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Black screen after windows xp install

Last answer on Oct 2, 2009 12:50:49 am BST TCA, on Jul 10, 2008 3:13:16 pm BST 
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Hello,

I just loaded a XP pro on my desktop and it seems to load ok but only to a black screen. I've removed everything except the the video card (not part of mother board) and rebooted but always to a black screen. I've rebooted and tried hitting the enter button 5 times for a "searching for new hardware" just in case that might work. Will changing montors or video cards help. This is a fresh install so nothing on the hard drive is needed.

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Tooly McTooligan, on Jul 10, 2008 5:58:16 pm BST

Hello TCA,
When you said it seems to load ok, what do you mean by that?
If the monitor displays nothing at all and you see its LED flashing or displays "no signal" or something like that. Try another video card.

   
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TCA, on Jul 10, 2008 7:37:43 pm BST
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Well, when I boot up the screen lights up as usual and then the XP pro comes up with the loading indicator and then when the windows XP should display the desktop and icons, nothing but a black screen. The monitor is indicating ON and I can hear the processor do it's thing but nothing else. I can try another video card but was wondering if there was another way.

TKS

   
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liste, on Dec 15, 2008 7:57:41 am GMT

Cant

   
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lbjeff, on Dec 31, 2008 3:44:02 pm GMT

Did yoiu ever find a resolution to this problem? I pretty much got the same thing going on. Fresh install of XP, everything looks great until the machine reboots. I go past the bios all the way to what should be the Windows screen when everything goes black. ???
Thanks.

   
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lbjeff, on Dec 31, 2008 3:48:19 pm GMT

One more thing... I've tried multiple AGP video and evan a PCI. The machine acts the same with any card.

   
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Googler, on Jan 11, 2009 7:30:06 pm GMT

This sounds as if your video driver was broken.
Try going to Windows Safe Mode [Hit F8 at the very start of the boot (=before the indicator shows up)]. It will load with a fallback video driver, and you can remove your "big" driver. Then reboot (normally, without any hitting F8) and your normal mode Windows will also start with the fallback video driver. You can then reinstall the correct driver (otherwise you won't have any 3D-support).

Good luck!

   
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Rje, on Mar 6, 2009 8:17:03 pm GMT
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I had the same problem a few days ago. I installed Xp Pro and As it I saw the Windows start and the Screen goes black and Nothing. I played around with an rebooted and Press F8 before windows logged on. I first tried safe mode and the desktop load and task bar. But that still did not solve my problem. Rebooted, and hope for the best. I still got the black screen. This time after I rebooted I press F8 again this time instead of choosing safe mode; I chose enable vga mode, and windows loaded normal except at a 8bit resolution when I tried changing resolution the computer froze.

How I fixed was I went to control Panel/system/hardware and when to display, there I found my video card and another vga driver when i disabled the generic vga driver. I rebooted my video Card took over and Black Screen Went away. i hope this help.

   
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 jcsys, on Oct 2, 2009 12:50:49 am BST

Great reccomendation, it worked great.
Thanks.

   
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nancy, on Jun 8, 2009 5:49:58 am BST

The problem you are currently facing is quite common as I have seen many of my friends faced the same problem. I advised them to visit http://www.supportonclick.com. I take their help whenever I face any computer related issues. The staffs over there are skilled enough to solve all types of tricky jobs and they helped my friends installing XP in their laptops as well as desktops. I think it might help if you seek their support immediately.

   
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slim BELAIZ, on Jul 15, 2009 10:25:05 am BST

Hello.
As I am a System Engineer I use to install many OS's on my 6 RAID disks. this time I installed GRUB on the MBR
instead of Extended partition. When I try to re-install win7, the setup says hard or soft changes... Then I try to Fixmbr with XP setup disk and I get a black screen. If I disconnect the RAID and use only my IDE disk, the xp setup disk went to setup screen normally.
I hope this will help.

Slim

   
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Windows XP, on Aug 30, 2009 7:15:14 am BST

Just press the power button or reset.(if power button then do not press and hold, press once.) Or refresh your screen.

   
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