Vista - Black Screen?

One day while using my Vista Ultimate os, a BSOD popped up, and after it
dumped my memory and restarted, I found the OS would not boot, I continually
got the error "No Operating System Found", so I inserted the Vista Dvd, and
used the repair function, which made that error message go away, and Vista
booted and got past the Vista logo screen, but after that, the screen goes
black except for the mouse pointer, and the usual information about the
version of windows i am using down in the bottom right... and it sits there
with nothing happening.
Are there any fixes out there for this bug?

Also, I am using Vista RC1 build 5600 if that helps.

That happened to me yesterday and I found that it had changed my boot
drive setup in my bios. When I reset it to the proper boot drive, it
hasn't happen again and I haven't had anymore problems.
Blue Angel!!

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:35:34 -0800, benduker
<benduker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>One day while using my Vista Ultimate os, a BSOD popped up, and after it
>dumped my memory and restarted, I found the OS would not boot, I continually
>got the error "No Operating System Found", so I inserted the Vista Dvd, and
>used the repair function, which made that error message go away, and Vista
>booted and got past the Vista logo screen, but after that, the screen goes
>black except for the mouse pointer, and the usual information about the
>version of windows i am using down in the bottom right... and it sits there
>with nothing happening.
>Are there any fixes out there for this bug?

This wouldn't work for me, as I have two HDDs in my computer... one running
Vista, and one running XP. I have switched from Vista to XP multiple times
since this problem, so i'm guessing it's not that....

Hi. I noticed a similar black startup screen with only mouse pointer and
version number, and it turned out that I had left a USB mass storage device
connected at shutdown. When I unplugged it, the Windows startup continued
normally. Sometimes this would happen with an external HDD in a USB box,
sometimes it would happen with an MP3 player connected to USB. I'm currently
on Beta2/Build 5384, waiting for my Retail copy to arrive in the mail. Good
Luck.

"benduker" wrote:

> One day while using my Vista Ultimate os, a BSOD popped up, and after it
> dumped my memory and restarted, I found the OS would not boot, I continually
> got the error "No Operating System Found", so I inserted the Vista Dvd, and
> used the repair function, which made that error message go away, and Vista
> booted and got past the Vista logo screen, but after that, the screen goes
> black except for the mouse pointer, and the usual information about the
> version of windows i am using down in the bottom right... and it sits there
> with nothing happening.
> Are there any fixes out there for this bug?