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Well... I thought I'd solved it. I did everything (how I thought was) sensibly; I first of all went into device management and downloaded and installed drivers for all of the unknown devices. I then started Windows Update running. I logged in and relplied to this thread and sat around for the updates to complete. I restarted the computer for the updates to take effect, and I got another black screen. I restarted, noticed I wasn't even allowed in safe mode anymore and chose startup repair. It failed, so I rebooted, went back into start up repair and had to add the drivers for the HDD again. Startup repair worked and I'm now on again (not safe mode) but I've no idea how long I've got until it breaks again. I guess I'll go as long as I can without turning it off so it doesn't break. While I was on the first time I saved an image of the computer on my D:\ drive, but that was also inaccessible. I'm going to take another image and put it on a USB stick for swift recovery.
Also, my computer is default to minimum resolution. I can change it but is it normal to default to minimum resolution? It doesn't seem right.