Black screen w/ cursor at startup, no ctrl/alt/del

[darrrrrren]

Hi all,

I'm thinking right now it's an SSD corruption as nothing else makes sense. I haven't done any installing, downloading, or updating in about a week and after restarting today I got startup repair loading and telling me I had a corrupt registry.

It claimed to fix the problem and now when I boot up I get a black screen with cursor. Most threads tell you to hit ctrl-alt-del to launch task manager but ctrl-alt-del gives me nothing. After about 60s of this cursor my computer will auto-restart itself and repeat this process.

I've done about 3 system restores - all claim to be successful but do not fix the problem. I've also run chkdsk /f from startup repair command prompt which found problems and again, claimed to fix them but did not fix this boot problem.

This leads me to believe it's a corrupt SSD but I'd prefer to exercise all of my options before starting an RMA.

 

[Arc]

Welcome aboard, Darren.

First, you boot into http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/666-advanced-boot-options.html, choose "last known good configuration" and hit enter. See if it boots to anything or not.

If not, run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/139810-sfc-scannow-run-command-prompt-boot.html, and see the results.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219533-troubleshooting-windows-7-failure-boot.html

Let us know the situation after doing all those.

 

[darrrrrren]

Hi Arc,

Booting with the last known good configuration resulted the same - black screen with cursor.

I ended up just reinstalling as my SSD is just a boot drive with Chrome and Steam installed - I use my Linux partition on a separate HD for doing actual work.

Only thing I didn't end up trying was sfc, and perhaps I should have done that. Oh well.

 

[Arc]

Run SFC, if that also fail, we will need to think differently.

And, I guess the Linux is not configured as dual boot with windows?