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Screen blinks off at bootup
Much obliged if anyone can help me out on what's going
wrong with my bootup sequence. I lent a computer to my son who recently returned it to me. Now, it doesn't boot properly. In a nutshell, here's what happens: the start-up sequence progresses to a point where my computer screen just blinks and then goes off. While disk activity continues, I can't tell what's going on. The Windows GUI doesn't appear. I'm pretty sure that Windows loads to completion because, after the disk access noise finishes, I can press the Start button on the keyboard and shut down properly by hitting "U" and [enter]--even though I can't see what's happening. So, here's what I did: AFter poring over my Windows manuals, I tried to diagnose the problem. PRessing F8 on a reboot, I selected the option to create a bootlog file in order to see what was failing to load. However, upon rebooting in safe mode and searching for the bootlog.txt file, my computer wasn't able to find it. One more try: I rebooted again and opted for step-by-step confirmation of the start-up sequence. Everything went fine until the computer got to loading the WIN drivers. Shortly after that process began, the screen blinked and went off. I'm glad I've somewhat isolated the problem, but I don't know what to do next. Can anyone provide any leads? Arsenio |
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Screen blinks off at bootup
Can you boot to safe mode?
"Arsenio Oloroso" wrote in message ... Much obliged if anyone can help me out on what's going wrong with my bootup sequence. I lent a computer to my son who recently returned it to me. Now, it doesn't boot properly. In a nutshell, here's what happens: the start-up sequence progresses to a point where my computer screen just blinks and then goes off. While disk activity continues, I can't tell what's going on. The Windows GUI doesn't appear. I'm pretty sure that Windows loads to completion because, after the disk access noise finishes, I can press the Start button on the keyboard and shut down properly by hitting "U" and [enter]--even though I can't see what's happening. So, here's what I did: AFter poring over my Windows manuals, I tried to diagnose the problem. PRessing F8 on a reboot, I selected the option to create a bootlog file in order to see what was failing to load. However, upon rebooting in safe mode and searching for the bootlog.txt file, my computer wasn't able to find it. One more try: I rebooted again and opted for step-by-step confirmation of the start-up sequence. Everything went fine until the computer got to loading the WIN drivers. Shortly after that process began, the screen blinked and went off. I'm glad I've somewhat isolated the problem, but I don't know what to do next. Can anyone provide any leads? Arsenio |
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Screen blinks off at bootup
Steve,
Thanks for responding. I think I've actually solved the problem. Following the suggestion given in another posting to this newsgroup, I booted in safe mode and ran scanreg /fix from the command prompt. I don't know exactly what happened, but that did the trick. -----Original Message----- Can you boot to safe mode? "Arsenio Oloroso" wrote in message ... Much obliged if anyone can help me out on what's going wrong with my bootup sequence. I lent a computer to my son who recently returned it to me. Now, it doesn't boot properly. In a nutshell, here's what happens: the start-up sequence progresses to a point where my computer screen just blinks and then goes off. While disk activity continues, I can't tell what's going on. The Windows GUI doesn't appear. I'm pretty sure that Windows loads to completion because, after the disk access noise finishes, I can press the Start button on the keyboard and shut down properly by hitting "U" and [enter]--even though I can't see what's happening. So, here's what I did: AFter poring over my Windows manuals, I tried to diagnose the problem. PRessing F8 on a reboot, I selected the option to create a bootlog file in order to see what was failing to load. However, upon rebooting in safe mode and searching for the bootlog.txt file, my computer wasn't able to find it. One more try: I rebooted again and opted for step-by- step confirmation of the start-up sequence. Everything went fine until the computer got to loading the WIN drivers. Shortly after that process began, the screen blinked and went off. I'm glad I've somewhat isolated the problem, but I don't know what to do next. Can anyone provide any leads? Arsenio . |
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