black screen at startup only, not at restart

[Bruce Roberson]

I am trying to diagnose the black screen dilemma that basically only comes
up on a cold boot, rather than a restart. I have gone into msconfig and
disabled a few things I thought could be culprits.

When the black screen, I choose the option to startup using the last known
good configuration. Then, it ends up occurring the next morning again. I did
shut down at noon yesterday and then restart after 5, and it didn't do that.

It seems that this started right after I began a trial membership to
Napster, so I cancelled the trial this morning to see if that would stop the
black screen.

Any other ideas of things I can try to diagnose where the problem is.

Thanks,


Bruce

 

[Rich Barry]

Bruce, did you check for Virus, Spyware, Adware and Trojans. You can
use these free sites.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html



http://www.softpile.com/authors/Kephyr.html

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

[Bruce Roberson]

Well I've done all that, any other ideas in case what I've done still has
problems in the morning with the black screen?