Black Screen after Windows loading screen.

Just started happening last week on my friend's laptop. It sticks on the loading screen for ages (like 5 minutes) then just goes black without ever showing the login screen.

It's running Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit. Works in safe mode and have done a virus scan using AVG and couldn't find anything. Done a memory check but that seems to be fine. Tried updating windows in safe mode but the Windows Update won't open.

Tried doing a system restore but it failed. Tried using sfc /scannow in safremode but that said there was nothing wrong. Tried disabling the graphics card but that didn't make a difference.

The computer didn't come with a windows cd so tried downloading "Windows 7 Home Premium x86 SP1 U (media refresh)" Windows 7 Direct Download Links and then doing a Repair Install using the this guide Repair Install but on step 9 it says "to upgrade you need to be running windows 7 with service pack 1 installed..."

Any help would be much appreciated.

joshhunt,

See if any of these links are of help...

Why is my screen black when I start Windows 7?

Windows 7 Black Screens of Death for Some AMD/ATI GPUs - Softpedia

windows 7 black screen after login, no desktop show up

Windows 7 Loads to a black screen. Whats the - Microsoft Answers

JMH said:

joshhunt,

See if any of these links are of help...

Why is my screen black when I start Windows 7?

Windows 7 Black Screens of Death for Some AMD/ATI GPUs - Softpedia

windows 7 black screen after login, no desktop show up

Windows 7 Loads to a black screen. Whats the - Microsoft Answers

1. Tried this, the registry seemed to be ok and unfortunately I can't do a system restore as there in no restore point.

2. Don't think this applies, Windows 7 has already been installed and has been working fine for over a year.

3. Has the same solution as the first one. Also in his problem the screen wasn't going blank till after login.

4. Just had a link to the first one as the solution.

So unfortunately no luck though thanks very much for your help. If you think of anything else let me know though I have a feeling I might just have to reinstall windows.

FYI
Clean Install Windows 7

JMH said:

FYI
Clean Install Windows 7

This is a bit off topic but any idea how to do an install from HDDRecovery partition? It is a Toshiba Satellite Pro.

joshhunt said:

JMH said:

FYI
Clean Install Windows 7

This is a bit off topic but any idea how to do an install from HDDRecovery partition? It is a Toshiba Satellite Pro.

Is this what you mean?

How to recover a Toshiba notebook with the HDD recovery procedure

JMH said:

joshhunt said:

JMH said:

FYI
Clean Install Windows 7

This is a bit off topic but any idea how to do an install from HDDRecovery partition? It is a Toshiba Satellite Pro.

Is this what you mean?

How to recover a Toshiba notebook with the HDD recovery procedure

Yea that's the one. Thanks heaps, after a bit of difficulty reinstalling windows I've got it working again.

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