Black Screen

[Tharin]

I suppose this is a software problem...not sure. But anyway, here is the rundown of what happened. I turned on my computer 2 days ago and intead of booting up it went to some kind of disc check thing. So i let it do its thing for the next hour or 2 and when it was done it became a black screen with a cursor and there was nothing to do except move my cursor. So i just figured it had finished and i should just turn my computer off and on. So i did that and my computer booted up just fine, got to the login screen, typed in my password and when it logged in, instead of seeing my desktop, it was the same black screen with a cursor that i could move. Also i can go to the Ctrl-Alt-Del menu. I tried using task manager thinking maybe i needed to start explorer.exe or something but when i tried to start Task manager it went back to the same black screen. Any idea what this is from and how i can fix it?

[A Guy]

What Operating System are you using? Can you boot to safe mode and see your desktop, etc? A Guy

[Tharin]

Windows 7 Home Premium, yes i'm in safe mode with networking right now

[A Guy]

Forgive my rudeness, Welcome to Raymonds Tharin Suggest 1st step is to run Startup Repair. You may have to run it up to 3 times to fix startup problems. If no help, post back, myself or someone else will have more ideas.

[url=http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html]Startup Repair

A Guy

[ha14]

possible you have nvidia driver problem, you can unistall reboot and let windows to reinstall; Or you can use windows restore point to go back in the future when everything was fine, you can do that also from windows boot cd.

[Tharin]

Oh np, you didn't come off as rude! But I tried repairing it I think two times and both times it said no errors were detected.

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I have an ATI graphics card and also I looked for previous restore points and there were none, which Is odd considering my computer is scheduled to make restore points every week or so.

[A Guy]

Going to suggest you boot to safe mode, remove the ATI driver, reboot and see if it works with the windows default driver. If so, you can try installing the latest ATI driver again. A Guy

[Raymond]

It looks like a virus problem to me when you said that trying to launch Task Manager and it goes back to black screen.
A lot of virus are coded to auto kill Task Manager when it finds it running.
Can you check if you are able to boot in to SafeMode?
If you don't know how, start up the computer and start tapping the F8 key until you see the boot menu.
Select Safe Mode from there.

If you're able to boot in to Safe Mode, please let me know so I will guide you on how to check the auto start entries.

[A Guy]

Ahhh, good catch Raymond. I missed that about the task manager. The number 1 and 2 causes of this are GPU drivers, and viruses. A Guy

[Tharin]

yes i'm in safe mode right now.