Windows 7 Black Screen.

DasUberEdward

Whenever I try to boot up windows 7 I end up getting a black screen before the logon screen. I can use safe mode with networking just fine but unfortunately my dual boot of Ubuntu is afflicted by the same problem that the windows boot has and gives me an error about running chkdsk. So I think this is the same black screen that was documented by prevx a few months ago and it's malware causing the registry to not quite recognize the partition properly.

Problem is their fix says I should just go to task manager and head to their website but task manager doesn't work. I tried to download the fix in safe mode and install it but that didn't work.

Any ideas?

Oh and windows update isn't loading for me.

Movitz

I deleted some shitty HP drive for god knows what on my laptop and it started giving me a blue screen just before the logon. I just used a restore point to go back. I was pretty surprised that the restore system worked, it just seemed like some new crappy MS invention like all the other 5 fucktons of programs that are supposed to make your life in windows easier, safer and non-customizable.

Eeeer, where was I? Oh, yes. Try a restore point, if they effect software packages for drivers they might remove that malware as well.

DasUberEdward

It completed but no luck.

Movitz

Is there no fix that can be booted from a CD or USB? You can run a repair prompt from windows CDs, maybe you can run the fix.exe from there?

DasUberEdward

I'm running the RC so I have to see if I still have the disc I used. Otherwise I guess it's go go student discount.

DasUberEdward

Found my disc.

But now when I try to do a custom install on the partition I get this

"setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition"



I really don't want to press the format button as I made a really neat song last night.

Movitz

If you really care about not formatting, wouldn't there be a way of installing and dual booting, let's say XP, on whatever partition and running the fix from XP? This would of course leave you with an XP install taking up space and clogging your drive, and it's a pretty tedious process.

All those times I've had trouble with virus I've just purged with tactical HDD nuking, i.e. total reformat, so I'm just reaching for solutions here.

DasUberEdward

Yeah I think i'm just going to transfer some important files to my other HD and format the thing to be done with it.

DasUberEdward

Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition.

BUT I JUST FORMATTED THE HD

So win 7 installer realizes the HD is there. It sees it. It formated it. But uh. . .this is happening.

Cyvros

Oh, well, shit. Sorry, man. If something like this happens again, you can use a Linux Live CD (like Ubuntu or SystemRescueCD if you want something stripped down) and transfer stuff over to an external HDD or flash drive. I had to do this once with my mum's computer.

Only I didn't double check and all her songs from P onwards disappeared. :?

DasUberEdward

I don't think i'm out of the woods yet. So fresh install of windows 7.

I try to change my resolution and it's back to black screen ville. I'm installing the nvidia drivers and the updates now but my goodness this is ridiculous. Video card problem?

edit: again i'm in safe mode. 1280 x 1024 works just fine here. Going to try to boot up normally and possibly pull my hair out if i'm back to the black screen.

DasUberEdward

Yeah. Black screen again. There is nothing on the PC other than the windows updates and the nvidia display drivers. I guess i'll try to get rid of those.

Baffling. Really. Absolutely baffling.

DeShadowC

DUE get a disk or cd or whatever based off the type of drive you have and reinstall the MBR or master boot record. Then unpartition the drive completely, repartition it then format again.

DasUberEdward

No luck. Still suck in 1024x768 unless I use safe mode. I'm totally lost. If I drop the resolution I get the normal dialog box with the 15 second revert. If I go above 1024x768 the screen just goes black and stays that way. This is only when the system is started normally. If I boot up in safe mode I can use any resolution I like. Going to install drivers for the motherboard and reinstall the nvidia drivers I guess.

edit: oh wait format it again after fixing the MBR?

DeShadowC

Try the different drivers first then yes. Mbr, partition, format, fresh install.

DasUberEdward

Well installed the drivers and it went back to step 1.

Black screen. No cursor. So now i'm in safe mode again and wow. I think i'm just going to install vista. Do the mbr thing and format. It's so funny that safe mode runs just fine.

DeShadowC

I mainly think its not a simple driver/software issue due to your ubuntu boot giving a chkdisk error.

DasUberEdward

Unfortunately that's gone now

would you suggest I download Ubuntu again and see what it can do? Or just go for the reformat and reinstall again?

DasUberEdward

Alrighty then.

fixed the mbr. formatted. installed windows vista. tried 1280X1024. Worked just fine. Made a new partition. Installed windows 7 on the new partition. Tried 1280X1024.

Black screen.

I am at a complete loss. I've never encountered a problem that has survived so many system wipes. Anyway i'm running Vista now but goodness windows 7 has spoiled me.

Movitz

How long did you have win7 running properly in the first case? Maybe there are some weird issues with your hardware and win7? My first thought was that your HDD is fried but since Vista seems to be working I'm guessing it's ok.

DasUberEdward

Movitz wrote: »

How long did you have win7 running properly in the first case? Maybe there are some weird issues with your hardware and win7? My first thought was that your HDD is fried but since Vista seems to be working I'm guessing it's ok.

Pretty much since the RC was released. So what's that nearly half a year?

This really is the strangest thing. Everything was just fine and then I was looking for a driver or some such for my midi controller (axiom 49) and I believe I was doing somethings in Ableton lite and that's really the last software intensive bit I did. Hours after that I noticed no changes to the system and when I woke up the next morning I was in black screen-ville.

Vista is running just fine.

Movitz

The RC was never supposed to run forever if i remember correctly. I have no idea how it was supposed to react when time is up though. But since you can't reinstall it it's probably not that.

Can't you just get a new, cheap hdd and use it as the primary?

Cyvros

Movitz wrote: »

The RC was never supposed to run forever if i remember correctly. I have no idea how it was supposed to react when time is up though.

I believe it reboots every two hours. It seems it expires 1st June next year, too.

DasUberEdward

Cyvros wrote: »

Movitz wrote: »

The RC was never supposed to run forever if i remember correctly. I have no idea how it was supposed to react when time is up though.

I believe it reboots every two hours. It seems it expires 1st June next year, too.

Yeah it doesn't start the rebooting thing until next year. So it should be able to run without any complications still.

Right now I have vista up and running with no problem on the same HD. It's so weird.

DasUberEdward

Windows 7 has spoiled me so much. So here's a good question. If I were to buy Windows 7 now is there a chance the retail version is different in some way from the release candidate and it would work?

Or should I just stop being lame and buy a TB HD for Xmas and try that?

DasUberEdward

One last ditch effort to see if any new thoughts came up while the forum was locked down.

Bartholamue

I don't think it's that different.

matt has a problem

I had this problem with Vista actually. Everything installed fine, I'd get the Windows logo, it would show me the login screen for a brief second then go black. Every time. Over and over. I never could get it to work, or figure out what the problem was. I upgraded some hardware in the time between trying that and getting 7, and 7 hasn't given me any problems. Switched a motherboard and video card in that time. I don't know if that's what made the difference, but those are the only two things I changed.