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Screen blanks as Win7 starts up after POST then displays normally
This is a hardware problem or a Windows problem. I am writing on the problem machine.
I had a screen freeze and so rebooted. My components are old and even a power outage may happen
briefly as they do from the power company. So Power Down-- and power back up.
A blank black screen appears after POST so I know it is not the screen (working now.)
Then after an extended period of minutes I get the desktop of Win7.
In between I did a lot of the panic things like resetting CMOS and swapping
components. Shutting down at the power supply etc. Then I leave, come back and it's on.
Is this a behavior of Windows 7 running a check disk at startup? The same behavior repeated again
so it's consistent. Is there a way to check admin services or something for the blackout?
CPU-Z recognizes everything but the VGA video is onboard this older MSI 880GM-E41 and has some quirks over many years.