I was attempting to edit authui.dll, when I restarted my computer I got a totally black screen. Now everyone seems to have a hard time understanding this. When I start my computer up I get a black screen, no matter if it's a normal started up or in safe mode. I'm totally unable to login or do anything, the screen turns black before anything comes up. Does anyone know what I should do.
Hi niotic,
Do you have your Win 7 DVD or Win 7 64bit recovery disc?
Boot from your windows dvd/recovery disk and run a system file check to replace the original files -
SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot
Check your drive is C and type:
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows
You should get a message after scan saying windows resource protection has sucessfully repaired some files.
Type exit and click restart.
If you dont have a recovery disc:
System Repair Disc - Create
Post back any progress
Cheers
Dave
Unfortunately I do not have a disk. So I'd like to try the usb option. But I cannot find a place to get this .iso boot thing. I dont even know what it is and even less so what to look for. Could you please give me some insight? I really need my computer back online.
Hi,
Firstly make sure you motherboard is capable of booting a USB drive,
if not your computer won't be able to make use of this bootable USB.
You can change the boot priority in the BIOS.
Please look at Step 1 and Step 2 of this tutorial here:
Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7
The Win 7 install (SP1) ISO is there and also the tool to install it to a USB drive.
Then follow my first instructions.
Cheers
Dave
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