OK, First off, let me start by saying that I dual-boot my system, a 60GB partition for linux and a 500gb partition for windows (and my games). Yesterday, I spent several hours in linux trying to get a windows game (lotro) to work in linux. I almost got it to work, still needs some more effort tho. But that's not why I am writing this. When I was done and wanted to actually just play the game, I rebooted back into windows and immediately noticed that I had no sound. While this inof itself isn't a big issue since I play the game w/ minimal sounds, I figured, what the hell, I'll play anyway and deal with it tomorrow. No Dice, still had no sound, reinstalled drivers from mobo manufacture, still no sound. Now this is where I bust out the big guns, roll back to the earliest point in last week I can (4/28 for my system). Restore goes fine, reboot and wham! Black Screen with a mouse.
I tried a three-finger salute, nothing, ctrl+shift+esc for taskman, nothing, I can trigger sticky keys tho! Fat lot that does me. I get this screen now in Normal mode, Safe Mode, Last known good configuration, default vga driver, safe mode w/ cmd prompt (btw I get no cmd-prmpt.) At this point, I'm about to just reboot back into linux, copy what I can off to other drives and reinstall again, but I'd like to see if there are any other options left to me first.
