Screen goes black when Vista 32bit loads....

Hi guys. Ive had my computer for almost a year with no problems. Las
night it had its first. I turn the computer on and the monitor work
fine, i can see the start up process but right when the globe for vist
should show the screen goes black and then says "no signal" and neve
comes back on. I can still hear vista loading though but it never come
back onto the screen. When i started the computer in safe mode i wa
able to load vista. I ran a virus check that found nothing. Thi
morning i did a system restore and now i cannot even get windows to loa
in safe mode. When i try to load it normally the screen goes black.
when i try to load into safe mode the screen goes black by i an see an
move the mouse cursor. Any ideas? I tryed to see if i had a start u
repair option by hitting F8 but all it did was ask me to pick the driv
to boot to first. I have a recovery disk from the manufacturer. shoul
i use this? Will it erase everything on the hard drive? I do not wan
to lose my photos or music. Any ideas guys? This is my system specs

Dual Core Pentium 3
Asus P5N-E mother boar
2 G Ra
NVidia Geforce GTX 768 MB graphics car
Soundblaster sound car
500 GB hard driv
DVD Driv
DVD/RW Driv

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys
500 GB Hard Driv

--
dlesko

This could be a power supply problem, particularly if you have an 8800 that
requires its own power connector. That would be my first 5 guesses.
If your computer is a year old and you are running with the power supply
that came with the case it is about time for a melt-down.
If you end up getting a new power supply get a name brand, e.g. Cooler
Master or Antec or OCZ (there are others) that is at least 600 watts. For
upper end NVidia cards 650 watts is a good minimum and some recent ATI cards
need even more watts.
This sounds like a hard ware problem. It is not likely your motherboard,
videocard or hard drive. You can see if you can run the Microsoft memory
tester as this usually rapidly identifies bad ram.
Before considering a Windows reinstall that will trash your hard drive, and
from what you write sounds pointless, see if you can plug your hard drive
into another computer and off load whatever files you need.

In article <>,
dlesko <> wrote:
>
>Any ideas guys?
>

The cable in the back came loose.

Your pet cocker spaniel chewed it up.

The cable in the back has failed.

The monitor has failed.

The video card has failed.

The operating system is attempting to display a mode the monitor
cannot. (This is where the "safe mode" thing will help.)

You have been rude to an old Gypsy woman, who has cursed you
with the Bane of the Black Monitor. You must now find her again and
apologize by gifting her with fine silk and bottles of arak.

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:23:12 +0000 (UTC), (the wharf
rat) wrote:

>In article <>,
>dlesko <> wrote:
>>
>>Any ideas guys?
>>
>
> The cable in the back came loose.
>
> Your pet cocker spaniel chewed it up.
>
> The cable in the back has failed.
>
> The monitor has failed.
>
> The video card has failed.
>
> The operating system is attempting to display a mode the monitor
>cannot. (This is where the "safe mode" thing will help.)
>
> You have been rude to an old Gypsy woman, who has cursed you
>with the Bane of the Black Monitor. You must now find her again and
>apologize by gifting her with fine silk and bottles of arak.

<SNORK>

dlesko

I have just recently started seeing the same problem and have not been able
to find a solution. However I have found that if I do a ctrl-alt-del and
when the screen shows up I select "log off". Shortly after that I get the
option to log back in and it goes into windows immediately.

Don't know what is causing the problem, however this "might" get you back
into windows.

Arge
"dlesko" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi guys. Ive had my computer for almost a year with no problems. Last
> night it had its first. I turn the computer on and the monitor works
> fine, i can see the start up process but right when the globe for vista
> should show the screen goes black and then says "no signal" and never
> comes back on. I can still hear vista loading though but it never comes
> back onto the screen. When i started the computer in safe mode i was
> able to load vista. I ran a virus check that found nothing. This
> morning i did a system restore and now i cannot even get windows to load
> in safe mode. When i try to load it normally the screen goes black.
> when i try to load into safe mode the screen goes black by i an see and
> move the mouse cursor. Any ideas? I tryed to see if i had a start up
> repair option by hitting F8 but all it did was ask me to pick the drive
> to boot to first. I have a recovery disk from the manufacturer. should
> i use this? Will it erase everything on the hard drive? I do not want
> to lose my photos or music. Any ideas guys? This is my system specs:
>
> Dual Core Pentium 3G
> Asus P5N-E mother board
> 2 G Ram
> NVidia Geforce GTX 768 MB graphics card
> Soundblaster sound card
> 500 GB hard drive
> DVD Drive
> DVD/RW Drive
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys.
> 500 GB Hard Drive
>
>
> --
> dlesko

Anyone??? I could use some help here


--
dlesko

Had the same problem connecting the DATA (RGB cable) of monitor while
windows was coming up exactly after the vista logo (or globe or whatever it
is) and before the logon screen (how could i know that it was at that stage
while connecting RGB cable? good questions that i will answer it in the end;
anyway)

Nothing could help ; it was long ago and i dont remmber the exact solution
that helped but its was surely one these
1- going to safe mode change the resolution of screen to the lowest
possible; restart in the normal mode got my screen back then I could set the
resolution to what i wanted ( probably this was how i got rid of black
screen)

2- (very unlikely that i had done this but) uninstalling and reinstalling
video card driver.

yu can imagine how hard it is to login and change resoltion or reinstalling
driver (in blind black screen)

how could i know that it was at that stage while connecting RGB cable?

by sound card playing that sound while showing the GLOBE and my HDD activity
that i am familiar with

----- Original Message -----
From: "dlesko" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:55 AM
Subject: Screen goes black when Vista 32bit loads....


>
> Hi guys. Ive had my computer for almost a year with no problems. Last
> night it had its first. I turn the computer on and the monitor works
> fine, i can see the start up process but right when the globe for vista
> should show the screen goes black and then says "no signal" and never
> comes back on. I can still hear vista loading though but it never comes
> back onto the screen. When i started the computer in safe mode i was
> able to load vista. I ran a virus check that found nothing. This
> morning i did a system restore and now i cannot even get windows to load
> in safe mode. When i try to load it normally the screen goes black.
> when i try to load into safe mode the screen goes black by i an see and
> move the mouse cursor. Any ideas? I tryed to see if i had a start up
> repair option by hitting F8 but all it did was ask me to pick the drive
> to boot to first. I have a recovery disk from the manufacturer. should
> i use this? Will it erase everything on the hard drive? I do not want
> to lose my photos or music. Any ideas guys? This is my system specs:
>
> Dual Core Pentium 3G
> Asus P5N-E mother board
> 2 G Ram
> NVidia Geforce GTX 768 MB graphics card
> Soundblaster sound card
> 500 GB hard drive
> DVD Drive
> DVD/RW Drive
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys.
> 500 GB Hard Drive
>
>
> --
> dlesko
"dlesko" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi guys. Ive had my computer for almost a year with no problems. Last
> night it had its first. I turn the computer on and the monitor works
> fine, i can see the start up process but right when the globe for vista
> should show the screen goes black and then says "no signal" and never
> comes back on. I can still hear vista loading though but it never comes
> back onto the screen. When i started the computer in safe mode i was
> able to load vista. I ran a virus check that found nothing. This
> morning i did a system restore and now i cannot even get windows to load
> in safe mode. When i try to load it normally the screen goes black.
> when i try to load into safe mode the screen goes black by i an see and
> move the mouse cursor. Any ideas? I tryed to see if i had a start up
> repair option by hitting F8 but all it did was ask me to pick the drive
> to boot to first. I have a recovery disk from the manufacturer. should
> i use this? Will it erase everything on the hard drive? I do not want
> to lose my photos or music. Any ideas guys? This is my system specs:
>
> Dual Core Pentium 3G
> Asus P5N-E mother board
> 2 G Ram
> NVidia Geforce GTX 768 MB graphics card
> Soundblaster sound card
> 500 GB hard drive
> DVD Drive
> DVD/RW Drive
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys.
> 500 GB Hard Drive
>
>
> --
> dlesko