DADouglas

It's 8/09/08 & I've run into the same Black Blank Screen problem when the system seems to be working.

I'm comp-illiterate so bare with my story style.

Here's my story & I hope it helps you all figure out this out.

Yesterday My HP Pavilion dv2819nr laptop with AMD Turion 64 processor running vista ultimate x64 went bonkers. This is a 90 day old lap and it's been a pain from day 1. Runs too hot and explorer and programs have been locking up frequently from the first day. I plan on sending it back to HP with a demand to fix or give me my $grand$ back.

Well, enough of that.

Yesterday the instant messenger (which I always keep off & blocked) started opening up all on its own over & over again. I though it was a spammer or mal/virus or just more bad crap with this system & VistaU. So I ran Spybot SD, AVG scan and every cleaner I have and dumped 2 trojans I'd never seen before and had managed to slip in. (Sorry I didn't take notes; just dumped em) I Figured that cured it but was wrong. IM started up again and I closed it and started to un-install it for good. That's when it happened.

Screen went dead black except the cursor worked. CTRL ATL DEL brought up the selection screen just fine. Task manager, shutdown & all worked. Me, I'm scratching my head. So I rebooted, got the log-in screen and stroked the finger print log-in thingy and black screen of death appeared. Many time, many times of rebooting attempts failed to get anything else.

Finally I F8 at boot-up and tried all the different Safe Mode's with the same result. I thought I was fit to be stuck with a useless fried Laptop.

Until I tried this:

F8 at boot and I chose 'Repair Your Computer', logged in as admin, tried 'System Restore' and rolled it back a few days. And to my surprise (and I was to) it all can back with the screen working fine.

I've no idea if this is a perm fix or if I'm just lucky. But it's up and running.

Hope my long winded tail helps.