Vista booting into a black screen with only the cursor working

dohnut · 09-28-2009, 10:49 PM

Vista 32 Bit Home Premium

Before vista booted into a black screen, I turned on my computer to discover that it wouldn't load my profile. I got to the welcome screen where you can choose which user you wanted and enter a password but I only have one user on that computer and I recently took off the password so I shouldn't even see that screen come up. I try to log in anyways and vista gave me an error but I don't remember the exact error. It had something to do with user profile though.

After a few attempts of trying to log in, I kept getting the same error and I couldn't load onto my desktop so I restarted the computer. After that I only saw the green loading bar for 2 seconds and saw a split second BSOD. I ran the vista recovery DVD and did a system repair. That repair fixed the BSOD but now I see a black screen with a movable cursor after the the green loading bar finishes.

I have tried system repair to no avail. System restore does not work. Memory check came out clean. Checked the hives. I tried almost everything I read on the internet but to no avail. I really do not want to reformat my hard drive because I have a lot of important files on it.

Anyone have any more ideas that I have missed? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

vikram1983 · 09-30-2009, 04:28 AM

Hi,
I think your display driver or video card need to be checked.

joeten · 09-30-2009, 08:00 AM

hi at this point i would try saving my data you can use a linux distro like ubuntu to attempt to save the data to a usb device or to disc http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http:/...3l-SNgoraV0dAA and follow this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-computer/ once complete you can do a reinstall of your os,i would also look into vikram1983 suggestion if you can test the card in another comp

09-28-2009, 10:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
dohnut Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 OS: vista	Vista booting into a black screen with only the cursor working Vista 32 Bit Home Premium Before vista booted into a black screen, I turned on my computer to discover that it wouldn't load my profile. I got to the welcome screen where you can choose which user you wanted and enter a password but I only have one user on that computer and I recently took off the password so I shouldn't even see that screen come up. I try to log in anyways and vista gave me an error but I don't remember the exact error. It had something to do with user profile though. After a few attempts of trying to log in, I kept getting the same error and I couldn't load onto my desktop so I restarted the computer. After that I only saw the green loading bar for 2 seconds and saw a split second BSOD. I ran the vista recovery DVD and did a system repair. That repair fixed the BSOD but now I see a black screen with a movable cursor after the the green loading bar finishes. I have tried system repair to no avail. System restore does not work. Memory check came out clean. Checked the hives. I tried almost everything I read on the internet but to no avail. I really do not want to reformat my hard drive because I have a lot of important files on it. Anyone have any more ideas that I have missed? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Last edited by dohnut; 09-28-2009 at 10:52 PM.

09-30-2009, 04:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
vikram1983 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 11 OS: windowx XP service pack3	Re: Vista booting into a black screen with only the cursor working Hi, I think your display driver or video card need to be checked.

09-30-2009, 08:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
joeten Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3,206 OS: vista	Re: Vista booting into a black screen with only the cursor working hi at this point i would try saving my data you can use a linux distro like ubuntu to attempt to save the data to a usb device or to disc http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http:/...3l-SNgoraV0dAA and follow this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-computer/ once complete you can do a reinstall of your os,i would also look into vikram1983 suggestion if you can test the card in another comp __________________