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After "Starting Windows", Computer Unresponsive, Monitor Shuts Down
Apologies if there is another section better suited towards this but as I'm not really sure what the issue is, I couldn't really think of a specific category to put it in. And as I'm not really sure what the issue is, I hope the story of what I was doing when this happened and what I've done to my computer since then is helpful. So yesterday I sat down at my computer after watching a live stream on Twitch from bed, checked some Steam messages and attempted to message someone on Skype when my display randomly entered sleep mode. As I was actively using my computer, my display auto shutoff couldn't have been what was happening, and nothing I did would make my display re-enable. I wasn't really sure what to do at that point so I clicked the power button on my computer, and after a while nothing happened, so I held the power button down to force it off. I started my computer again, and it seemed fine until it got to where the log-in screen should be. After the "Starting Windows" screen, my display entered sleep mode again, as if it was receiving nothing from my computer anymore. I let it sit for a bit thinking maybe it would clear itself up but nothing happened, so I restarted my computer again, at which point it said windows had shut down improperly due to some error, and asked if I wanted to boot in safe mode, which I did. Safe mode made my computer work just fine, it would boot up reliably every time I booted into safe mode, but booting up normally would always result in my display just entering sleep mode as if my computer wasn't on anymore. A blue screen error box did pop up once, though I never actually saw any blue screen, I didn't write down the code and it hasn't brought that up again. I don't have automatic Windows updates enabled, so nothing I know of would have just up and installed, aside from my antivirus but it would have given me some sort of notice had it done so. I attempted to uninstall a few things, even doing a system restore. The system restore kind of worked once, but after restarting my computer, again the blank screen where log-in should be came back, and future restores, either to the same or earlier point wouldn't even let me boot up successfully once. Thinking this had to be a software issue, and being impatient, I decided to format and do a fresh Windows install. The first time seemed like it was going fine until I attempted to install Skype, at which point the blank screen came back. I did a fresh install again, and blank screened this time after installing only a few windows updates and my display drivers. Then again a fresh install and blank screen after only windows updates. Attempting to install anything causes the blank screens to come back. I tried on this install only installing display drivers, and during boot up I saw some messages about updates to the registry being made on the "Starting Windows" screen, though I hadn't installed any windows updates yet. And that's where I'm at now. Launching safe mode will always get my computer to boot up properly, but a normal boot always has my computer just blank screen. I had my speakers turn on and no sound is made that is usually made on the log-in screen, so it seems to me that Windows just breaks at that point. But I don't really know much about the technical side of computers. I'll be here for hours so if there are any questions any of you have I'll do my best to try and answer them. I really would like to be able to use my desktop again. ):
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