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Recognizing an external drive when rebooting
wstaylor wstay...@wstaylor.net microsoft public windowsupdate After performing several updates yesterday my vista machine has gone from powerhouse to super-slow. It was starting up from boot to logon in less than 2 minutes. Now it will start sit on a black screen for 5-6 minutes and then slowly piece by piece load

Black screen after boot
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.net wstaylor wrote: After performing several updates yesterday my vista machine has gone from powerhouse to super-slow. It was starting up from boot to logon in less than 2 minutes. Now it will start sit on a black screen

blank screen on boot after kernel compile
Well, when I turned on the computer this morning there was the usual startup Vista progress bar (moving green dots) then nothing - blank screen and no noticable noise from the pc. I noticed the last DVD disc was still sitting in the drive - I took it out and restarted. Same thing. Restarted and entered the boot

Upgrade fails... black screen after boot menu
I downloaded the windows xp x64 trial cd and have tried installing it on a different partition from the 32-bit xp to make a dual boot configuration. After getting past the inital setup phase and restarting I get the option of both windows. when I try to boot windows xp x64 all I get is a blank screen.

DCPP: Blank screen after boot using bootauth
I can see the Grub boot screen and when I select Suse Linux I can see (after clicking Esc) that a lot of stuff is loading. I also see the progress indicator going till the end and then I get a black screen. I can also boot in 'safe' mode and start the Sax2 from the console and change the graphics settings.

Black screen flash after boot to desktop...
After installing the Novell Client on a new laptop, I reboot the computer and right after the xp logo loading screen, I get nothing but a black screen and a cursor. Any idea what is causing this? After going into the laptop via safe mode and uninstalling Novell, it then will boot properly.

Was;Re: Black screen after boot now : Ethernet questions
Stan Brown the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm microsoft public windowsxp basics Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:46:00 -0800 from rich <rich @discussions.microsoft.com>: I keep getting a black screen when I try to boot up. The black screen appears after the Windows XP boot screen comes on and appears to fully load Windows.

Please Help - After install and reboot, I am locked out!
upon reboot, I get an blank screen with "LI" at the top. Once again, I am locked out. - using the advice I got when I had problems with Boot Magic, I tried fdisk /MBR at an A:/ prompt - Upon restart, I get the Invalid Partition Table error message!! So, am I screwed? I have been reading articles at COL knowledge

Blank Screen w/blinking cursor upon startup after IE 4.01
After my friend got home from work he took his pc apart to try and track down the problem. After plugging it all back together, hey presto! it worked again. So he fired up Ghost Recon and was happily nailing tango's when the screen went black again. Many expletives later he discovered that when he moved his swivel

Ubuntu Installation - Please Help - Black screen
Larry larry.ri...@cox.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support After booting system (Windows XP Pro) I end up with a blank screen except for the mouse pointer which will move. Ctl-Alt-Del does nothing - only way to reboot is via power button. If started in safe mode w/ network support, still end up with

Blank screen for a bit after boot
Hey, I'm using the very latest ForceWare drivers, and I've kinda noticed that the moment the machine boots to the desktop, the screen briefly flashes black. I can't say as I've noticed this happening before (that doesn't mean it didn't happen before though). Is it, er, normal? I'm using 53.03 and this same thing

Black Screen after NWClient install : First Boot
After getting the updates (except for 1 that failed) it said it had to re-boot and I clicked OK. The system re-booted and after POST (I think) sat for a long time at a blank screen with a flashing cursor at the top left. Since it didn't seem to be responding, I manually re-started it and it did not go to the boot

Opening Access DB Crashes SBS
"Susan Bradley" wrote: Jorn Christian wrote: Last night on of my customers HP Proliant ML350 server with SBS2003 wont boot after running a windows update. When the server boots it looks to start up as normal, displaying the Windows Server 2003 splash screen then i goes black and nothing more happens.

Black screen after boot from Universal LiveCD
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? Report back any errors/warning from the last time you booted into safe mode after trying to boot normally right before that... (verbatim please.) Also - what changed?

Ubuntu Installation - Please Help - Black screen
I checked msconfig and the boot.ini tab was still missing however I don't think this was meant to solve that. I do have two hard disks but the second one is old a totally blank, no data at all. All in all I now have a disk that will help to boot up in a normal fashion and maybe sometime in the near future (after I

Excessive load/boot time
If its XP it can get seriously confused if it can see the original and the clone during the first boot after the copy. with a 30G drive using Maxtor's Maxblast cloning software...which works fine until I try to reboot to the cloned drive...at which point it just hangs with a black screen after the BIOS windows.

Reverting to W2K only after removing W2K/XP Dual Boot
then after about 15 seconds it restarts again and it then says this as it tries to boot windows "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected Also I noticed on boot where it as the black screen at the start it says this "Memory runs at single channel." from time to time but not allways.

Black screen after install boot
I have absolutely the same problem (blank screen after boot befor login) on two notebooks with ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 and 9700 under Vista Business and ATi Catalyst 7.2. I am very grateful for each assistance! Thanks. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com --

Bug#468357: win32-loader: installer won't load after rebooting
.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?

SuSE 9.1 - blank screen during boot
Loading gentoo.igz ............................................ Then it goes to a black screen again. Maybe all the auto-detection is wreaking havoc with your video? Have you tried something like: boot: gentoo nofb nodetect nohotplug -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- gentoo-u...@gentoo.org mailing list.