Blank Screen, Vista Bootup stops.

[kdanieli]

Booting up a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop:
•BIOS works fine and (can interrupt and get into BIOS or Bootup if I want
to)...after BIOS
•I then see a Microsoft screen with a horizontal animation bar showing
bootup progress, with "Microsoft Corporation" below it.
•After a few seconds of that, the screen goes black and the HD stops activity.

I ran the diagnostics in the Boot setup and they came out clean.

What could be wrong with Vista that it leaves me at a blank screen after a
few seconds of the startup routine?

 

[On the Bridge]

press F8 when booting and try getting into SAFE MODE

you can then try a system restore to the time before this happened


tell me if this helps

--
50 Ways to leave your Vista....

CHORUS:

You just format the drive , Clive
Get a New Mac , Jack
Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Boot from a *nix, Jix
You don't need to discuss much
Install XP, Lee
And get yourself free

 

[AlexB]

Is it possible that you are too impatient and do not allow Vista to install
a few updates? I has happened to me quite a few times before I realized what
was going on. I am way too impetuous, when the screen goes blank for a
couple of minutes, it seems like an eternity for me, so I would turn the
system off.

Something like this may happen after some major software changes. There
should be also malware option to consider.

Try F8, of course, as that On the Brink anti-Vista crusader suggested. It
may get you into the safe mode. Choose Safe Mode with Internet. Once there,
check ALL error messages in the event log, copy them to a text file and post
them here. They will tell you if there is any problem on a fundamental
level.

 

[On the Bridge]

I am way too impetuous
It comes as a package with your universal arrogant and immature nature...

I have killfiled you on XP, but darn... not in vista... so I stumbled upon
your post...

Have to fix that soon, without you this newsgroup is a better place.

 

[kdanieli]

Thanks for the advice.
At first when I tried to get in to SAFE MODE, I got an error at

LOADED: C:\windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys
Please wait....

I googled this file and found others with the issue but haven't figured out
the best solution yet.


At some other point, I believe that I did get into SAFE MODE but not sure how.

I am currently getting stuck at the same point, crcdisk.sys, when I try SAFE
MODE.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[kdanieli]

Thanks. I did wait a long time many times and the disk activity simply
stops. You are correct about it taking a long time at updates, but this is
not an update.

There is not "SAFE MODE with Internet" but there is "with networking"
but I cannot get into SAFE mode as it stops at the driver cfcdrive.sys

 

[kdanieli]

To clarify, the time that I did get into SAFE MODE, it was when booting from
the Vista Install DVD.

After booting from the DVD, I tried to do a System Restore and it told me
that there are errors on the C: drive. When I tried to repair the disk
errors, it just stops without ever accessing the HD. It also does not go
anywhere when I try to Repair or INstall Vista ...it just stops.

Now when I go into the Load Drivers option, I CAN navigate the HD with
ease...it finds all the partitions and directories. The diagnostic tests of
the HD from the BIOS do not dectect any errors on the HD. So the HD is there
and is readable, but there is something stopping the OS from loading.


What do you make of this?

Thanks

 

[On the Bridge]

Yes, you should do a system restore using the VISTA DVD

you basically start the computer with the dvd and select from the repair
options to do a system restore

see this tutorial

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial142.html



tell me if this helps


--
50 Ways to leave your Vista....

CHORUS:

You just format the drive , Clive
Get a New Mac , Jack
Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Boot from a *nix, Jix
You don't need to discuss much
Install XP, Lee
And get yourself free

 

[Jerry Hughes]

That's happened to me before with my E 1705. Once I got so tired of waiting
I simply unplugged the power and started from scratch---loaded Windows the
usual way. But yes, when the screen has gone black on my computer, I have
waited and new updates have installed. Good luck,

Jerry

 

[John Barnes]

You may be having a problem with your video card driver. Try to install
the latest driver in safe mode or at least delete the current driver so it
will default to the basic driver. Have you tried low resolution mode
startup. If that works, that would also suggest a video driver. Have you
tried the check disk chkdsk.exe command from the command prompt on the
DVD? That is very time consuming and you can use the ? for options.
Start-up repair can sometimes also resolve some of these types of problems.

 

[kdanieli]

When I boot from the Vista DVD, I can not do either a repair or restore. It
just stops accessing the HD and stops the process.

I can, however, navigate all 3 partitions on the HD using the Command Prompt
or the Load Drivers (windows-like GUI navigation) when booting from the DVD.
The HD passes the diagnostic tests. So, there are some good indicators for
the HD.

I'm still stuck.

 

[badyankeepilot2]

Thanks for the suggestions. I cannot get fully into Safe Mode. I can
get to a command prompt though.

I went into low resolution mode, but it did not make a difference

from the command prompt, C:\>chkdsk ? stopped the command module. It
returned no response and did not break at CTRL+C. C:\>chkdsk.exe also
hung it.

Repair and Restore do not work - they just hang. Thanks ..
any other ideas?

 

[badyankeepilot2]

I am the OP, kdanieli.

The "Safe Mode" command prompt that I access from the System Recovery
Options dialog starts me in X:\Sources>

Typing chkdsk [Enter] from there yields: "The type of the file
system is NTFS." and then it just stops as well.

 

[On the Bridge]

If nothing works, I suggest you download a linux live CD like PCLINUXOS 2007
that will permit you to access all your drives and data, back up the
information you need

http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=28

You boot with that linux cd and the drives are mounted.. you can then move
the data to an external drive or flash drive or even the network if you have
one...

after everything is backuped, reinstall Vista

--
50 Ways to leave your Vista....

CHORUS:

You just format the drive , Clive
Get a New Mac , Jack
Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Boot from a *nix, Jix
You don't need to discuss much
Install XP, Lee
And get yourself free

I am the OP, kdanieli.

The "Safe Mode" command prompt that I access from the System Recovery
Options dialog starts me in X:\Sources>

Typing chkdsk [Enter] from there yields: "The type of the file
system is NTFS." and then it just stops as well.

You may be having a problem with your video card driver. Try to install
the latest driver in safe mode or at least delete the current driver so
it
will default to the basic driver. Have you tried low resolution mode
startup. If that works, that would also suggest a video driver. Have
you
tried the check disk chkdsk.exe command from the command prompt on
the
DVD? That is very time consuming and you can use the ? for options.
Start-up repair can sometimes also resolve some of these types of
problems.

 

[John Barnes]

using the chkdsk /? should give you the options you can use.

I am the OP, kdanieli.

The "Safe Mode" command prompt that I access from the System Recovery
Options dialog starts me in X:\Sources>

Typing chkdsk [Enter] from there yields: "The type of the file
system is NTFS." and then it just stops as well.

You may be having a problem with your video card driver. Try to install
the latest driver in safe mode or at least delete the current driver so
it
will default to the basic driver. Have you tried low resolution mode
startup. If that works, that would also suggest a video driver. Have
you
tried the check disk chkdsk.exe command from the command prompt on
the
DVD? That is very time consuming and you can use the ? for options.
Start-up repair can sometimes also resolve some of these types of
problems.

 

[AlexB]

Killfile me here. I've never ever posted anything in XP. You are an idiot.
To be so confused and disoriented is a sign of complete degradation.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Killfile me here. I've never ever posted anything in XP. You are an idiot.

I knew you were new to the internet, but not *that* new. You never posted
on XP, hey?

ss.

 

[John]

best thing to do is use delpart and reformat, or use something else other
than m/s o/s. be careful using delpart. there are no answers in the entire
blog except using a domain controller to access what ever needs to be
fixed......crcdisk.sys