it will run on, but I did try and restart it and it froze again on the black screen. Anyone have any advice or know whats causing this?

black screen on startup
Jim Dech jjd...@compuserve.com microsoft public windowsme general One time in 10, ME will start in its standard white screen and continue until the desktop blue screen with hourglass comes on. 8 times in 10, it starts with the white screen for 5 or 6 seconds, then changes to black screen with blinking white cursor

Black screen at startup - and NOTHING happens
Alexander Maus am...@student.uni-kl.de comp os ms-windows win95 misc Dale Coleman schrieb: Hi all, I thought I read someplace that it is possible to configure Win 95 so it starts with a black screen and displays the startup text that the Windows 95 start graphic hides. As described in this NG before: Edit the MSDOS

Black screen at startup
When I try and boot up I see cdrom light blink, Hard drive light, then 6 intermitent beeps and the cooling fan is running very fast as never before and all the time I get just the black screen. Sometimes the fan doesn't come on at all on powering up. The power button does blink on the monitor when powering up.

black screen problems...
Copy the file to a floppy diskette or burn it to a cd and then boot your computer with your Windows 9x startup media and run the command. I tried to install Windows with Boot from CD, but still the black screen appears. I changed the first boot device to CD Rom and disabled all the others.

black screen at startup only, not at restart
Safe Mode Safe Mode with networking Safe Mode with command prompt Last known working startup Boot windows normally. I tried these 2 options: Last known working startup Boot windows normally After picking either of those options the system would just cycle back to the black screen with the same options of: Safe Mode

Black Screen on Startup
You log in with a session type at the lower left of the screen. My mistake was: I aselected a different type of session, evidently one that isn't supported, so now all I get is a black screen every time I boot in Linux. Suse saves the type of session and reboots the same every time until you change.

Startup repair not working
Matt Gibson ma...@blueedgetech.ca microsoft public windowsxp hardware Have you tried a different monitor? Matt Gibson - GSEC.

Major Startup Problems
The old one just had a black screen on startup...no memory test, ide detect etc. I could here the hard disk spin up & cpu fan worked as well & all lights on case. Now I,ve put the new board in I get the same result as above but no hard disk working at all and still nothing on the screen.

XP install - black screen on startup!
Lori L...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general The past few mornings on my first log into Windows XP the screen will become black after it starts loading. I can hear the programs loading but the screen is black and says Analog input cannot display this video mode.

Black start screen with startup text?
After I get the system chime, nothing happens: a black screen. It never boots. After several force restarts (and resetting of the power manager, etc.), I can always get it to start up. Usually I get a few more freezes at various points along the startup. I've tried starting from the OS 9 CD -- same behavior.

Help! Windows start up,monitor blacks out
Now under 98 and NT4 SR5 it won't initialise the screen properly. It stays black and in top left hand corner I get a "divide overflow" message loop. There seems to be a difference in the way the screen is configured/initialised by the OS to cater for HTML pages which screws up the DOS screen initialisation.

falcon 4 black screen at startup
.After a few seconds of that, the screen goes black and the HD stops activity. I ran the diagnostics in the Boot setup and they came out clean. What could be wrong with Vista that it leaves me at a blank screen after a few seconds of the startup routine?

falcon 4 black screen at startup
stan stan...@hotmail.com alt windows98 G'day people Sometimes when I boot up the screen remains black ie no writing at all , then windows "sounds" like it starts ie the music plays etc .. but the screen remains black. CTRL-ALT-DEL repeats the process. But when i switch off at the power-point and switch on again and

Black screen, buzz on startup
Then, somehow my loading of Direct X 5.0 and 1.08 changed Jedi Knight and then I started getting the black screen. I think very much that it has to do with what order you install the drivers.... it MIGHT have also to do with 1.08 monster drivers. Before my format, I had 1.07 and they worked with Direct X just fine.

Flying Corps Gold black screen on startup
B. Jogia b.jo...@chello.nl microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment If I understand you correctly you are refering to the Boot menu screen that offers you the choices you listed... The screen can be made to 'disappear' (so to speak) by editing the Boot.ini file such that the line default=30 is changed to

Display of Processor Speed on Startup
When starting Windows XP this morning, the screen scrolled "Recovering orphaned files . . ." for several minutes and then went to a black screen. Now each startup proceeds until the XP splash page, at which point the screen goes completely black with just the mouse pointer visible. This system has been running XP

XP won't startup under safe mode - black screen
You should get to a black menu screen. Use the arrow keys to highlight Last Known Good Configuration and press Enter. Hopefully this will boot you to the Desktop. If that doesn't work then try the same route and select Safe Mode. When you get to the Logon screen select the "Administrator account" and leave the

computer will only start up in safe mode
Bjorn Landemoo bj...@landemoo.com microsoft public windowsnt setup Michael The black screen often indicate a problem with the Master Boot Record, and could very well be virus related. See this MS Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q166/4/54.asp There was another problem before