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iMac black screen (resolution problem)
Then my brand new Voodoo3 2000 quits on me when I try to reboot after installing Powerdesk98. Black screen, not even a lit LED. I swap in my ATI All-in-Wonder Now, have I had three different and unrelated hardware failures in the course of three days, all coincidently related to moving everything to a new case?

KT7-Raid HPT370 Blue screen error
chime... and still black screen. i also tried booting with the hardware disc in (once holding down the C key and once with the option key) heard all thge right OF COURSE i also have a ton of homework due, and its all on the computer. i cant seem to find this specific problem in forums or group talks on the web,

question about PSP
DRV at 0002:0904" The application demands to be closed; when I do that another error message pops up (black screen): "Standard Mode: Invalid DPMI return from 0367:9FEB" I am then thrown back to the DOS-Prompt of my boot disk which however is "frozen" so only a reboot lets me go on. 2.) Setup (as recommended by

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
Yes. That was the first thing I tried, right out of the MS Knowledge Base. Did you reboot in-between uninstalling and reinstalling? Of course. Have you tried testing to see if it runs under a different user? No. I only have one user, have always only had one user, so I fell that's a fairly pointless exercise.

HELP: Stealth II Ate My Sound Card
Then it will display video. Of course, upon restart the monitor is back to displaying nothing. We know the card works and that it can work with your monitor so..... what happens when you press the VIEWMETER on your monitor? It should tell you what the fh and fv are even during the black screen.

Did I fry my banshee??? Black screen after reboot.....
Of course I would prefer to boot to the CD if it is possible, but here is the round-about way that I used: 1.) Created D drive with Partition Magic. 2. .... I started the install from Windows, then let it reboot to the blue setup screen. When I choose the option: "To delete the selected partition,

MotoRacer working?
Any original factory installed programs will be present and of course you will get a clean Windows. "CSM1" wrote: If you are comfortable with reverting your computer back to the condition of out of box from the factory. Reboot the computer, then while in the Black screen, press the F11 key. You must be fast,

cannot remove xp home
Occasionally on resume from standby I am presented with a black screen and a mouse arrow. The mouse can move the arrow. Caps lock key works. You cannot access the file system from another PC on the network (or course with the correct permissions). You cannot use the shutdown command on another machine to reboot

p4p800 deluxe restart from windows 2000 problem
Sometimes shutdown hangs at the "shutting down" screen. Sometimes I get to a black screen with a flashing cursor, then I get the "An internal stack overflow has Of course I have lots of other power-management problems but I've given up trying to fix them and only use shutdown - except now it won't work reliably

partition gone : more info
... the machine hang with a black screen with a cursor underscore fixed some distance across the screen (just as MSDOS always did if you somehow exited COMMAND. I replaced it, and of course it made no difference. Dosstart.bat wasn't there before I tried making one up, and it clearly never even starts executing.

98 SE - Prolonged delay on startup or reboot
Photo 2002 version, I get a black screen and nothing happens. I did a search and found my problem, as described under, "PIP2002: Cannot View the Get Creative Ideas Screen". I followed the resolution directions by going to START/RUN and typed, "Regsvr32 \Windows\System32 \Macromed\Flash\Swflash.ocx".

BLACK SCREEN
The Boot Magic would display a selection confirm message, such as: Preparing Machine to load "Windows ME" then immediately I see this on a black screen: Error #8255 Error writing master boot record Press any key to reboot. After several repeats of this I manage to get to the point of almost seeing the Windows

Black screen after upgrading from W98 to XP Pro
I see the CD drive light and floppy light, then it all just stops, black screen, nothing. I have replaced the video card with a new Rage II AGP 8mg (same as before, just replaced to be sure it was good) ATI now says it's the motherboard (of course they said it was the video card) If I open the case it will restart

Black Screen Problem
(Of course, on a dial-up, you don't want to be starting Peer before your dial connection to the LAN has been established anyway, But even still I get a lock up of the startup screen ever now and then, requiring use of the reboot switch. There is something wrong in the startup of PM or the WPS that is causing

Problem with first reboot in Windows 2000 installation
I have EXACTLY the same black screen problem - on the new HP z540. I installed the latest Microsoft and ATI updates. Still happening EXACTLY like Craig describes. "Craig" wrote: Brian, do you Once is does happen, the only cure is a reboot, and then its good to go again for whatever period of time it chooses.

Vista wont restart/Try this.
Of course i am the administrator, i have acess to everything. And then after a while, the notepad icon is replaced by that default icon (the one that is used by windows when it doesnt Reboot the computer, then while in the Black screen, press the F11 key. You must be fast, the screen is gone in a second or two.

Windows 98 is now restarting...
If the GRUB menu screen allows for selection of a kernel, press 'e'. Another method I can think of would be to use a Knoppix boot disk (Debian and RedHat should also be able to do this, if one uses ALT-F2 to go to the alternate console), mount the system disk, and edit /etc/inittab directly, unmount, then reboot.

Vista Won't Restart
Checking the internet revealed some sort of driver problem which a few people were experiencing and the black screen was really a black dialog box on a black And of course the style of PC games is very different - much more access on in depth stuff which is great if you have the time and inclination to spend

Rebuilding OS
Using Partion Magic 8.0 I have partitioned my 40GB drive into equal 20GB portions, the first which already contains WinMe is of course FAT32-formatted and the Unfortunately the system then does not boot from the hard drive and proceed with the installation, instead I merely get a black screen with a blinking

Windows ME Restart problem
Everything has been going fine -as in installing peripherals & software. BUT when I go to 'restart', it just stays at a black screen and I have to shut off & restart manually (which of course it then runs scandisk afterwards.) Can anyone advise me as to why this is occuring, and then perhaps I can fix it.