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If I switch off and then switch on again, the screen again starts up, and then again after a few seconds, shuts down. I can't use my computer now, even the safe mode. Any advice? You Might Also Like. Other popular Articles From Wondershare. David Darlington staff Editor. Well, you've tried every tip to fix Toshiba laptop black screen on startup.

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It sounds like a graphics card problem. Check to see if it is connected securely. Please take precautions before entering the computer though.. See above for the links. My computer keeps going to black everytime I turn on and no safe mode point I promote pops up so I cannot put on safe mode so I keep going to recovery mode and asking for recovery disk which in fact I do not have a recovery disk for compaq computer and everytime I keep rebooting it keeps going to black screen of my whole heart it I just keeps going back to black screen so what do I do.

When i faced a password problem,i was pick out cmos battery. It displays same message in black screen. How can i solve it? Did you remove the battery to solve a bios password issue or a Windows login issue? Do you think you touched something else when you were taking the battery out? My computer does not give a complete black screen, it gives me the message of no boot device.

The weird thing is that after reset, keyboard or button, it starts ok. This happens every single time since a week ago. The hdd is a new WD 2 terra. I used it for a week to back up the old data, next disconnected the old one. It worked fine few days, and suddenly start doing this joke on me. Hmm maybe there is a fault with your hard drive… What about the bios settings?

Did you change anything there or check them to see if it is picking up your hard drive. I do not find any logic in this. Is not big news, it happens often that my computers defies logic. I think I just found a logic, the new hdd is on sata2, it is seen ok in bios, but somehow, at fresh boot bios goes to sata1, so I need to change the connectors inside, but this seems kind of bios bug. Other weird explanation, is that somehow at fresh boot still has the old bios setting, and at reset is clears.

Anyway, I will postpone tests and go on reset for a while because testing may prove disastrous. Just before I wrote here I tested the button reset just a second after power up, and the computer powered down. At power up again started, but powered down after a second. I was afraid I fried my bios or source, I tried something ilogic, I mean unplugged the computer, waited few seconds, plugged back in and started as usual with no boot device, reset from keyboard.

I will not touch again the reset button after poering the computer. My computer randomly shut down showing the blue error screen then restarted and showed a black screen with a blinking cursor and a white heart below the cursor.

I Put in my recovery disk and restarted it again and still a black screen with a blinking cursor but now no heart symbol. The blue screen means there was a problem…however now black.. First thing I would do is go into bios and check your boot options… Turn off everything else and only boot to hard drive…Turn off cd or dvd drive. This trend is so consistent its crazy. Greatly appreciate your help.

I am not sure if it could be due to the windows updates like i read somewhere. Hi i turned off my sony vaio computer laptop last night and when i tried to turn it on again it started the booting up process but too extremely long and just b4 windows loaded the black screen came on. This happens even when i try to start my computer in safe mode or any other mode. It just says starting windows and the red, green yellow and blue logo, after about an hour the screen goes totally black and the cursor shows and you are able to move it but no other function.

Hardware: Novatech desktop, MS V1. Switched on this morning, only to be greeted by the dreaded black screen and no beeps. Checked the all the cables and all is as was yesterday afternoon, when all was running ok. The fans were going and I let it run for 45mins but resorted to a hard-reset. On the next try, I got a single beep but nothing more. Left for over an hour and still no joy. On another try, tried F8 for 30mins and this time got no beep and nothing more.

The monitor reports that there is no signal and the keyboard light is on. Please help me…. Hello, i have big trouble with my computer.. First i got a blue screen with psychal damage or something.. Hello, While using my desktop I tried to install a software through a memmory stick.

Immediately the stick was inserted the antivirus detect a malware from the stick,I tried to scan the stick but my sreen went of immediately. I tried to switch if off and on but it wasnt coming up again. I removed the memory and insert it again all I could hear is a cracking sound as if the board is having difficulty in coming up. What cam I do in this case. If you would like to list your problem and get some suggestions on what to do then please visit the forum.

I will see your post and answer you directly. There are too many comments here for me to keep track of…;. PLz Help. I would restart and all would go back to normal. Last night I did a quick scan Norton and straight after the screen did it again. I restarted and the black screen with the lines came up straight away. I switched the laptop off and left it for 2 hours. When I switched it on again it did the same thing. Is this a virus or something else?

It is a common thing for Laptop Screens to die. It sounds like yours did because it had lines. Hi Mitz, Thanks for your response. It turned out to be the graphics card. Overheated or something like that. Hey, my computer is black after i turn it on! Let me tell you what happen, my laptop was on my lap when i accident move it and the battery came out Alittle I forgotten to lock BOTH locks , After that, i tried oning my laptop and it cant be on anymore, Any reason? When I try starting it normally it loads but then will go to a black screen.

What could be the problem? Please help me. Thanks a lot! Ok fellas here is the deal… i work nights as a doorman.. First of all, what a great thread you made!! Now, let me tell you what happened to my laptop.

Hope you can advise me. Everything at boot was working fine, i entered windows xp not a very recent laptop and everything ok. I also configured to get a Bios access password as a hardisk password as I had before, and I think this configuration was lost because the cmos battery charge was low. After that everything worked ok. I did not changed the cmos battery yet. This message appeared sometimes, and more repetitive. I made the same configurations and everything was running ok i could go into windows xp as before.

So what i did was to remove the keyboard but not disconecting it from de mobo so i could have access to de CMOS battery as other stuff like RAM, wifi card, etc. The CMOS battery has no cables and is easily removed with a flat screwdriver. So i removed it that way and took it to radioshack to change it for a new one. The battery type is CRxxxx something and is from Enercell Renata battery. Bought the new battery and installed it back home.

After that i power my laptop on, and nothing apeared on the screen, i cant here any beep sound eihter. When opening the laptop to acces de CMOS battery i always disconected it from the power cable but i confess that i did not disconected de rechargable battery not cmos battery but the big one.

Could you help me with some advice? Sure i wrote a lot for this, but i guess that any info is helpfull to identify the problem. Any advice in how to solve it? It would be much appreciated and thanks in advanced. Hi, alas my screen as sucumbed to the black screen as well. Mine went like this: I was on facebook when i clicked a friend, and then everything just froze, like not just the internet but the whole computer,could not get the start panel up or enything, so I hit the reset button on my tower, next thing i know black screen.

I left it for a couple of hours and came back to it and still the black screen, but this time I heard noises coming from it, like the windows startup sound, then i typed in my password on the black screen and I heard it let me on my file, but the screen was still black, i reset again, this time there was a white line in the top left corner of the screen blinking, then the windows repair thing came up and said start windows normally, so i did, nothing happened but yet another black screen.

This is extremly frustrating and i would love to here a fiz without having to pay for it, Thank you! I have tried taking the ram out of my computer, first 1 stick, this broght up the normal screen about america megatrends press f1 to continue bla bla bla, so i hit f1 and the screen went black and stayed black.

I would say that this has something to do with a startup file. You should put your Windows seven disc in and try to do a boot sector repair. Lance: Sounds like a memory problem. But what did you do with the memory. Did you just take one stick out and try one by itself? Yep I tried the one stick at a time and no dice. It had an aftermarket liquid cooling system installed on it to replace air cooling which got his room a bit too toasty.

Whenever I press the power button, the computer tower turns all its lights and fans on, but the mouse, keyboard, and monitor do nothing. The only way for one of the components to install is to have a clean restart, not botched like mine has been.

ALSO, the shutdown sequence sometimes nears infinity as the giant tries to quiet down. Omg thank you so much…. I had a USB on my computer and u said to take it out so thank u…ur a lifesaver. My laptop has the no beep, black screen issue. However every 10 seconds or so it just reboots itself and keeps that cycle going till I manually shut it down. Sounds like the motherboard. What do you think? The laptop is a few years old but rarely ever used.

I also tried a hard reset, removed the battery and tried straight from a plug. Any ideas what it is so I can replace it? My eee pc just up and did the same thing yesterday. In my case, I had the eeepc for 1 year now, but it is out o waranty. The problem occured yesterday morning and at one point I was able to restart the computer and it would bot normally, but within a few moments the screen would freeze and I would be forced to shutdown.

After shutting down the last time, it no longer has booted up and I will be trying a few things to hopefully diagnose or fix the problem.

It might be the LCD is broken which is unfortunately a common problem with asus, or possible the ram or some ohter hardware component, being that I was able to boot up and access info ok when it first happened. How to slove this problem. I literally unplugged it and plugged it back into the power source and it was still running. I tried everything. I even tried holding down the power button for 5 minutes and nothing still happened.

When i started my emachine acer em this morning it was not typing properly. First of all, on the XP login screen, when I tried to type anything, instead of one character or dot, in the password space , the entire space is filled up with that one character up until the character limit.

I tried taking the battery out and now all i am getting is a black screen, i can hear the power is on the fans are running and i have a blue light on the power button, but the power button is not turning it off, i have to take the battery to get it to power off. This just happened to me when accidentally hit standby in XP. I was in process of underclocking a GT video adapter with nTune and RivaTune, and thought that may have been corrupted as well. Also fortunately, everything had been backed up.

System is stable after that. A bit more info — on the multi-boot system, the problem also occurred with warm-boot restart attempts from Windows 7 bit and bit partitions on a separate physical drive. The common denominator was either the video or mobo BIOS, or a hardware failure.

In my case, it was the mobo BIOS. Several internet posts link standby problems with ACPI settings. This may have triggered the problem in the first place. Set it only stop CPU activity leaving video card powered up to hopefully avoid problem in future.

BIOS images are keyed to particular manufacturers and models, and may not be readily available from your manufacturer or sites like TechPowerUp. Keep data on a separate partition so that you can restore your OS partition without losing it. Good old Ghost DOS version works perfectly for me. Thanks, Mitz for this thread. It is a great help in solving a difficult problem.

The points made and comments here helped me to resolve my case. Hi Rick, Thanks to the fantastic information! It sounds like you really mess around with your computer a lot.

I have an hp g60 wm. On syartup the screen remains black and ican not do anything with it. When I put it in a very cold place say the freezer for 30 min to an hour,It will power on and works just fine for 20 to 30 min. Can someone please tell me what i can do? Which part of the computer are you putting in the freezer? Usually when you have a bad hard drive and you want to get the data off it you can put it in the freezer and it will be okay to use for about 20 min.

My friend believes its the AVG problem with windows vista and my father believes its the hard drive. I am thinking that you have damaged the boot sector on your hard drive. This will stop Windows from loading or even seeing a sign of it.

If you have an operating system CD, I would put it in and do a repair. Depending on what version of Windows you have it will repair the computer for you. However if it is the boot sector of your hard drive which makes it a bootable device, then you need to get to a command prompt in order to repair this.

When i click on any of the safe modes weird numbers in white come on my computer…when i click on configuration or start window mormal…it comes to Windoes xp and its loading but it continues. Hi, thanks so much for this guide. I think I have a problem not previously covered, though I have not gone through all the comments. Hi Lia.

I just bought an Eee PC, and within 8 hours of having it, it presented this exact problem. I immediately got an RMA from Newegg, and it is being replaced. I have a T Eee PC. It just powers on, no post and the hard drive whirls down after several seconds. I hope you and I get an answer.. Thanks for your tips. I just opened some covers on the back of my laptop, and made sure all parts were tightly fastened, and then my computer were back to normal again from being black screen.

Just like something never occurred. It was magic. Thanx also Microsoft for Windows 7. After a couple of restarts I was able to get into BIOS and reset the original configurations and start up windows normally. I tried switching around my RAM, cleaning the inside, resetting my agp video card, resetting CMOS, switching power cables, pressing any and all buttons but nothing seems to work. I can hear the fans running and I can see the keyboard light up when I power up but after that, nothing. Can somebody please help?

Can you get into bios still? It sounds like you have a problem with either your internal battery on the motherboard ie near dead…or you have a monitor cable not in right or some confusion there. Check all cables and display cards for good connection. Thanks Mitz for responding. I have also switched cables and made sure they are all in correctly but still nothing and I tried removing the cmos battery for 30 sec but still nothing.

Hi, I just got my computer back from cops, they confiscated it last November, Now when i try to turn on my Computer all the light were on, and fans are running, but i see no light in my keyboard or even my mouse, the monitor suppose to have Blue light, but when i turn on my computer it gives no display, and an Orange light SLEEP , the fans are sort of revving up while its turned on, i tried to open the case and clean it, i tried to remove the video card and put back again did it in the mem cards too, i also tried to remove all the cables and check and put it back, Still i get no display and no signs of controls.

Hmm sounds interesting! An amber light can mean a power issue. Power supplies can die after not being used or moved around. The next bad news is that it could be your motherboard. Hopefully a bad connection or bent pin..

I see control lights on the keyboard and can hear the fan running, nothing else. Less than a year old? I would take it back as most laptops have 1 year standard warranty! I would not touch anything if it has warranty. I had it working good yesterday but this morning upon turing pc on i had tons of squiggly lines of color on both the tv and the monitor so i used the power button and restarted it and got less squiggly lines and looked like it was going to come up but it went hay wire again with the cursor looking like a box and i could bairly see some programs under the squigly lines doing crazy stuff too; so i used the power button again and the next time it just went to a black screen.

Please help and advise how to save my data. Hi Keith It sounds like there was a screen resolution conflict but I am not sure if incorrect shut could have caused something else now…. You can also try pushing the Fn key on your keyboard with the F5 or F6 key to refresh resolution.

Sometimes this works. The restore went successfully, until the Boot-up, when i go the VAIO logo, but then the screen went black, with no cursor, no sound. Having the hard drive not plugged in should be ok…as it only has files you backed up…. Or were you actually restoring from there? I had one computer come up with the black screen. It was old and we decided to replace it. When I got the second computer all was fine. I did put my old hard drive as a secondary drive into the new computer.

All was fine for weeks and now it is doing exactly as the first. It will not boot. No beeps when I turn it on. I unplugged the second hard drive and still nothing.

What could be causing this? It could have been the problem if you had an existing virus on the old hard drive and then connected it to the new computer. Could this have been the problem? Do you think my graphic card needs replacing?

This simple reason can cause files to become corrupt because they were not packed away in time. You said that you logged in to 1 account and then had a black screen. Therefore this means that you got to the login screen of Windows. So use saw this screen and you typed in the pass word, is this correct? This site is very good but unfortunately I still fail to identify the problem.

I own a dell a quite old model and after i dropped it on the floor the screen light just went darker and darker and for a while I saw nothing but now I can see, but one vey weak because the screen light is off. So there is no POST codes or anything. What can I do? Hi Elsa, Dropping your laptop does not help! Obviously there could be any number of problems caused by this.

One of them might be that you have ruined your laptop screen. You can test this out by connecting your laptop to a computer screen or TV that allows computer connections. If your laptop boots up normally when plugged in to another monitor then you know it is the screen that needs to be replaced. After I switch on my Sony Vaio laptop it starts but screen is blank.

Doing control alt delete I can see all processes are running. In time about 20 m icons and task bar begin to appear while the connected to net icon the last to appear. Then lap top works fine. Some time if I am switching it off says hibernating mode. This happened after I bought a top of the range roller in flight bag that was well stacked so I am reluctant to believe it may be the cause.

How to rectify it? Then I would press on the button all link that says to start a new process. You can also try restarting your computer in safe mode, fully letting it load, and then shutting it down again. Is it the same? So you got to task manager, saw the new task button, clicked on it and typed in the new task explorer.

Is this what you did? Then in new task enter explorer. The lap top begins to work. I still cannot see connected to wireless icon though mails download, I can log into QQ but when I click to open browser nothing happens till about 15 to 20 min later the connected to wireless icon appears and then the browser page appears. If I try to go to network connection to see if I am on wireless nothing happens till about 15 to 20 M later I get to see connected icon i.

Hi I have a HP Pavilion DV and I was working on my laptop and the screen suddenly froze then I was not able to do anything even with the keyboard and such.

I decided to turn the laptop off by holding the power button, it turned out this was not a good idea as I got a black screen with no cursor or anything but the fan and disc driver seem to be working fine. I then got annoyed so I started experimenting and found that if I hit ctrl alt del it would just restart the laptop and one time I started spammed enter as it got to the point that I really got angry I got the windows vista sound before you can log in.

Then it seem that I was able to get in one of the accounts but it still have a black screen. Would really appreciate your assistance. If your computer is booting and you nearly got into Windows, this means that there is a problem with Windows. Have you tried pressing F8 when you start your laptop and going to a boot menu to choose safe mode? Also you can try putting your system disk in and doing a repair. This is not a full format because there is a repair option there.

An orange or yellow light can sometimes mean lack of power or a dead motherboard. These are the most common possibilities. In this case the things to try are to try another power supply to run your computer.

You can also view your motherboard and make sure there are no Bent pins or obstructions. Hi I am right now using a Window Vista. When I start up my computer a black screen comes up and there is not Start menu or nothing there is only a box which delete things and loads up programs like the internet or other. But How do i take away the black box and how do i bring back my desktop background and start button? I had a virus which I just took away.

Everything is set up right and is running right. But please reply and tell me how to fix this. Thank you.

Obviously the it is a damaged file or an unwanted registry entry. Click on the winlogon folder Now in the right hand panel click on shell. The data value should only be explorer. On this site I read that the keyboard could be the trouble. I changed keyboard and now all OK. My laptop is HP dv7 windo 7 OS. Just this morning,my screen suddenly when i hit the power button only to see my screen went black. Please do you have any Solution to this problem because its really pissing me off and i need to do my assigment with it.

Looking forwarding to receiving your swift respond. It shows something says launch startup repair and start windows normaly i choose the firdt then it freezes for 2 sec and then goes black plz help cuz i will lose alot of important stuff on my laptop and im currently using my phone. Hi,i have the same problem and I took the battery off and I did all this things. Please help? My computer has a black screen. I got into safe mode but the computer still shows a black screen.

I tried to install Windows XP but still a black screen. Is my computer dead or is there anything else I could do? Thank you! I have a optiplex gx running windows xp. I got a virus called security tool. I tired removing by following others instructions to put my computer in safe mode and remove it that way. When I put it in safe mode my computers screen went blank and the monitor wont come on.

The computer boots up but dont beep. Could the virus of knocked out my drivers? Any help will be appreciated. Hi there The virus would have not only damaged files but may not be removed entirely. Removing viruses is not easy as they are very sneaky. I would not feel safe until I had reformatted my computer after having a virus. Hello Mitz. My Toshiba laptop is about five months old. Last night, however, I left my computer running for about maybe an hour and a half and returned to it to find only the background—absent of the taskbar and the icons.

I tried restarting the computer but ended up with a black screen. I have even tried setting a restore point but nothing seems to be helping: the icons and taskbar appear only briefly and then I am left with just the background or a black screen again. If your laptop is only six months old can you take it back to your place of purchase?

If not, have you got an operating system CD to insert and do a repair. Did you try leaving it sit for an hour to cool off and then trying again? Take out the battery and unplug it for 30 minutes, then try again. Can you f8 into safe mode? Do you get an error message when you try to open task manager, or does it just do nothing? Oh, what shall I do?

My Dad would kill me if he found out its broken! Hook up another monitor to it to see if it is actually working. There is a blue monitor plug at the back. If it works then you know something is wring with the screen.. Maybe you could make sure the memory and hard drive are in place. I do not recommend going into laptops further than this though. While you have it open you might as well check the ram and video card and everything else you see.

Hello I have a question about this. My computer is at the stage with the one flashing cursor and this happened right after I allowed an upgrade. I saw this screen for maybe a split second if that, then my PC restarted automatically and then the flashing cursor with the black screen appeared. Do you have a good idea what this means and how I am able to fix this? Do you still have the problem…If you can get to the command prompt..

Jennie: Hi there It seems you have found your problem. Definitely backup your files first…Clean up your computer and maybe do some maintenance. Even a clean format will help. Then I would put things back one at a time. And in between restart the computer and make sure it is working…. Also when installing the printer, make sure the driver is for the Operating system you have…If the driver is for windows seven and you have XP then this is not good.. Hi I posted a few days ago and appreciated your feedback.

I have made a little progress but need some more guidance …. I uninstalled the printer software and reinstalled just the basic driver making sure it was for my operating system. I still have the same problem of booting to a black screen when the printer is connected via usb. Unplug the printer and it boots fine, plug it in, boots to black screen. When I press esc at boot up, it shows the printer on the list of bootable devices.

A little research shows this is a problem with this particular printer, but hp has done nothing to solve or acknowledge the problem.

Hi Mitz. I looked at a lot of sites about this, yours is the best. I got a black screen at boot, no beeps, no safe mode, would not boot from disc 5year old hp desktop with XP. I unplugged all unnecessary peripherals, including the new hp printer I installed a couple days ago, and now it boots.

So where should I go from here? Call hp about why the new printer might cause a crash?