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Blacks screen with cursor when trying to boot up Windows 7
I have never had this issue occur to me before with owning my computer for about a year and half now. I had my computer on for a few days without shutting it off and one night I decided to turn it off to install new windows updates. When I went to turn it on the next morning it loaded up to the Windows 7 logo then after that a black screen with my mouse cursor appeared. I thought maybe it had to take some time to install the new updates but i came back an hour later and noticed the black screen was still there. So I held my power button down to manually reset it and tried to boot up Windows 7 in Safe Mode. I tried this numerous times and received the same problem with the black screen.
I also have tried the other two options of Safe Mode I have looked on these forums and tried a few methods with using my Windows 7 Installation Cd for the System Recovery Options. I ran the Startup Repair to find out that it "could not detect a problem". I viewed the Diagnosis and repair details and this is what i have:
After looking at this i was puzzled that it show this as successful. I also tried to System Restore to an earlier point in my system while trying to do that i would receive an error like this:Code:Startup Repair Diagnosis and repair log ---------------------------------------------- Last Successful boot time: 10/18/2011 6:10:50 PM (GMT) Number of repair attempts: 1 Session details --------------------------------- System Disk = \Device\Hardisk0 Windows Directory = D:\Windows AutoChk Run = 0 Number of root causes = 1 Test Performed: ------------------------------ Name: Check for updates Result: Completed successfully. Error Code = 0x0 Time taken = 0 ms Test Performed: ----------------------------- Name: System disk test Result: completed Successfully. Error Code = 0x0 Time taken = 0ms Test Performed: ----------------------------- Name: Disk Failure Diagnosis Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 0 ms Test Performed: ---------------------------- Name: Disk metadata test Result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 16ms Test Performed: ------------------------------- Name: Target OS test Result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time Taken: = 47 ms Test Performed: ----------------------------- Name: Volume content check Result: completed successfully. error code = 0x0 Time taken: 202 ms Test Performed: ----------------------------- Name: Boot manager diagnosis Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 47 ms Test Performed: --------------------------------- Name: System boot log Diagnosis Result: completed Successfully. error code = 0x0 Time taken = 0 ms Test Performed: -------------------------------------- Name: Even log diagnosis Result: Completed Successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 281 ms Test Performed: ------------------------------------- Name: internal state check Result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 16 ms Test performed: ----------------------------------- Name: boot status test Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 0ms Root cause found: --------------------------------- Boot status indicates that the OS booted Successfully.
I was not sure if i received this error because of the problem i am having with the Black screen issue or if it was because I never did a system restore manually I had thought maybe Windows 7 did it automatically?Code:System Restore failed to extract the file (D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.60531.0\cs\Microsoft.VisualBasic.resources.dll) from the restore point. An unspecified error occurred During System Restore. (0x80070017)
Some of my specs on my PC
Nvidia GeForce GTS450
6GB RAM PC2 6400 Gold series
Intel Phenom 2 Quad Core processor
ASUS M4A785-M Motherboard
Windows 7 Professional
Two 500GB WD Caviar Hard drives set up for a RAID 0
Last edited by chrissww; 18 Oct 2011 at 14:32. Reason: code boxes