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Windows 7 Black Screen Appearing Withing a Minute of Start Up
I know there's another thread and I've checked out the links posted for the Black Screen but none seem to work.
My promblem is, I shut down my computer earlier in the afternoon yesterday. I come back and turn it on and after running a minute or two, the fans are going like crazy and screen goes black, monitor goes to sleep. I manually hold down the power button, restart and choose the option to repair. Once again, after a minute or so fans start running hard, blacked out screen, monitor goes to sleep.
My husband has tried F8 and we've tried going back to a restore point. It will start and sound normal, but when the fans start to run hard we know the screen will go black. Opinions from various people I know and from websites are stating it's my ATI Radeon graphics card. We've even tested the RAM, yet within those two minutes after start up, monitor goes black and states no signal or it's sleeping. We've also tried numerous monitors, just for sake of process of elimination.
I can't get to the desktop, I can't get past anything no matter what option I choose. Could it truly be the graphics card? Or something worse, like the motherboard? Any help is appreciated, thank you!