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Black Screen after Windows Logo - waits 2 minutes, then able to login
HI everyone
I am a noob here, so firstly can I say thanks in advance for any help you can give me on a frustrating problem. I also hope this is in the right place as it's not Blue screen, it's a black screen!
My System - custom build, Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.8GHz, DDR3 SDRAM, Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, FOXCONN Motherboard H55M-S and Nvidia GeForce GTX 460.
So, I noticed a few days ago, all of a sudden, my PC started to get a black screen after the Windows loading animation. However, after about 2 minutes it does eventually take me to the login screen where I can get access and everything appears to be in order.
I have tried this in Safe Mode and the same thing happens.
I have followed some of the hints on this forum about running tools and so far I have the following (but these have not been run in safe mode):
AVAST - no issues
SPYBOT - no issues
MALWARE BYTES - no issues
SFC SCANNOW - no issues
DISABLED Graphics card - no change after reboot
UNINSTALLED graphics card - no change
REMOVED USB Hub - no change after reboot
DISCONNECTED Network cable and rebooted - no change (I am wired LAN not wireless) I thought the network may be timing out.
Ran a boot Log and found :
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vga.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\srv.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
I have also used Soluto to see what the boot times were and only two programs were taking a long time to boot so I removed it from the start up process which were Spotify and NVIDIA Experience centre. It made no difference.
Additionally, I noticed on some occasions the machine boots and after the black screen the display seems to be at very low resolution, some very funny colours and also displaying at 800 x 600.
I hope someone on here can help - the only one thing I have not tried is a system restore as I am hesitant in getting something wrong.
Any help would be much appreciated. Trying to give you as much info as I can!
Thanks
Jon