Vista - Blank screen on Reboot

11-28-2007

Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this afternoon,
no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with
white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need
instructions as if I were a beginner.

**joel406** · 11-28-2007

As if? Get your Vista DVD and boot to it and run the repair. IF that doesnt work run restore.

11-29-2007

Are you able to check the Event Viewer > System to see if there are any
logged reports with information that you could post back here so we can
better diagnose the problem? Have you recently attached a device to the
system that might be triggering this problem?
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"jennybob93" <jennbenn72501@xxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
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Quote:

> Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this
> afternoon,
> no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with
> white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need
> instructions as if I were a beginner.

11-29-2007

See if you can hit F8, ad get into Safe Mode to follow Andre's suggestion.

"jennybob93" wrote:

Quote:

> Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this afternoon,
> no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with
> white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need
> instructions as if I were a beginner.

Nossulator · 02-04-2009

There seems to be alot of "Black Screen" issues on www I had the problem
of going through the "login" screen process only to find that my system would
hand for around 2 mins on a "Black Screen with White Curser".
I am Running an ACER 6920G Vista Home Premium 32bit 86x with 4gig Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
graphics card. This is the process I took to fix this issue;
1. typed "msconfig" into search bar, "right" click & "Ran as administartor.
"continue" if UAC is on.
2. Selected "Start up" tab & "disabled all" - requires a restart.
3. I then typed "device manager" into search bar, "continue" if UAC is on.
4. "Clicked (+) to expand and "right" clicked on my graphics card
and disabled the card - also another restart.
5. After reboot I then went back to "device manager", "right" clicked
on the card again and this time "enabled it" - requires restart.
6. Problem fixed............I then went back into System Configuration "msconfig"
and enabled all start up's.
Hope this helps someone!

11-28-2007	#1 (permalink)
jennybob93 n/a posts	Blank screen on Reboot Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this afternoon, no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need instructions as if I were a beginner.
My System Specs

11-28-2007	#2 (permalink)
joel406 Vista Business/Home Premium/Ultimate x64/Server 2008 X64 471 posts	Re: Blank screen on Reboot As if? Get your Vista DVD and boot to it and run the repair. IF that doesnt work run restore.
My System Specs

11-29-2007	#3 (permalink)
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] n/a posts	Re: Blank screen on Reboot Are you able to check the Event Viewer > System to see if there are any logged reports with information that you could post back here so we can better diagnose the problem? Have you recently attached a device to the system that might be triggering this problem? -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "jennybob93" <jennbenn72501@xxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message news:0947C97D-5291-47EB-BCAF-93FFF30EC935@xxxxxx Quote: > Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this > afternoon, > no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with > white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need > instructions as if I were a beginner.
My System Specs

11-29-2007	#4 (permalink)
Mick Murphy n/a posts	RE: Blank screen on Reboot See if you can hit F8, ad get into Safe Mode to follow Andre's suggestion. "jennybob93" wrote: Quote: > Vista operation on Dell inspiron 1520. Shut down and restart this afternoon, > no new or added programs. Cannot get to windows -- only black screen with > white arrow after rebooting. What is going on and how to repair? Need > instructions as if I were a beginner.
My System Specs

02-04-2009	#5 (permalink)
Nossulator vista 86x 32bit 1 posts	Re: Blank screen on Reboot There seems to be alot of "Black Screen" issues on www I had the problem of going through the "login" screen process only to find that my system would hand for around 2 mins on a "Black Screen with White Curser". I am Running an ACER 6920G Vista Home Premium 32bit 86x with 4gig Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics card. This is the process I took to fix this issue; 1. typed "msconfig" into search bar, "right" click & "Ran as administartor. "continue" if UAC is on. 2. Selected "Start up" tab & "disabled all" - requires a restart. 3. I then typed "device manager" into search bar, "continue" if UAC is on. 4. "Clicked (+) to expand and "right" clicked on my graphics card and disabled the card - also another restart. 5. After reboot I then went back to "device manager", "right" clicked on the card again and this time "enabled it" - requires restart. 6. Problem fixed............I then went back into System Configuration "msconfig" and enabled all start up's. Hope this helps someone!
My System Specs

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