Blank Screen at start of installation

Hi

I was wondering if you could help me. I have a Acer laptop that is currently running build 7068 (specs available at the side there for full info). Since build 7000 I have been doing update installs, which have worked find (save a few glitches here and there), and I wanted to do a clean install of build 7100. However, when i boot from CD or USB pen, as soon as the Windows Logo disappears, the mouse cursor appears for a second (against a black screen), and then all I get is a completely blank screen, no disc accesses, CD accesses, nothing.

If I do the install from within Windows (again a clean install), the files copy across okay, but as soon as it rebooots during expanding, I get the same again, a blank screen and nada!!!!

I'm not sure if it's the graphics card at fault, or what, but surely if the beta build had enough drivers, this should. Could anyone suggest anything that may help?

Thank you.

Hi

Thanks for your help, I forgot to mention I've tried two different images from two different sources, and both have the same problem unfortunately.

Yeah, at least if there was some text or soemthing I could at least try and fix it, but without anything, it's a no go.

I figured it out, and thought I'd let you all know in case anyone else has this issue. It was my keyboard, I had an external one connected which must have been malfunctioning or something, as once I disconnected it, I was in business, and everything went smoothly.

Help. I have the same problem. Windows 7 installs and goes to load up the final screen, then it says shutdown and that is that. It boots up again and I only see a black screen with the cursor in the top left. I have waited and it stays like it. I have tried everything.

I have reduced two monitors down to one. I have unplugged all usb devices. I have tried booting in safe mode.

I have just realised that my mouse is USB. Could this be the problem? Also I have been told on another site that my recovery partition is causing the problem. Any ideas?

By the way I have an Acer 5920 G, Vista 32 (I want to dual boot win7) and an ATI Radeon HD 3470 256mb.

JohnnyZenith said:

Help. I have the same problem. Windows 7 installs and goes to load up the final screen, then it says shutdown and that is that. It boots up again and I only see a black screen with the cursor in the top left. I have waited and it stays like it. I have tried everything.

I have reduced two monitors down to one. I have unplugged all usb devices. I have tried booting in safe mode.

I have just realised that my mouse is USB. Could this be the problem? Also I have been told on another site that my recovery partition is causing the problem. Any ideas?

By the way I have an Acer 5920 G, Vista 32 (I want to dual boot win7) and an ATI Radeon HD 3470 256mb.

JZ

You didnt say if yopu were able to boot into safe mode. If you can could you go into event viewer and go to windoes log >app tab and look for errors relating to the problem. If not have you tried a repair install?

Ken

Hi,

No I cannot go into safe mode. You mean into Windows 7 safe mode? No I can't do that during the installion process obviously and certainly not after it has installed as I just get the black screen and cannot get any boot options. I'm not sure what a repair install is but I think I may have tried it. Hmm how do I do that if not? I expect it won't work.

Thanks zigzag