Black Screen After POST

[Guest]

i have installed windows XP and after post, it goes into a black screen
instead of showing the windows XP loading icon. what should i do.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i have installed windows XP and after post, it goes into a black
screen instead of showing the windows XP loading icon. what should i
do.

Even if you choose to boot into Safe Mode?

 

[Guest]

i know what i am doing what could cause the problem

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i have installed windows XP and after post, it goes into a black
screen instead of showing the windows XP loading icon. what should
i do.

Even if you choose to boot into Safe Mode?

i know what i am doing what could cause the problem

If you knew what you were doing, it would be unlikely you would either be
asking this question or you would give a lot more information in order to
get the answer you need.

At this point I asked the ONLY question that made sense - does it work in
safe mode?
- If it is a driver issue - the BASIC drivers will almost always work and
that means you can boot into safe mode.
- If you don't even get a choice to go into safe mode, then something went
awry with your install and it could lead to other possibilities
(bad/incompatable hardware usually.)

Therefore, I ask again - can you boot into safe mode?
If you can, what does your device manager show?
Did you check to see this machine was compatable with XP before installing
it?

Since it is a fresh install and you have nothing to lose (from the
information you gave) - then what happens if you remove all unecessary
hardware (sound card, NIC, Modem, extra hard drives, external drives (zip
included)) leaving only the CD drive and video card and other basics NEEDED
to run the PC and install from scratch again?

If you would give more details about the machine (hardware specifications,
if it has worked in the past, if this was a clean installation/upgrade or a
repair installation, if you recently added any unknown hardware, if it was a
reinstall/repair - why you were performing such an action, etc..) and your
problem (how far does it get into the boot, does it show the Windows splash
screen, can you press F8 and get the startup menu, etc..) then tell us what
troubleshooting steps you have taken and what options you have already
found/tried in your own research - then we can avoid telling you things you
"already know" and give you help that perhaps you do not know about.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

New video card but monitor still plugged into the onboard video maybe?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i have installed windows XP and after post, it goes into a black
screen instead of showing the windows XP loading icon. what should
i do.

i know what i am doing what could cause the problem

If you knew what you were doing, it would be unlikely you would
either be asking this question or you would give a lot more
information in order to get the answer you need.

At this point I asked the ONLY question that made sense - does it
work in safe mode?
- If it is a driver issue - the BASIC drivers will almost always
work and that means you can boot into safe mode.
- If you don't even get a choice to go into safe mode, then
something went awry with your install and it could lead to other
possibilities (bad/incompatable hardware usually.)

Therefore, I ask again - can you boot into safe mode?
If you can, what does your device manager show?
Did you check to see this machine was compatable with XP before
installing it?

Since it is a fresh install and you have nothing to lose (from the
information you gave) - then what happens if you remove all
unecessary hardware (sound card, NIC, Modem, extra hard drives,
external drives (zip included)) leaving only the CD drive and video
card and other basics NEEDED to run the PC and install from scratch
again?
If you would give more details about the machine (hardware
specifications, if it has worked in the past, if this was a clean
installation/upgrade or a repair installation, if you recently added
any unknown hardware, if it was a reinstall/repair - why you were
performing such an action, etc..) and your problem (how far does it
get into the boot, does it show the Windows splash screen, can you
press F8 and get the startup menu, etc..) then tell us what
troubleshooting steps you have taken and what options you have
already found/tried in your own research - then we can avoid telling
you things you "already know" and give you help that perhaps you do
not know about.

New video card but monitor still plugged into the onboard video maybe?

Good call, Colin. Seen that one a lot. Even seen the one where you have a
card that has one of the cable-splitters on it and the people are plugged
into the wrong side of the dual monitor splitter after rearranging cabling.

 

[Walter Clayton]

If you knew what you're doing you wouldn't be asking the question.

As Shenan stated, whether the machine comes up in safe mode is a critical
diagnostic. As is stripping the hardware and ultimately swapping hardware.

But then you knew these already didn't you and simply forgot the basics on
trouble shooting hardware/driver conflicts? ;-)

 

[Michael Stevens]

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If you knew what you're doing you wouldn't be asking the question.

As Shenan stated, whether the machine comes up in safe mode is a
critical diagnostic. As is stripping the hardware and ultimately
swapping hardware.
But then you knew these already didn't you and simply forgot the
basics on trouble shooting hardware/driver conflicts? ;-)

LOL, I guess they figured it out and was to
A. To selfish to share the results,
B. Embarrassed by being so rude,
C. Decided we were too stupid to help them.
D. Can't find the original post since they posted on CDO. LOL
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[Guest]

Shenan, is a very knowledgeable person if he asked a ? it is in your best
interest to answer it. But it's too late now you isolated the group.Tata...