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freak of nature 64
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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 21:24
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Two nights ago my computer was fine, but yesterday morning when I turned it on, it would get a black screen. After some searching on google and trying everything I knew how, I decided to do a hard reset, because I don't want to waste money taking it to Best Buy (Geek squad sucks). Anyone else had the "Vista black screen of death with no mouse cursor before login screen"?

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AutoBot
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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 21:35
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I know someone who had to reinstall Windows because of something similar to that, but hopefully you won't have to. The problem could be many things, what are the other steps you took?

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ionstream
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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 21:43
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Does it give you the "loading Windows" animation? Do you still see the motherboard information in the beginning of starting up? If you do, then a black screen at this point probably means a driver failed to load. You can see which driver by booting into safe mode and seeing what the last driver it loads is.

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freak of nature 64
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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 22:15
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Startup HP screen - loading bar screen - black screen with no mouse
Error from safe mode startup:


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bitJericho
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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 23:43 Edited at: 4th Aug 2010 23:43
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the image url isn't loading. What's the error?

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Asteric
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 14:34
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Quote: " Vista Problems"


There is your problem right there.

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